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RFA Ticker, 1/23/17

Posted on January 23, 2017 by Jennie Spotila

Second verse same as the first. The wait continues. Two dates are coming: January 31st, by which Dr. Francis Collins said the RFAs would be issued. February 1st, on which NIH will hold another ME/CFS advocacy call. Call-in information has … Continue reading →

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RFA Ticker, 1/16/17

Posted on January 15, 2017 by Jennie Spotila

NIH issued no RFAs last week, but we have plenty to talk about after Dr. Vicky Whittemore’s presentation at the CFS Advisory Committee on Friday. Dr. Whittemore’s announcement was simultaneously welcome and disappointing. During her update to the committee on … Continue reading →

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Comment by Terri Wilder, 1/12/17

Posted on January 13, 2017 by Jennie Spotila

Terri Wilder made these remarks at the January 12, 2017 meeting of the CFS Advisory Committee. I’m pleased to publish her complete comments, with her permission. Good Afternoon- My name is Terri Wilder and I’m a person living with ME. … Continue reading →

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RFA Ticker, 1/9/17

Posted on January 9, 2017 by Jennie Spotila

So. Is anyone surprised that it is January 9th and we do not have the promised RFAs? I didn’t think so. Will we hear an announcement at the CFS Advisory Committee meeting this week? I don’t know. The question that … Continue reading →

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Zero, Zilch, Zippo

Posted on January 2, 2017 by Jennie Spotila

Zero, zilch, zippo, nada, cero, null, nulla, sifr, nul’, ling, nialas, sero, naught. No matter how you say it, we got nothing. Despite the promise in October 2015 that a request for proposals would be issued “soon.” Despite Dr. Collins’s … Continue reading →

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RFA Ticker, 12/26/16

Posted on December 26, 2016 by Jennie Spotila

No Christmas joy for ME/CFS research at NIH. Only two RFAs were issued last week, and neither were the RFAs promised to us. It appears that the RFAs are coming . . . at some point. Dr. Vicky Whittemore told … Continue reading →

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Dr. Collins: Keep Your Promise!

Posted on December 21, 2016 by Jennie Spotila

This is a call to action. I hope you will join me in demanding that Dr. Collins keep NIH’s promise to the ME community. (Edited to add: this action originated with MEAction. I’m just helping to boost the signal.) The … Continue reading →

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RFA Ticker, 12/19/16

Posted on December 19, 2016 by Jennie Spotila

There was a veritable flurry of RFAs last week, with the most issued in any single week since I started tracking last year. But more than halfway through December, the promised RFAs for the ME/CFS research consortium and data center … Continue reading →

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RFA Ticker, 12/12/16

Posted on December 12, 2016 by Jennie Spotila

It’s December and the news we’ve all been waiting for – the announcement of ME/CFS RFAs – has not come. But other things of note have been happening. On the RFA front, NIH has passed half a billion dollars in … Continue reading →

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RFA Ticker, 12/5/16

Posted on December 5, 2016 by Jennie Spotila

The news in the past week was more about NIH generally, rather than ME specifically. President-elect Trump has nominated Representative Tom Price to be Secretary of HHS. This has touched off a war of words within the medical community, as … Continue reading →

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