Full debate - available to watch on Youtube, and read the full Hansard transcript.
Also, the complete Ministerial response from a ME Association article - the Parliamentary debate on M.E. treatment and research.
Since the debate - Reports from the ME Association (MEA) and Action for ME (AfME):
ME Association: MPs demand more biomedical research for cruel ‘death sentence’ disease | 22 June 2018
MPs demanded more funding for research into a cruel “death sentence” disease affecting 250,000 people in the UK - and the immediate end to NHS-recommended treatments that are making patients worse.
Action for ME: Parliamentary debate on M.E. - our summary June 21, 2018
“At the moment M.E. receives practically no funding in terms of biomedical research…the treatments that are currently available are often more damaging to the person than no treatments at all.”
Also, the complete Ministerial response from a ME Association article - the Parliamentary debate on M.E. treatment and research.
Since the debate - Reports from the ME Association (MEA) and Action for ME (AfME):
ME Association: MPs demand more biomedical research for cruel ‘death sentence’ disease | 22 June 2018
MPs demanded more funding for research into a cruel “death sentence” disease affecting 250,000 people in the UK - and the immediate end to NHS-recommended treatments that are making patients worse.
Action for ME: Parliamentary debate on M.E. - our summary June 21, 2018
“At the moment M.E. receives practically no funding in terms of biomedical research…the treatments that are currently available are often more damaging to the person than no treatments at all.”
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