For a lot of people living with ME/CFS or Long COVID, spring arrives second-hand. Discoveries for ME is two people and a tiny mission: someone brings back a little piece of the world for someone who can’t get out to find it.
When five-time Olympic gold medallist Kaylee McKeown withdrew from the 2026 Commonwealth Games with glandular fever, she pointed to something most people never hear about the illness: the risk that it does not end when
Reviewed by Dr Chris Armstrong, senior author and director of the Melbourne ME/CFS Collaboration, University of Melbourne. For decades, hormone studies in ME/CFS and Long COVID have produced conflicting results. A 2026 review led from
For most people with ME/CFS, finding a treatment that works is trial and error. As Dr David Fineberg, GP and PhD candidate at the Melbourne ME/CFS Collaboration, says: “We don’t really understand what’s happening with
Research Update · Melbourne The brain that feels stuck is starting to show why Last week we shared a dispatch from Adelaide. This week, we’re back in Melbourne, with new findings from MELOPIS, and a
In case you missed it, Open Medicine Foundation (OMF) has recently launched Clinical Trials Network (CTN) Lite—a streamlined research model enabling us to launch decentralised precision medicine treatment trials. The first step in launching this
Some weeks, the science is in the lab. Last week, it was on the conference floor in Adelaide, where OMF Australia sponsored Converge 2026, the Australian POTS Foundation’s annual conference. The Foundation does exceptional work
Coming Together for Research & Collaboration At the end of May, Open Medicine Foundation’s Founder and CEO, CRC Directors, and VP of Research Programs all attended the 2026 Invest in ME Research Conference in Cambridge,
Research in the youngest patients with ME/CFS Last week, we shared where the research is heading next. Today, we want to take you inside one of the projects already helping shape that future. Children and
Earlier this month, we marked ME/CFS Awareness Day with the community. Thank you for everything you do to help keep these diseases, and the people living with them, visible. Today, we want to share where
As we close another year of progress toward effective treatments for ME/CFS and Long COVID, we want to share with you what your support has made possible Click the image to read the interactive e-zine.
Show solidarity with the ME/CFS community on Awareness Day. Today, we make ME/CFS visible. On International ME/CFS Awareness Day, we honour the millions of people around the world living with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS)
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