Advocacy Files, M.E. Society of America

Advocacy

"Sick, Not Tired": Life with Severe M.E., by Ciara MacLaverty

Criticisms of Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) and Graded Exercise Therapy (GET) from the Canadian Clinical Case Definition for ME/CFS
"Shaky Foundation": Problems and Confusion Created by the CDC's Fukuda et al. CFS Case Definition and Why Some Publicly Funded Researchers Like It That Way, by Craig Maupin
Maryann Spurgin, Ph.D., reviews the 2003 ME/CFS clinical case definition
Sara Bass's Testimony to the CFS Coordinating Committee on Stephen Paganetti's Bedridden Case
Name Change Issues:
Abstracts of Three Articles by Leonard A. Jason, Ph.D., Demonstrating the Adverse Effect of the Name "Chronic Fatigue Syndrome"
Draft of Name Change Recommendations from the Name Change Workgroup
"The Need to Abolish the Fatigue Model and to Establish Precise Subsets," by Maryann Spurgin, Ph.D.

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