Research Studies

A number of international researchers have approached our organization asking us for volunteers for their research studies.  Many of our members have participated in these studies on a volunteer basis.

• The National ME/FM Action Network participated in Dr. Richard Bruno’s (of U.S.A) study on Post-Polio Sequelae, ME/CFS, and FMS.
  
  
• We represented Canada in an Eye Symptom Survey carried out by Dr. Walter Potaznick, OD, FAAO, of New England College of Optometry.
  
  
• We participated in Dr. Leslie Simpson’s (of New Zealand) study of changes in the shape of the red blood cell population of ME/CFS and FMS patients.
  
  
• The National ME/FM Action Network organized a ME/CFS and FMS patients’ blood drive for Miss Panjwani’s Canadian research study that found abnormal levels of the blood enzyme 2,3,diphosphoglycerate in these patients.
  
  
• Our organization participated in the CFIDS Massachusetts, ‘Quality of Life Survey’
  
  
• And more.