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Welcome to the National ME/FM Action Network Website
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Using our User-Friendly Website
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The Menu running across the top of the page contains the general categories. When you click on a general
category from the top menu, the various sections for the chosen
category will appear in the left-hand menu. The left-hand menu will
change for each main category at the top of the page. For further
assistance, click on the site map at the bottom of each page. - Libraries: Visit our Newsletter ("Quest"), Research and Legal Libraries.
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Patients' and Youth Corners: These
"Corners" include a number of "Galleries". Please send us your picture
and story, your creative writings, artwork and tips to post! Your
voice is our voice. Patients, let's hear from you!
| The National ME/FM Action Network will host the
10th IACFS Research & Clinical Conference
Translating
Evidence into Practice: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome,
Fibromyalgia, and Related
Illnesses
Ottawa, Canada - Sept. 22 - 25, 2011 | 
Click on CanadaHelps logo to donate
to the National ME/FM Action Network.
Tax receipt can be printed immediately. | Join in the excitement!
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| News Spotlight- ME & Blood Donations - Canadian Supply
Letter to Secretary for Health, UK 03/17/2010
- Retrovirus XMRV - read the latest news! 2010 (updated 03/17/2010)
- Secret Weapon of Retrovirus - 02/21/2010
- Seminar - Feb 18; Dr. Bell to speak in Toronto Mar 6
- Webcasts, podcasts, transcripts, slides, etc. On XMRV 02/2010
Drs. Judy Mikovits, Alison Bested, S. Vernon, L. Bateman, D. Bell, & more
- CVDB Leadership Transition [CDC] 01/31/2010
Startling news - Dr. Reeves leaves post at CDC
- XMRV - Quick Facts 2010 Retrovirus found in 95% of ME/CFS patients 10/2009
- Dutch translation of ME/CFS Overview now available 01/2010
- Patient Questionnaire Whittemore Peterson Institute 11/2009
- Inquiry & response - Health Minister 12/2009
Research
| Canadians Afflicted: ME/CFS:165,000 - 825,000 FMS: 495,000 - 3,300,000 Read more
Annual Financial Loss to Canada: $13,200,000,000 - $99,000,000,000 Read more
| Priority Features
| Overviews of the Canadian Consensus Documents
Dr. Bruce Carruthers, principal
author of the Consensus Documents for ME/CFS and coeditor of the FMS
Consensus Document, and Marjorie van de Sande, Consensus Coordinator
for both Consensus Documents, have written Overviews of the Canadian
Consensus Documents for ME/CFS and FMS. These user-friendly Overviews
of the physicians' guidelines will further assist busy medical
practitioners. | Consensus Documents | Canadian Consensus Documents
The Canadian Consensus
Documents for ME/CFS and FMS include clinical definitions and
diagnostic and treatment guidelines for medical practitioners. The
National ME/FM Action Network spearheaded the drive for the development
of clinical definitions and guidelines. Health Canada selected the
Expert Consensus Panels.
| TEACH-ME:
A Sourcebook for Teachers of Young People With Myalgic
Encephalomyelitis/ Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia Syndrome
- Dr. David S. Bell
- Dr. Bruce M. Carruthers
- TEACH-ME Task Force (teachers with ME/CFS & FMS)
| Preview - Second Edition
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Our website is the recipient of a Hope Award 2007 in
recognition of the positive support and encouragement it gives to
people suffering from chronic illnesses. We
hope that you find our website a comfortable place to visit often. We
endeavor to make this website user-friendly, keep you abreast to new
developments, and have no advertising. We are here to support you and
encourage you to contribute to the Patients' Corner. The content of
this website is developed and maintained by the Webmaster on a
volunteer basis and she welcomes your comments. Webmaster
Please enjoy our website!This website was kindly created by Bob van de Sande, B. Sc. E.Eng.The content of the website was developed/edited by Marjorie van de Sande, B. Ed., Grad. Dip. Ed. We would also like to recognize the contribution of Al Neilson,
who kindly created and ran our original website (1993-2003).Website last modified: March 2010.
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