Fujitsu, the maker of the faulty Horizon software, has yet to pay anything towards redress while still benefiting from state contracts, the Business and Trade Committee said.

More evidence is presented that the most severely ill fibromyalgia patients have an autoimmune disease.

Geoff’s Narration The GIST Muscles on a Chip Whoa, another muscle study. We recently reported on a proteomic study suggesting that muscle repair problems contribute to post-exertional malaise in ME/CF...

Amatica's huge gene expression database attempts to identify which subsets a person belongs in and which treatments that may work for them.

A deep dive into the genome of ME/CFS patients points to many genetic causes of ME/CFS most of which impact energy production, the metabolism, and blood flows.

The Open Medicine Foundation's huge Bioquest project has the potential to transform ME/CFS patients experience with doctors, dramatically enhance research and get drug companies finally interested in ...

The big IMPACC long COVID study findings suggest that inflammation and reduced male sex hormone levels may be playing havoc with the small blood vessels in long COVID -= and ME/CFS

Geoff’s Narration The GIST   “These substances represent a potentially revolutionary approach to pharmacological pain management,” Crozpek et. Al. 2025 History has shown that our notions of what treat...

Eighty dogs were reportedly crammed into stacked, waste-soaked crates. One puppy, Snowcone, reportedly left so emaciated she now needs lifesaving heart surgery. Demand full justice for these innocent ...

While some enjoy living standards comparable to the most prosperous regions of Europe, the poorest in the UK are now poorer than Slovenia and Malta.

This is my story of how self-doubt of my illness nearly left my severe endometriosis undiagnosed and my chronic pain untreated

Trump made the remarks at a White House meeting with the leaders of several African nations. Many Liberians are the descendants of freed American slaves.

Application for relaunch rejected amid doubts about capacity and value to passengers and taxpayers

We're chasing seeds of hope today despite some frustrating Delivery Plan news

YouTube video by Sheffield ME & Fibromyalgia Group

More than 500 trade unionists have signed a letter to the government opposing cuts to welfare and disability benefits.

49 Labour MPs voted against the welfare cuts in what is believed to be the most significant rebellion of his premiership

Stephen Timms, the Minister of State for Social Security and Disability, has now replied to the letter from Disabled People Against Cuts sent three weeks ago.

The NICE Clinical Knowledge Summary (CKS) site is only available to users in the UK, Crown Dependencies and British Overseas Territories

The tools developed along the way could revolutionise medicine

A calamitous week for Keir Starmer’s government is said to have rendered the proposal, which would have cost £3.4 billion, unfeasible

One Northamptonshire Labour MP said that DWP PIP is “leaving people unable to work, and it rewards people for... not working”

Labour's NHS ten-year plan is using the private sector to deliver choice between providers, in a huge step towards full privatisation

Labour education secretary Bridget Phillipson had an interesting analysis of her party's first 12 months - and it left us flabbergasted

Sky Hawkins poetry prize 2025 is open for entries from 23 June until 6 July. Results will be announced in August

The Big Issue attended a photo-call where Labour MPs publicly opposed the government's plans for disability benefit cuts.

GLP-1 agonists like Ozempic could be surprisingly helpful in diseases like chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia and long COVID.