This week in Severe ME Awareness Week, 4th - 10th August 2025 It is estimated that at least 404,000 people in the UK have ME and around 25% of these people may have severe or very severe symptoms for prolonged periods. The severity and intensity of ME symptoms means that people

Eight genetic signals have been identified. As DNA doesn’t change with ME/CFS onset, these findings reflect causes rather than effects of ME/CFS.

Today is Severe ME Day 2025 – 25megroup.org/campaigning/se… A day to honour the strength of spirit of all those who have endured and continue to endure decades of suffering and profound physical dysfunction and yet receive little recognition or help. #myalgicencephalomyelitis #MyalgicE

Severe ME Day – 8th August – is dedicated to raising awareness about severe ME and remembering those who have lost their lives to this disease. Estimates suggest that around 25% of individuals with ME suffer from the severe form. Read more: bit.ly/SevereMEday25

🕯️ Today we honour the memory of those we've lost to Severe ME. Their lives mattered. Their suffering was real. We remember them and continue fighting for those still battling this devastating illness. #SevereMEDay #InMemory #SevereME #NeverForgotten #HiddenButHere #BeTheLight

"DecodeME is now calling on researchers worldwide to join us in accelerating ME/CFS research.” - Prof Chris Ponting (DecodeME Investigator). We encourage researchers to explore and build on our findings. Apply for access to our rich dataset now shorturl.at/F8aOM

Israel says reporters aren't safe in Gaza. Maybe it should stop killing them then! #GazaGenocide

"It is a famine. The Gaza Famine. It is a famine that we could have prevented, if we had been allowed. Yet food stacks up at borders because of systematic obstruction by Israel. Everyone owns this. The #GazaFamine is the world’s famine." - Tom Fletcher

Interested in supporting future ME/CFS research? The University of Edinburgh & Action for ME are expanding on DecodeME’s research through projects like SequenceME & Long Covid, which will use DecodeME data to study the entire genome. Help support future ME/CFS research: shorturl.at/rRFD9

“We have suffered from occupation. We fought against it for 800 years.” On the eve of the launch of the @globalsumudf to Gaza, @LiamCunningham1 told Novara Media why Ireland's history makes solidarity with Palestine unquestionable.

Boycott and pressure these companies now for their complicity in Israel’s occupation, apartheid and genocide against Indigenous Palestinians.

BDS Victory! The Scottish Parliament becomes the first in the world to endorse BDS against genocidal Israel. BDS calls for escalated civil society pressure on all states to impose legal and targeted sanctions against apartheid Israel similar to those that helped abolish

🚨Tell the Home Secretary - Ban Isaac Herzog's State visit Our government is set to welcome war criminal Isaac Herzog to Britain with open arms. Herzog has said that there ‘are no innocent civilians in Gaza.' Write to the Home Secretary to demand our government ban Isaac

Israel is out of control #GazaGenocide‌