Further Articles
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27th August 2008
Medication and ME/CFS?
Margaret Williams
17th August 2008
More Zombiefication of ME/CFS?
Margaret Williams
15th August 2008
Zombie Science in ME/CFS?
Margaret Williams
25th May 2008
Faculties Failure?
Margaret Williams
24th April 2008
Concerns about the RSM Conference on 28th April 2008 on “CFS”
Margaret Williams
See Also:
25th April 2008
A Follow-up to “Concerns about the RSM Conference”
Margaret Williams
22nd March 2008
Wessely’s Way: Rhetoric or Reason?
Malcolm Hooper Margaret Williams
10th March 2008
EVIDENCE OF EFFICACY?
Margaret Williams
4th March 2008
Deliberate Deceit or Inexcusable Ignorance?
Margaret Williams
26th January 2008
Breaking a Silence
By Gurli Bagnall
“You only have power over people as long as you
don’t take everything away from them.
But when you’ve robbed a man of everything, he’s no longer
in your power - he’s free again.”
Alexander Solzhenistyn
16th January 2008
Essential investigations for people with ME/CFS?
Margaret Williams
2nd January 2008
More potential dangers of the UK NICE Guideline on “CFS/ME”
for people with ME/CFS?
Margaret Williams
18th November 2007
National Instiute of Health and Clinical Excellence "CFS/ME" Guidelines discussed on BBC Breakfast News
Stephen Ralph
19 November, 2007
An open letter to Professor Peter White
By Gurli Bagnall
New Zealand
6th November 2007
Whiter than white?
Margaret Williams
24th October 2007
NICE: GIGA (GARBBAGE-IN, GARBAGE-OUT)?
Margaret Williams
12th October 2007
UNUM UNITED?
Eileen Marshall and Margaret Williams
UNUM Investigated on the BBC 10 O clock News - 6th November 2007
(6.92Mb wmv video file)
21st September 2007
COERCION AS CURE?
Eileen Marshall Margaret Williams
SEPTEMBER 2007
CORPORATE COLLUSION?
The UK Medical Research Council has a secret file on Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) that contains records and correspondence since at least 1988; the file is held in the UK Government Archive at Kew and cannot be opened until 2023. This present document is an overview of the misinformation and contradictions about Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) that have pervaded some UK Departments of State and other agencies since 1988. It also considers the involvement of certain UK psychiatrists who have proven vested interests in the propagation of this misinformation that is contrary to world-wide scientific evidence and that for two decades has resulted in the medical abuse of UK patients with ME/CFS.
Professor Malcolm Hooper Eileen Marshall Margaret Williams
Contact address: malcolm.hooper@virgin.net
29th August 2007
Comments on the NICE Guideline on “CFS/ME”
Margaret Williams
10th August 2007
Wessely, Woodstock and Warfare
Margaret Williams
20th July 2007
The Defiance of Science
Professor Malcolm Hooper and Margaret Williams
12th May 2007
Promises, Promises ?
Margaret Williams
1st March 2007
NICE Tactics
Margaret Williams
21st February 2007
BBC Radio Ulster ME Debate
19th February 2007
Facts from Florida
Margaret Williams
6th February 2007
Notes for NICE
Margaret Williams
5th December 2006
A response and Appreciation of the Gibson Inquiry Report
Malcolm Hooper
29th November 2006
A few facts about the Gibson Inquiry Report
Margaret Williams
26th November 2006
The Gibson Parliamentary Inquiry Report
Read a detailed summary of this report
at 10pm on Sunday 26th November 2006
Download a locked Adobe .pdf version here
View Horace Reid's Digest Format here
Read the report itself at the Gibson Inquiry Website
or download the full report in .pdf format directly from here
and read the Press Release here
19th November 2006
A Medical Morass
Margaret Williams
10th November 2006
Klimas, Wessely and NICE: Redefining CBT?
Margaret Williams
Some Concerns about the National Institute for Health & Clinical Excellence (NICE) Draft Guideline issued on 29th September 2006 on Diagnosis and Management of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome / Myalgic Encephalomyelitis in Adults and Children
Margaret Williams
(Nominated Respondent with The 25% ME Group for the Severely Affected)
Download and view the Adobe pdf version here
Update
23rd October 2006
Addendum
or download the pdf here
19th September 2006
Incessant Belief?
Eileen Marshall Margaret Williams
2nd September 2006
Compassion Control?
Margaret Williams
23rd August 2006
CBT in ME/CFS -- More Information
Eileen Marshall Margaret Williams
18th August 2006
ME Exists: True or False?
Eileen Marshall Margaret Williams
30th July 2006
An Action for ME Survey says that 80% of those asked said they approved of the service provided or "8 out of ten owners said their Cats preferred it......"
By Stephen Ralph
28th July 2006
An Open Letter to Ms Audrey Adcock
By Gurli Bagnall
19th July 2006
A Farewell Message for Professor Wessely?
Margaret Williams
17th July 2006
Informal notes on the issue of funding biomedical research into ME/CFS
Margaret Williams
13th July 2006
For the attention of the Gibson Inquiry
Eileen Marshall Margaret Williams
7th July 2006
STATEMENT FROM MARGARET WILLIAMS
6th July 2006
Concern about misinformation to the Gibson Inquiry
Margaret Williams
1st July 2006
Notes re the evidence of Raymond Perrin PhD to the Gibson Parliamentary
Inquiry into ME
Eileen Marshall Margaret Williams
17th June 2006
CIVILIZATION:
ANOTHER WORD FOR BARBARISM
By
Gurli Bagnall
16th June 2006
Inquest Implications?
Eileen Marshall and Margaret Williams
12th June 2006
A gleam of light at last?
Eileen Marshall Margaret Williams
25th May 2006
FURTHER TO MARSHALL AND WILLIAMS:
The Deified Doctor Syndrome (DDS)
By
Gurli Bagnall
24th May 2006
Response to Doctors’ Campaign Against Alternative Therapies
Eileen Marshall Margaret Williams
12th May 2006
Cognitive Impairment?
Eileen Marshall Margaret Williams
26th April 2006
Alice Green (UK) versus the CDC (USA)?
Eileen Marshall Margaret Williams
7 April, 2006
THE CHEMICAL PLAGUE
By
Gurli Bagnall
5th April 2006
Campaigning for research into Myalgic Encephalomyelitis
RiME
NHS 'CFS/ME' Centres Condemned
31st March 2006
Some of the abnormalities that have been demonstrated in ME/CFS
Eileen Marshall Margaret Williams
26th March 2006
Brief comments on the DWP proposed entry on “CFS/ME”
(version 8 of March 2006)
Margaret Williams
21st March 2006
More on the Myth?
Eileen Marshall Margaret Williams
17th March 2006
The Model of the Myth?
Eileen Marshall Margaret Williams
13th March 2006
The UK National Service Framework and ME/CFS
Margaret Williams
February 2006
FMS & CFS – An expert patient’s view
Rob Napier
13th February 2006
Letter to the Lancet
CFS, Benefits, & the Creation of Stigma
Ian McIlroy
5 February, 2006
MATTERS ARISING OUT OF THE WESSELY LECTURE AT GRESHAM COLLEGE.
By
Gurli Bagnall
3rd February 2006
Letter to the Lancet
Compassion Deficit Reciprocated
By Horace Reid
Date: 30th January 2006
From: gwsme4real@yahoo.co.uk
Report of London Protest against Simon Wessely on 25 Jan 2006
View
26th January 2006
Professor Hooper's letter to Gresham College
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28th January 2006
Comments from Professor Malcolm Hooper on the Gresham College lecture by Professor Simon Wessely entitled: “Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue: The true story of Gulf War Syndrome”
(delivered on 25th January 2006)
24th January 2006
Letter to Dr Kieran Walsh
re: How to put NICE guidelines into practice
Malcolm Hooper (Emeritus Professor of Medicinal Chemistry)
Eileen Marshall
Margaret Williams
20th January 2006
Pinching’s Perception?
Eileen Marshall
Margaret Williams
3rd December 2005
Somatization and somatoform disorders
Author(s):
Elena Garralda
doi: 10.1383/psyt.2005.4.8.97
Psychiatry
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Comment from
Stephen Ralph
FOR UK PARLIAMENTARY INQUIRY INTO ME/CFS
Chronological list of documents relevant to the Inquiry authored by
Professor Malcolm Hooper, Eileen Marshall and Margaret Williams
20th November 2005
Evidence-based Policy or Policy-based Evidence?
Professor Malcolm Hooper Eileen Marshall Margaret Williams
13th November 2005
BEFORE THE LIGHT DIES.
By
Gurli Bagnall
_______________________
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Dylan Thomas
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30th October 2005
Which Interventions are Helpful to Patients with ‘CFS/ME’?
A REVIEW OF THE EVIDENCE
Produced by ScotME
for the
CROSS PARTY PARLIAMENTARY GROUP on ME : August 2005
1st October 2005
A Personal Statement from Dr Charles Shepherd
10th September 2005
Unanswered Questions: do inconsistencies matter in medicine?
Margaret Williams
2nd September 2005
Proof Positive?
Eileen Marshall and Margaret Williams
Note: This is a long article and it may take some of you some considerable time and effort to read it but it is more than well worth the effort......
4th September 2005
More Proof Positive?
Eileen Marshall and Margaret Williams
31st August 2005
Following the post on Co-Cure ACT.MED: The Undeserving Sick on 30 August 2005 from Professor Michael Sharpe in which he claimed that comments he made in a public lecture in 1999 have been taken out of context, Margaret Williams has released her copy of Sharpe's actual lecture notes so that people may judge for themselves.
18th August 2005
ME: WHY NO ACCOUNTABILITY?
A synopsis for the UK Parliamentary Inquiry
Professor Malcolm Hooper Margaret Williams
13th August 2005
A FINAL FAREWELL TO THE PSYCHIATRIC FALLACY?
Margaret Williams
2nd August 2005
ME: Organic or Psychiatric --- Decision Time?
Eileen Marshall Margaret Williams
16th July 2005
Another Meadow?
Eileen Marshall and Margaret Williams
12th July 2005
Of concern to all, and in particular to sufferers of
ME/ICD-CFS, MCS, GWS and FM:
WHAT IS IT ABOUT PSYCHIATRY?
Gurli Bagnall
28th June 2005
Vade MEcum
(a
“vade mecum” is a small reference guide containing information
that is frequently consulted)
Eileen Marshall Margaret Williams
26th June 2005
Politically-modified Research
Eileen Marshall and Margaret WIlliams
19th June 2005
PRiME - Sending Us Around in Circles
Stephen Ralph
18th June 2005
12th June 2005
Evidence Based Psychiatry
Eileen Marshall and Margaret Williams
26th May 2005
WARNING: UK Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit on Mental Health
Eileen Marshall Margaret Williams
28th May 2005
Conflicting Concepts?
Eileen Marshall Margaret Williams
23rd May 2005
ME DVD Controversy
Professor Malcolm Hooper
17th May 2005
BBC Radio 4
Reform of Incapacity Benefit
Download .mp3 here
9th May 2005
Ellen Goudsmit PhD and the “London” criteria : THE FACTS
Margaret Williams
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Why is this Important?
A Personal View by
Stephen Ralph
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11th May 2005
Some Observations on the more important points made by
Miss Ellen Goudsmit PhD in her “formal response” of
10th May 2005
to concerns about the ‘London’ criteria
By Margaret Williams
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14th May 2005
The “London” criteria: QED
By Margaret Williams
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16th May 2005
The “London” criteria: 1990 versus 1993
By Margaret Williams
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18th May 2005
Correct Citation for the “London” criteria?
Margaret Williams
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19th May 2005
Rebuttal of misinformation about the “London” criteria
Margaret Williams
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21st May 2005
Ellen's Discrepancies..... again.
Stephen Ralph
7th May 2005
Megalomania in Modern Medicine?
Margaret Williams
4th May 2005
For the attention of All Members of Parliament - Old and New
Margaret Williams
29th April 2005
Vilified but Vindicated?
Malcolm Hooper Eileen Marshall Margaret Williams
26th April 2005
CDC Provides Clarification At Last
Margaret Williams
21st April 2005
High Standards at the MRC
By Eileen Marshall and Margaret Williams
15th April 2005
Profits Before Patients?
Eileen Marshall and Margaret Williams
29th March 2005
Science or Psychology?
Margaret
Williams
21st March 2005
MYALGIC ENCEPHALOMYELITIS (ME)
the impact
on sufferers: is health policy in Scotland on the right path?
This is a Briefing Paper that has been sent out to all Scottish MSP's via the Cross Party Group
5th March 2005
ME: who is attacking whom?
Eileen Marshall Margaret Williams
2nd March 2005
A Call for Help from the ME community
By
Stephen Ralph
2nd March 2005
More Medical Malfeasance in ME?
Eileen Marshall Margaret Williams
28th February 2005
RiME
Campaigning for Research into Myalgic Encephalomyelitis
APPG Chair supports use of Oxford Criteria
23rd February 2005
Problems and Solutions ?
Eileen Marshall Margaret Williams
22nd February 2005
Royal
Liverpool & Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust
Patient Care Trust Job Title
for a Trainee "Fatigue" Therapist
Epsom and St Helier NHS Trust
Job title:
Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist
in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Management
22nd February 2005
My Question to Professor Colin Blakemore
CEO of the Medical Research Council on the
BBC Radio Five Live Simon Mayo Programme
13th February 2005
Notes for UK Members of Parliament about ME/ICD-CFS
Margaret Williams
23rd January 2005
COMMENTS ON RECENT OUTPUT BY ONECLICK
DM Jones MSc
16th January 2005
Wessely’s Wisdom?
Some more open questions for Professor Wessely
Margaret Williams
15th January 2005
ME campaigners or serial intimidators and abusers of ME patients?
By Stephen Ralph DCR(R) Retired
13th January 2005
Information about One Click
Margaret Williams
10th January 2005
ONE CLICK TOO FAR ?
Margaret Williams
5th January 2005
Myalgic Encephalomyelitis / Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
and Fibromyalgia:
additional considerations for the MRC
in relation to the PACE trials
Margaret Williams
28th December 2004
By
Gurli Bagnall
8th December 2004
Margaret Williams
28th November 2004
Chronic Illness Report 6
Epidemic (Chronic) Fatigue Syndrome:
Post-Viral Fatigue Syndrome (PVFS)
10th November 2004
Deliberate Dichotomy?
Eileen Marshall and Margaret Williams
5th November 2004
Reflections on the US ME/CFS Research Symposium Report
Eileen Marshall and Margaret Williams
1st November 2004
CRITICAL CONSIDERATIONS
Margaret Williams (former medico-legal researcher)
2nd November 2004
Clarification about CRITICAL CONSIDERATIONS
Margaret Williams
28th October 2004
An Inquiry by the UK House of Commons Health Select Committee into the Influence of the Pharmaceutical Industry
Margaret Williams
27th October 2004
Campaigning for
Research into Myalgic Encephalomyelitis
What follows are the first three pages of RiME's Autumn 2004 Newsletter.
MEitis?
A SLENDER STRING TO OUR BOW
Gurli Bagnall
24 October, 2004
If we give up our power to the authorities….,
we submit ourselves to the domination of others over us…
without control over our destiny, it drives us towards
sickness, aging, death.
(“The Medical Mafia” Guylaine Lanctot, M.D.)
24th October 2004
Paradoxical Proliferation of Professorial Psychiatry?
Margaret Williams
17th October 2004
Transparency in Government?
Eileen Marshall and Margaret Williams
16th October 2004
Note on the term “Myalgic Encephalomyelitis”
Eileen Marshall Margaret Williams
14th October 2004
An open letter to the "Wessely School" psychiatrists
Margaret Williams
9th October 2004
THE CEREBELLUM HYPOTHESIS
Comments
on and quotations from an introductory essay on cerebellar involvement in
ME/CFS entitled
"The Cerebellum Synthesis : Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and the Cerebellum"
written in 1997 by PR Celsus
Margaret Williams
View
30th September 2004
ME Research (UK)
Eileen Marshall & Margaret Williams
13th September 2004
The dangerous dominance of Psychiatry in ME/CFS
By Stephen Ralph DCR(R) Retired
6th September 2004
FACTS about the “London” Criteria
6th September 2004
Testimony Presented at the Enquiry into
the Gulf War Illnesses
and
"scientific progress" in Psychiatry.
By
Gurli Bagnall
28th August 2004
Observations on Professor Simon Wessely’s evidence to Lord Lloyd’s
Public Inquiry into Gulf War Illnesses
Eileen Marshall and Margaret Williams
(If you would like to read a transcript of the evidence given by Professor Wessely to the public enquiry detailed above then you can do so by clicking here)
July 2004
PSYCHIATRY AND PERFIDY
By Gurli Bagnall
July, 2004
“Academic psychiatry has all but lost contact with the population it is supposed to serve….Criticism is, if not activelydiscouraged, then politely but very firmly ignored.”
N. McLaren, M.D.Psychiatrist, Australia, 1999
31st July 2004
Malcolm Hooper and Margaret Williams ask Peter White some questions
17th July 2004
Quotable Quotes about ME/CFS
compiled by Margaret Williams
The British Journal of Psychiatry (2004) 185: 95-96
IN DEBATE
There is only one functional somatic syndrome*
28th June 2004
A Warning to the ME/CFS Community
Margaret Williams
It
is a matter of record that there is mounting awareness and concern over
the increasing manipulation of science and medicine by global corporations
with vested interests which now amounts to a stranglehold.
25th June 2004
INFORMATION ON MYALGIC ENCEPHALOMYELITIS (ME) FOR THE USE OF THE MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL (MRC) AND THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EXCELLENCE (NICE)
Margaret Williams
20th June 2004
Issues re the use of the Oxford criteria for the MRC “CFS” Trials
Margaret Williams
20th June 2004
Illustrations of research findings and informed medical opinion about ME / ICD- CFS which psychiatrists of the Wessely School seem to dismiss, trivialise or completely ignore
6th June 2004
Sinister Science
By Margaret Williams
7th April 2004
Some Documents of Relevance to the ME/CFS Community
3rd April 2004
Time for a Reality Check at the UK Department of Health?
By Margaret Williams
April 2004
A Million Stories Untold
By Jodi Bassett
26th March 2004
Perceptions of Progress?
By Margaret Williams
22nd March 2004
SOME QUESTIONS ABOUT ME/CFS TO WHICH CREDIBLE ANSWERS ARE URGENTLY REQUIRED
(prepared for The Countess of Mar’s various meetings with MRC, MPs and Ministers in March /April 2004 by Professor M Hooper in collaboration with the ME/CFS community)
6th March 2004
More misinformation on ME/CFS?
Margaret Williams
10th January 2004
THE
MENTAL HEALTH MOVEMENT:
PERSECUTION OF PATIENTS?
A CONSIDERATION OF THE ROLE OF PROFESSOR SIMON WESSELY AND OTHER MEMBERS OF
THE "WESSELY SCHOOL" IN THE PERCEPTION OF
MYALGIC ENCEPHALOMYELITIS (ME) IN THE UK
Background Briefing for the House of Commons Select Health Committee
"No progress will be made unless everyone helps to publicise the facts contained in this document to all health professionals, to Members of Parliament and to the media"
Click here to visit the newsroom for details of the recent House of Lords Debate and speech by the Countess of Mar (available in text and audio mp3)
23rd December 2003
THE
U.S. COMMITTEE FOR JUSTICE
AND RECOGNITION OF MYALGIC ENCEPHALOMYELITIS
December 8, 2003
Public Statement
To
The
CFS Advisory Committee,
US Department of Health and Human Services
and Dr Fields, for Secretary Thompson
Why Are We All Here?
Since the 1934 California outbreak of Atypical Polio, a long record of cases and outbreaks of our disease have been observed. There was an increasing frequency of outbreaks during the 1950's, which brought greater interest to our disease. Dr Melvin Ramsay and others further defined the illness, and Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) became the recognized term for this neurologic infectious disease.
17th October 2003
Professor Wessely's own lecture notes on ME (12 May 1994)
To
end speculation about authenticity, Margaret Williams has released her copy
of Simon Wessely's own lecture notes from which she took the quotations
in her recent article (Consideration of Simon Wessely's response to The Scotsman).
In his notes, a * indicates where he showed illustrative slides during his
lecture. The lecture was indeed audio-taped but the tape has never been publicly
released.
18th August 2003 - 8th September 2003
An exchange of letters between the Countess of Mar and the Dean of the Institute of Psychiatry Dr George Szmukler relating to the wrongful classification of ME/CFS.
September 2003
Notes on recent research in ME/ICD-CFS
and the Government’s policy of denial
During August and early September 2003, Stephen Ladyman MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Health / Community Care in the UK Labour Government of Mr Blair, has been busy responding to letters about what he refers to as “CFS/ME”.
June 2003
Notes on the involvement of Wessely et al with the Insurance Industry and how they deal with ME/CFS claims
12th April 2003
UNUM Provident, Dr Michael Sharpe and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy: Information which the Medical Research Council might wish to consider.
9th April 2003
SOME FACTS AND FIGURES ON CBT. GET AND OTHER APPROACHES
Directly from the ‘Horses’ Mouths’
Doris M Jones MSc (Reference Group Member, CMO’s Working Group)
27th March 2003
Conference Report
American Association for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (AACFS)
6th International Conference on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome,
Fibromyalgia and Related illnesses
Friday 31 January to Sunday 2 February 2003
Chantilly, Virginia (Washington DC)
Dr Neil C. Abbot
Director of Operations
6th March 2003
Matters for the MRC RAG on "CFS/ME" to consider
Margaret Williams brings two further points to the attention of the MRC Research Advisory Group on "CFS/ME".
4th March 2003
Some salient points arising from the AACFS 6th International Conference which the MRC Research Advisory Group on “CFS/ME” might wish to consider
These short notes have been prepared by Margaret Williams and are taken directly from the Report of the Conference by Dr Rosamund Vallings of New Zealand (available on Co Cure, 27th February 2003 or here), to whom grateful acknowledgement is made.
The Conference was held at
27th February 2003
Personally Speaking - By Gurli Bagnall
"The field of mental health is highly subjective, capricious, and dominated by whims, mythologies, and public relations. In many ways it is a pop culture with endless fads but with no real substance."
Dr. Walter Fisher, Assistant Superintendent, Elgin State Hospital.
"Power, Greed, and Stupidity in the Mental Health Racket".
17th February 2003
In light of the information published in the Medical Research Council Research Advisory Group (RAG) Draft Report for Public Consultation on "CFS/ME" Research Strategy dated 17th Dec. 2002, Margaret Williams has asked me to publish her critique of the Report published by the Royal Australasian College of Physicians.
This internationally criticised RACP Report published during 2001 was used, widely referred to and relied upon by members of the UK Medical Research Council (RAG) when they compiled their draft research strategy document.
A copy of the RACP critique by Margaret Williams has been sent to the Medical Research Council Research Advisory Group for the attention of Elizabeth Mitchell.
In light of all the constructive and highly detailed criticisms of the MRC (RAG) Draft Report, it is hoped that note will be made during the forthcoming review process.
To view the RACP Guidelines click on the PDF icon below to download and view the .pdf document. To save this document to your hard disk right click on the icon below and select "Save Target As...".
(Note: It takes about 3 to 5 minutes to download this 1.32mb sized document and you will need the free Adobe Acrobat reader www.adobe.com to read it.)
8th February 2003
Information regarding the issue of subgroups for the attention of the Medical Research Council "CFS/ME" Research Advisory Group brought to their attention by Professor Malcolm Hooper et al.
18th January 2003
In 1993, the
BMJ carried a leading article by the editor (Richard Smith) about problems
of management within the MRC; the title is Management at
the MRC: old fashioned and in need of reform. (ref:
BMJ 1993:306:1627-1628). In the same issue, there are two papers
by Gillett and
The ME community may be interested in all three articles, extracts from which are set out below; people may wish to know if anything has really changed in the last decade.
17th January 2003
Debunker debunked: can a comparison be made with what is happening with ME?
This short piece details quotes from the article that have relevance to the ME community...
16th January 2003
Considerations of some issues relating to the published views of Psychiatrists of the Wessely School in relation to their beliefs about the nature, cause and treatment of myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME)
15th January 2003
Margaret Williams reviews quotations from "SOMATIC MEDICINE ABUSES PSYCHIATRY - AND NEGLECTS CAUSAL RESEARCH" by Per Dalen, January 2003
January 2003
MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL (CFS/ME RESEARCH ADVISORY GROUP) DRAFT DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC CONSULTATION DECEMBER 17th 2002
A Response by Dr E.G. Dowsett
December 2002
Professor Malcolm Hooper's response to the Medical Research Council Research Advisory Group Draft Report for Public Consultation on "CFS/ME" Research Strategy dated 17th Dec. 2002
Read the original draft Report
August 2002
Important paper which explains multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS)
Review by Margaret Williams
21st June 2002
Letter to the British Journal of General Practitioners from Malcolm Hooper, Margaret Williams and EP Marshall.
House of Lords Debate
16 April 2002 7.27 p.m.
The Countess of Mar speaks to the House of Lords regarding issues relating to ME/CFS.
26th October 2001
Letter from Connie Nelson to the Chief Medical Officer Professor Sir Liam Donaldson.
"Towards the end of August 2001 I inadvertently
stumbled across a website hosting a “GUIDE to Mental
Health in Primary Care“ developed by the WHO Collaborating Centre for Research
and Training for Mental Health,
.........."Realising neither ME nor CFS are classified as mental health disorders, with ME being classified in the ICD-10 under G93.3 (neurological) and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome being index linked to the same, myself and others contacted the Collaborating Centre and the WHO Headquarters in Geneva to voice our concerns."
29th September 2001
Professor Malcolm Hooper's composite response to the Chief Medical Officer's draft Report into CFS/ME.
The final draft of the CMO's Report was published on January 11th 2002
View the main CMO's Report here in .pdf format along with the annexes of the CMO's Report here.
August 2001
CONCEPTS OF ACCOUNTABILITY?
Sally Montague Malcolm Hooper.
July 2001
CONCERNS ABOUT THE FORTHCOMING UK CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER’S REPORT ON ME AND CFS, NOTABLY THE INTENTION TO ADVISE CLINICIANS THAT ONLY LIMITED INVESTIGATIONS ARE NECESSARY
Sally Montague Malcolm Hooper
(known as the Montague / Hooper paper).
2001 Clinical and Scientific Meeting
Video Review - Who will protect the Children?
By Gurli Bagnall
December 1999
A further review, with References, of the Role of Dr (now Professor) Simon Wessely in the Perception of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis Eileen Marshall, Margaret Williams
DENIGRATION BY DESIGN? Vol II (1996-1999) (pp 271)
September 1999
Short summary of some of the findings presented at the Second World Congress on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Related Disorders, Brussels, 9-12 September 1999
February 1998
Nightingale Research Foundation
Paper Presented by Byron Marshall Hyde M.D. -
New South Wales, February 1998
Title:
Are Myalgic Encephalomyelitis and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Synonymous Terms?
August 1996
A Review, with References,
of the Role of Dr (now Professor) Simon Wessely in the Perception of Myalgic
Encephalomyelitis Eileen Marshall, Margaret Williams
DENIGRATION BY DESIGN? Vol I (1987-1996) (pp 217)
This
address was given on 18th November 1995 in London by Professor Anthony Komaroff,
Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA.
(Ed: This
talk was also given as the Melvin Ramsay lecture at The First World Congress
on CFS and Related Disorders in Brussels on 9th November. Here Professor
Komaroff refers to CFS as M.E., for benefit of the UK audience. This is
the first part of Dr Komaroff's address. The second part will be printed
in a future edition of 'Emerge').
