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Australian /NZ information

Support groups and activities | Advocacy news and articles |
RESEARCH - Newcastle/Bioscreen archive, Adelaide | Sydney researchers
CFS and FMS Guidelines Australia, Canada, USA, UK ...
Mailing lists & places to talk


Support groups and activities

ACT ME/CFS Society (Canberra)
The Bruce Campbell Self-Management Course in Australia
Support Group Directory - organisations, groups and contacts in Australia (and NZ).

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Advocacy news and articles

A short history of ME/CFS advocacy in Canberra - by Judy Goyen: how the ACT ME/CFS Society was founded 20 years ago
Toxic cabin fumes in jet aircraft - the BAe146 Senate enquiry in Australia, and reports from around the world
ME/CFS/FM Awareness Week Rally - Parliament House, Canberra, May 10 2000
"Welfare reform", the world of work and the need for understanding by Ron Fraser (2000)
Jim Pearce MP on the insurance industry’s biased handling of CFS claims (2000)
Internet advocates win Hamilton campaign - island resort's offensive advertising (1999)

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Research

Australia/NZ Treatment and Research Links
Australian research abstracts

Adelaide CFS and Fibromyalgia Research

Adelaide Research Programme - go to the Alison Hunter Memorial Foundation website to read about proposed research into CFS/FM by Dr. Peter del Fante, Assoc. Prof. David Torpy and Dr. Richard Kwiatek, and how to support it.
New discoveries about cerebral blood flow - FM research by Dr Richard Kwaitek's team at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Adelaide. (2001)
Exciting research in Fibromyalgia - Dr Richard Kwaitek interviewed on Adelaide's Radio 5RPH  (2001)
Adelaide lactic acid research -  research by Prof. Garry Scroop and Dr Richard Burnet at Adelaide University (1998 onwards)
Links to more information about Adelaide Research
Abstracts

Bioscreen/Newcastle archive

Sydney researchers

A Critique of the Sydney Researchers by Ted Shaw
Abstracts

CFS Guidelines

CFS and FMS Guidelines:
Includes information about and links to:- the new South Australian ME/CFS Guidelines for GPs, the Canadian clinical definition and diagnostic and treatment protocols for ME/CFS and FMS, the "CMO's Report" into CFS/ME from the UK, and the New Jersey Consensus Manual. Also background on the development and publication of the controversial Royal Australian College of Physicans' Clinical Practice guidelines .

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Mailing lists & places to talk

Email penpals page - alas, this page has been discontinued because people were getting too much spam
Aussie/NZ mailing lists, forums and chat - for people with FMS, CFS and related illnesses
OzME Help Page with Mailing list HINTS AND TIPS and useful links for beginners

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