Winter 2020 Newsletter - Quest 126 

We are pleased to bring you the Winter 2020 newsletter, Quest 126

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In this issue:

• Changing the Approach to ME and FM

◦ Why change is needed now

◦ Redesigning Health Care    

◦ Growing Health Research    

◦ Ensuring Disability Supports

• Pacing and Management Guide for ME/CFS (by #MEAction)    

• Post-Covid study funded    

• Chronic Pain and Opioids

• Dr Houghton wins Nobel Prize

• Proposed British guidelines reject useless chronic fatigue syndrome treatments

• You Don’t Have to Do It All This 2020 Holiday Season    

• Innovative clinical diagnostic test to diagnose myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME)    

• Un test diagnostique clinique innovant pour diagnostiquer l’encéphalomyélite myalgique (EM)

• Workshop on Post-Acute Sequelae of COVID-19

Fall 2020 – No. 125 

Introduction 

CCHS 2019 data on CFS and FM

Information for People Struggling toRecover from COVID-19 5

ME/FM Research Update

Pointers from your colleagues

Speech From the Throne 

 

Special Issue 2020 – No. 124 

Quest 124 - COVID Disability Payment

The Parliament of Canada announced a one-time payment to persons with disabilities. In this special edition of our Quest newsletter, we provide details of the program and how to apply.

In this issue:

• COVID - Disability Payment

• Email From Carla Qualtrough

• Disability Tax Credit Basics

• Applying for the DTC with ME/FM

• Additional Announcements

• Government Acknowledges Problems

• Your Opportunity to Provide Feedback

• How to Apply for the DTC

Summer 2020 – No. 123 

• ME/FM and Covid-19

• Letter to the Prime Minister

• Feedback from the Community

• What Next?

• PME/FM-Covid Infosheets from the Bateman Horne Center

• Update from ICanCME Research Network

• Working for you 

• Other news in brief

Spring 2020 - No. 122

• Raising Awareness From Home

• Federal Government Priorities

• ME in the Education System

• CPP-D Guide 2020 Edition

• Closing the Health Care Gender Gap – ME and FM

• Doctor to Doctor

• Consultation on Chronic Pain

• Consultation sur la douleur

• Update from ICanCME Research Network: Let’s stop ME together

• Mise à jour de la part du Réseau canadien de recherche concertée interdisciplinaire sur l’EM : « Arrête-MOI si tu peux »

FM - A Multi-System Illness