Information Centre Library

This section will eventually contain a selection of relevant links and articles relating to ME.

 

Wessely's Way: Rhetoric or Reason?

An article from Margaret Williams and Professor Malcolm Hooper detailing the continuing misinformation being presented about ME.

April 2008 - by Margaret Williams/Malcolm Hooper

 

Essential investigations for people with ME

Comments on Identification and treatment of symptoms associated with inflammation in medically ill patients

January 2008 - by Margaret Williams

 

Exploratory Subgrouping in CFS: Infectious, Inflammatory, and Other

 From the Journal of IiME Vol 1 Issue 1

May 2007 - by Dr. Leonard Jason

 

The physiology of exercise intolerance in patients with myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) and the utility of graded exercise therapy
From the IiME Response to the NICE Draft Guidelines

November 2006 - by S. Pierce and P.W. Pierce

  CBT, GET And Human Rights:

From the IiME Response to the NICE Draft Guidelines

October 2006 - by R. Mitchell and V. Mitchell

  Statistics on DLA and IB for PwME
From the August newsletter
Statistics on Disabled Living Allowance and Incapacity Benefit for UK people with ME.
  Dr Byron Hyde's Nightingale ME Definition

Produced by Dr. Hyde for the Gibson Inquiry and the Invest in ME - ME/CFS  Conference 2007.

A description of what ME is and what it isn't.  Click on the image to the left open this very useful document.

Click here to read more.

  What is ME - What is CFS? Information for Clinicians and Lawyers

December 2001 by E.P.Marshall, Margaret Williams and Malcolm Hooper

Click here to read more.

  Saying NO to CBT  

Designed to support M.E. sufferers who choose not to attend the current NHS Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis clinics which have been set up across the country.

Click here to read more.

  Invest in ME Conference presentations in Journal of Clinical Pathology  

The presentations from the International ME Conference in London during May 2006 have now been adapted and published in the Journal of Clinical Pathology.

Click here to read more.

 
Dr. Byron Hyde's Little Red Book

Produced by Dr. Hyde for the Invest in ME - ME Conference 2006.

A description of what ME is and what it isn't.  Click on the image to the left open this very useful document.

  Canadian Guidelines Accepted by NHS ME Doctors

Two NHS doctors treating ME patients have endorsed the Canadian Guidelines. Click here to read more.
  Advance in the Biomedical Investigation of M.E
From MERGE/Neil Abbot and Dr. Vance Spence
Many thanks to ME Research UK for allowing us to print this upbeat status of progress in biomedical research. The last paragraph of this article is telling and describes how we feel at IIME - working with the national biomedical charity for ME. Click on MERGE for a link to their excellent site.
  Canadian Diagnostic Criteria
From the Journal of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
A description of the important Canadian definition for diagnosis of ME.
  Professor Malcolm Hooper - Engaging with ME
From Invest in ME articles
A summary of the lecture by Professor Hooper organised by Invest in ME in 2005.
  Dr J Gordon Parish, Patron of ME Research UK
A Review of The Clinical Syndrome Variously Called Benign Myalgic Encephalomyelitis, Iceland Disease and Epidemic Neuromyasthenia by ED Acheson (American Journal of Medicine, 1959)
Epidemics with ME.

 

Rather than repeat all other documentation on research it was felt better to link to ME Research UK's site (with their permission) to show their Research Database of publications about ME. Click on the link here to ME Research UK Research Publications Database