The ME/CFS Society of NSW Inc.

The proposed Australian Disability Parking Scheme seeks to harmonise various state and local level disability parking arrangements at a federal level. The Society believes that while harmonisation of different schemes into one scheme is a positive move, there are several disadvantages to the proposal for people with invisible illnesses or disabilities such as ME/CFS.

Many of the artworks being exhibited at the Creative for a Second Art Tour are available for sale at very reasonable prices. Twenty per cent of the cost will benefit the Society. For more information visit www.cfsart.org and click on "artworks".

Disability Insurance May Be a Saviour
Never Assume!
In the early 1990's the surge in superannuation entitlements under the Superannuation Guarantee legislation also brought with it an increase in employees who had access to Superannuation Disability Insurance. The problem is, people forget that it exists, or believe that it does not apply to them.

You may well be very wrong. Do not assume that you are not entitled.

What Insurances Are There?

Following a press conference at the Ritz Hotel in London on Thursday May 28, a number of UK newspapers have been reporting that the cause of ME/CFS has been identified and that a simple home-based diagnostic test for ME/CFS is now commercially available to the general public.

Daily Telegraph story

The urine test is based on the new scientific hypothesis that people with ME/CFS are producing excessive amounts of a chemical called hydrogen sulphide (H2S) and that this abnormality can be measured by a specific urine test (that measures an H2S metabolite/by-product).