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Widespread: What is ME/CFS?: ME/CFS sounds as mysterious as this serious illness still is for patients and researchers. The number of cases has risen - | the ...
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Widespread: What is ME/CFS?
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Long Covid and ME/CFS in Dresden: Portrait of Elena Lierck: Elena Lierck is more committed than anyone else in Germany to helping children suffering from Long ...
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Long Covid and ME/CFS in Dresden: Portrait of Elena Lierck
How patients with Long Covid are to be cared for in Styria: Premiere in Austria: A concept for the care of ME/CFS patients was presented in Styria on Wednesday ...
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How patients with Long Covid are to be cared for in Styria
Living with Long Covid: How an ME/CFS sufferer is fighting for recognition: Anna is one of a million people in Germany who have Long Covid and ME/CFS ...
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Severe form of long Covid: Computer science professor leaves ETH Zurich: Otmar Hilliges was diagnosed with a neuroimmunological disease. He had previously been ...
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Severe form of long Covid: Computer science professor leaves ETH Zurich
Too little money for ME/CFS: Karl Lauterbach sees "state failure": Since the coronavirus pandemic, many more people have been suffering from chronic fatigue ...
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Too little money for ME/CFS: Karl Lauterbach sees
Key FactsCalls Grow for Increased ME/CFS Research Funding
Jul 17, 2025 · Reading time: ~45 sec.
Summary created with AI assistance · Source: n-tv.de
  • Karl Lauterbach accuses the government of failing in funding research for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Long Covid, calling it a state failure.

  • The coalition is debating a research budget between 10 and 15 million euros, while Lauterbach demands at least one billion euros.

  • The number of ME/CFS sufferers has surged to approximately 650,000 since the pandemic, necessitating a significant expansion of research efforts.

  • Lauterbach expresses deep concern for desperate patients and states that progress remains insufficient despite promised research funds.
  • The amounts currently in the budget are completely unacceptable.
    — Karl Lauterbach criticizes the insufficient financial resources for research on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) and Long Covid in 'Spiegel'.
ME/CFS: Research Minister wants to expand research into Long Covid: Minister Dorothee Bär (CSU) is in favor of more research into Long Covid and ME/CFS ...
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ME/CFS: Research Minister wants to expand research into Long Covid
Disease in focus: ME/CFS Day - | Buildings in Lower Saxony light up blue today: More than 600,000 sufferers, hardly any research: Patients with chronic fatigue ...
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Long Covid and ME/CFS: Specialized contact points are needed: The National Reference Center for Post-Viral Syndromes has presented a new guideline on how the ...
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ME/CFS: On the trail of Long Covid: The secondary illnesses following a coronavirus infection often lead to serious and years-long limitations ...
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Long-Covid outpatient clinic for children starts at Worms Hospital: Until now, there was only one contact point in Koblenz for children with severe consequences ...
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