Dear Lydia,
It is not as important that the National ME/CFS Network support its community as the other
way around?
"We joined in name only in partnership with Eli Lily for its website
Fibromyalgia: Reconnecting to What Matters."
I believe Eli Lilly is the firm being referenced here. I am not sure they are safe to have
as a partner.
http://www.whale.to/a/eli_lilly.html
"I have not nor has the National ME/FM Action Network ever promoted a
product..."
Not directly perhaps...but clever Pharma has found a find new way to lead doctor$ and
patient$ where they wish them to go.
"There are also strict guidelines by the governments that
the pharmaceutical companies have to follow."
No, there are not. Health Canada how refers to Big Pharma as "our client" and it
is pretty clear that we are used as lab rats.
See Terence Young
http://www.healthcoalition.ca/
Dr. Shiv Chopra, CORRUPT TO THE CORE
http://shivchopra.com/
Why should Lilly reinvent the wheel when partners have created a market for their old
meds? We may have decades more of meds that nave been discredited by Canadian and
international experts as placebos, mind-altering, or disabling.
http://www.alternet.org/story/146659/are_prozac_and_other_psychiatric_dru...
ks
Canada
--- On Sat, 5/29/10, Lydia Neilson <ag922(a)ncf.ca> wrote:
From: Lydia Neilson <ag922(a)ncf.ca>
Subject: [Nmefman] HOW IT IS AND WHAT MATTERS
To: nmefman-contacts(a)lists.ncf.ca
Received: Saturday, May 29, 2010, 6:20 PM
Dear Friends:
Thank you so very much for your supportive replies and I
appreciate your trust which means a lot to me. We do
NOT get financial assistance from the pharmaceutical
industries. If we went after that, we would be rich
today and I certainly would be. I have not nor has the
National ME/FM Action Network ever promoted a product but we
do think it is the right of everyone to know what research
is being done and what products are being used, homeopathic
or otherwise. All we do is bring information to all
those who seek it.
There are also strict guidelines by the governments that
the pharmaceutical companies have to follow. We joined in
name only in partnership with Eli Lily for its website
Fibromyalgia: Reconnecting to What Matters. It gives us the
opportunity to reach more people as without our
involvement, the site will stay go up but without us
having a chance to bring information to the people.
What is particularly important is that a medical
professional will seek out that site looking for information
more readily than he/she would in a medical journal on
Fibromyalgia. He/she would not go to a support group
and by being present there we expose that professional to
research and information which we otherwise would not have
access to.
We get no financial assistance from any drug company and
the funds of $150,000 that we are trying to raise is to
cover the cost of the conference and will not be kept by
us. It is for the facilities where the conference is
to be held, the medical professionals who are doing the
workshop to cover their travel, airfare
etc. Without funds there can be no
conference. We also hope to have a French translator
there for the patient conference. We would gladly
obtain funds from other sources but even the ones who do not
support our position are unable to provide us with an
alternative. We have received much positive
support for which our Network is grateful.
There was a time that there was no treatment for
Fibromyalgia at all and although we are still only touching
the surface of what needs to be done for the ME/CFS and FMS
people, at least now it has started to pay off after many
years of activism by the ME/CFS and FMS communities.
This interest will lead to grants which will lead to
research and that is what is mandatory before a cause and
treatment can be established.
We thoroughly researched the ways that the medical
professionals or others in the health field get their
information by having meetings with them. I know
that is not the way it should be but that is how it is.
Lydia
Lydia E. Neilson, M.S.M., Founder
Chief Executive Officer
National ME/FM Action Network
512 - 33 Banner Road
Nepean, ON K2H 8V7 Canada
Tel. (613) 829-6667 Fax (613)
829-8518
E-mail: ag922(a)ncf.ca
Web:
http://www.mefmaction.net
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--- On Sat, 5/29/10, Lydia Neilson <ag922(a)ncf.ca> wrote:
From: Lydia Neilson <ag922(a)ncf.ca>
Subject: [Nmefman] HOW IT IS AND WHAT MATTERS
To: nmefman-contacts(a)lists.ncf.ca
Received: Saturday, May 29, 2010, 6:20 PM
Dear Friends:
Thank you so very much for your supportive replies and I
appreciate your trust which means a lot to me. We do
NOT get financial assistance from the pharmaceutical
industries. If we went after that, we would be rich
today and I certainly would be. I have not nor has the
National ME/FM Action Network ever promoted a product but we
do think it is the right of everyone to know what research
is being done and what products are being used, homeopathic
or otherwise. All we do is bring information to all
those who seek it.
There are also strict guidelines by the governments that
the pharmaceutical companies have to follow. We joined in
name only in partnership with Eli Lily for its website
Fibromyalgia: Reconnecting to What Matters. It gives us the
opportunity to reach more people as without our
involvement, the site will stay go up but without us
having a chance to bring information to the people.
What is particularly important is that a medical
professional will seek out that site looking for information
more readily than he/she would in a medical journal on
Fibromyalgia. He/she would not go to a support group
and by being present there we expose that professional to
research and information which we otherwise would not have
access to.
We get no financial assistance from any drug company and
the funds of $150,000 that we are trying to raise is to
cover the cost of the conference and will not be kept by
us. It is for the facilities where the conference is
to be held, the medical professionals who are doing the
workshop to cover their travel, airfare
etc. Without funds there can be no
conference. We also hope to have a French translator
there for the patient conference. We would gladly
obtain funds from other sources but even the ones who do not
support our position are unable to provide us with an
alternative. We have received much positive
support for which our Network is grateful.
There was a time that there was no treatment for
Fibromyalgia at all and although we are still only touching
the surface of what needs to be done for the ME/CFS and FMS
people, at least now it has started to pay off after many
years of activism by the ME/CFS and FMS communities.
This interest will lead to grants which will lead to
research and that is what is mandatory before a cause and
treatment can be established.
We thoroughly researched the ways that the medical
professionals or others in the health field get their
information by having meetings with them. I know
that is not the way it should be but that is how it is.
Lydia
Lydia E. Neilson, M.S.M., Founder
Chief Executive Officer
National ME/FM Action Network
512 - 33 Banner Road
Nepean, ON K2H 8V7 Canada
Tel. (613) 829-6667 Fax (613)
829-8518
E-mail: ag922(a)ncf.ca
Web:
http://www.mefmaction.net
_______________________________________________
Nmefman-contacts mailing list
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