Journal of IiME Volume 8 Issue 1 which have served patients so poorly and caused such suffering. This full day closed researcher meeting was designed to encourage collaboration and sharing of experience and to bring in new ideas and knowledge from outside the field of ME. A small charity with a BIG cause can achieve this. Colloquium Such is the meaning behind our Invest in ME Biomedical Research into ME Collaborative meetings which have been organised by Invest in ME and which precede our annual research conference. These aim to interest other researchers to the field of biomedical research into ME, assist those who are undertaking research or planning research into ME, and look for future collaborative projects and funding which could be generated by new ideas. This Colloquium, now in its fourth year and which has now attracted almost fifty delegates from ten countries, is a full day closed researcher meeting designed to encourage collaboration and sharing of experience and to bring in new ideas and knowledge from outside the field of ME. A small charity with a BIG cause can achieve this. The government, their organisations and the media have a lot of catching up to do. Listen to the patients is still a maxim to which politicians and the media should pay heed. Invest in ME Research Soon the charity will convert to CIO charity structure – something that has taken a lot of administrative effort over the past year. The name will become Invest in ME Research. But essentially everything continues. Our web address will remain, albeit with a new web design coming soon. Invest in ME Research will continue to lobby, raise awareness, facilitate, initiate and fund biomedical research into ME, and campaign to help patients and families to receive proper diagnosis, treatment and respect. Our commitment is to biomedical research into ME – something we will not compromise by merging all research into one big pot – a convenient but ill-fated philosophy. There is the wrong way and the right way to progress research into ME. We hope to change that in the future. For this version of the Journal we have included some interesting articles on other research areas as a way to help research into ME. So articles by Dr Jo Cambridge and Professor Steven Tracy will not specifically deal with ME but we hope, nonetheless, will be useful. From the USA columnist and producer Llewellyn King has contributed our letter from America article. Llewellyn’s comments the lack of action by governments and establishment organisations chime with ours. The Conference And so to the conference. Invest in ME (Charity Nr. 1114035) www.investinme.org Page 7 of 52 May 2014 The Journal The Journal of IiME and forms part of each delegate’s conference pack at the 9th Invest in ME International ME/CFS Conference 2014. The Journal of IiME was created as a means of providing a broad spectrum of information on ME/CFS, combining biomedical research, information, news, views, stories and other articles relating to myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME/CFS). Our aim has been to distribute this for free four times a year. However, due to the resource and financial limitations of IiME we can only provide a snapshot of the wealth of experience which already exists and continues to increase and currently we are only able to publish a maximum of two copies a year.
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