About Us
We would like to welcome you to the web-site of Campaign for ME and CFS Diagnosis, Treatments and Clinics Worldwide.
There are over 20 million people suffering from ME around the world. The complexity of ME, Fibromyalgia and Chronic Lyme disease requires specialist medical doctors with a high level of training, experience and knowledge. The experience in other countries, especially from private clinics, shows that specialist ME clinics, Fibromyalgia clinics and Chronic Lyme disease clinics are the most effective and cost efficient means of treating these complex diseases. We aim to get governments, foundations, philantrophies, private organisations, investors, etc. together to fund the building of ME clinics in countries all over the world.
We are coordinating our efforts with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the USA and working with them to develop new research approaches, new biological diagnostics and treatments, and new medical clinics based on the findings of scientific research and the clinical data of medical doctors and specialist medical clinics. One of our members regularly attends NIH meetings online. We are also coordinating efforts with the European Union medical authorities and the Irish medical authorities. Our efforts are ongoing.
What is ME ? Have People died from ME and its health complications ?
M.E. stands for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis which is a Latin name meaning inflammation of the brain, spinal cord and muscles. Myalgic Encephalomyelitis or ME was first used to define the illness by Dr. Donald Acheson in the Lancet medical journal in 1955 and has been used ever since - Outbreak at the Royal Free.
E.D Acheson. The Lancet, Volume 266, Issue 6886, Pages 394 - 395, 20 August 1955. ME is the correct scientific and medical name for the illness. The World Health Organisation (WHO) classification code for ME is G93.3, World Health Organisation - Classification . This is universally accepted by governments, medical associations and doctors worldwide. This classifies ME as a neurological illness, and puts ME in the same class as other neurological illnesses such as Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinsons, ALS, Epilepsy.
Dr. Melvin Ramsay, a British medical doctor was a leading global authority on ME from 1955 to 1990, and his work was cited and used by doctors around the world. Dr. Melvin Ramsay was a consultant physician at the Infectious Diseases Department of the Royal Free Hospital, and he also served as advisor to the British Ministry of Health in matters concerning smallpox. He was actively involved in treating ME patients during the famous Royal Free Hospital outbreak in England. In 1956, a paper by Dr. Melvin Ramsay appeared in the Lancet Encephalomyelitis simulating Poliomyelitis He believed that there was an infectious cause which led to neurological, endocrine, mitochondria and muscular abnormalities. His research paper 'Epidemic neuromyasthenia' 1955-1978'. Postgrad Med J. 1978 Nov;54(637):718-21. PMID:
746017, was a major contribution to medicine, and provided important insights into the illness in Britain over 2 decades. His classic book about ME, detailing its naming, definition and it's progression through the 1950's, 1960's and 1970's is Myalgic Encephalomyelitis and Post Viral Fatigue States: the Saga of the Royal Free Disease by Dr Melvin Ramsay. A later paper in 1990, co-authored by Dr. Ramsay provided new and deeper insights into ME Myalgic encephalomyelitis--a persistent enteroviral infection?. Dr. Ramsay knew and collaborated with other ME experts such as Dr. Acheson and Dr. Richardson throughout this period and their medical and scientific insights were very valuable and continue to have relevance today. Dr. Ramsay was the first person to create a formal definition and diagnostic criteria for the illness in 1986, which was used by doctors and researchers in Europe - Ramsey ME Definition 1986, 1988 . This defintion and diagnosis is still relevant today.
Join Today to access many types of medical diagnostics and treatments, including alternative health treatments, and top medical clinics worldwide and alternative health clinics worldwide. And links to top medical doctors with over 20 years experience in treating the illness. We have links to support groups worldwide. Join today to view these on our web site. And help us fund raise to lobby for the building of these medical clinics in your country.
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