a decade of campaigning amid medical stagnation
As part of the Canary and the Chronic Collaboration’s Amplify training programme, founder of ME Foggy Dog and Stripy Lightbulb CIC Sally Callow writes for us on her 10 years…
As part of the Canary and the Chronic Collaboration’s Amplify training programme, founder of ME Foggy Dog and Stripy Lightbulb CIC Sally Callow writes for us on her 10 years…
It doesn’t really matter who gets elected during this years general election for the 1.9 million people living with long Covid or the hundreds of thousands living with myalgic encephalomyelitis…
A council in Northamptonshire has launched a recovery scheme for people living with long Covid. However, the 12-week long Covid exercise programme is centred round incremental exercise. Of course, this…
It’s day nine of the general election campaign and soon-to-be “former prime minister” Sunak has scuppered any pretence there ever was that he’s a decent, down-to-earth, every-day bloke. Not that…
The BBC has exposed how an insidious group of predatory charlatans have been gaslighting long Covid patients. It revolves around a pseudoscientific treatment known as the ‘Lightning Process’. It would…
A groundbreaking international and community-driven long Covid and myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME/CFS) conference – ‘Unite To Fight’ – is about to take place for the first time. Already, the event is…
A new campaign seeks to shake up the dire state of funding for biomedical research into myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME). In time for ME Awareness Day on 12 May, a volunteer…
New government statistics have confirmed what millions of people already knew. Specifically, this was that cases of long Covid across the UK are rampant and ever on the rise –…
The NHS killed Sophia Mirza on 15 November 2005. Sophia lived with myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME/CFS). In July 2003, psychiatrists got cops to smash the door into Sophia’s home down and…
A campaign group will be targeting UK media outlets during global ME Awareness Day – calling out what it calls the corporate media’s systemic “mis-and-disinformation” relating to this chronic illness.…
Friday 15 March was global Long Covid Awareness Day. In London, a campaign group brought together other activists, patients, and advocates to raise awareness of this cruel, debilitating disease. However,…
On Friday 15 March campaigners from Not Recovered UK – who all either live with long Covid, myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME, sometimes known as chronic fatigue syndrome, CFS), or are impacted…