Media Highlights: National and Regional Media Coverage Continues

The Spark campaign continues to garner positive media coverage about CFS. Find details on all the stories in print, radio, TV and online outlets catalogued at http://www.cfids.org/sparkcfs/media-coverage.asp.

You can also sign up to receive alerts about coverage coming to your area by joining our Grassroots Action Center listserv at http://capwiz.com/cfids/mlm/signup/.

Here are just a few of the May media events of note:

Syndicated Radio Program Features CFS Expert
"Lou Adler's Medical Journal," a nationally syndicated radio show heard on 59 stations and the Armed Forces Radio Network, recently featured two segments on CFS. Dr. Alan Pocinki, a Washington, D.C. internist who sees many CFS patients in his general medical practice, was the guest on segments that aired on May 1 and 2.
National alert sent to Grassroots Action Center subscribers on 4/23.

Salt Lake City Radio Station Promotes CFS Conference
On May 1, CFS & fibromyalgia expert Dr. Lucinda Bateman was featured on "Newsmakers at Nine" program on KNRS 570-AM radio. Dr. Bateman and CFS patient Kathy Jensen discussed CFS and conferences taking place this weekend in the Salt Lake City area. The program is archived on the station's website at http://www.knrs.com/pages/abby.html.

For more information about the Organization for Fatigue and Fibromyalgia Education & Research conferences, please visit http://www.offerutah.org/Conference.html.
Alert sent to Grassroots Action Center subscribers in Utah on 4/30.

New Jersey Comcast Cable Covers CFS throughout May
Comcast Cable customers in Essex, Union, Hudson and Middlesex counties in New Jersey can tune in to see Dr. Benjamin Natelson, CFS physician and researcher at University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. Dr. Natelson will be featured as a "Comcast Newsmaker" on two segments of that program to air in May during CNN Headline News. He is a professor of Neurosciences at New Jersey Medical School, has obtained several NIH grants to support his CFS research group and has authored two books about CFS.
 
The first segment featuring Dr. Natelson is titled "Chronic Fatigue Syndrome" and will air beginning Wednesday, May 2. It will run 2-3 times daily at :55 of the hour for one week. The second segment is titled "Sleep and Immune Function" and airs beginning Wednesday, May 16, for one week, also at :55 of the hour, 2-3 times a day. (We do not have program information for specific hours of the day when either segment will air.)
Alert sent to Grassroots Action Center subscribers in New Jersey on 4/20.

Ozarks Public Television to Air CFS program
CFS patient Kristy Burton-Vunesky will be featured on a segment of "HealthStyles," a program produced by Ozarks Public Television. The crew filmed Burton-Vunesky going about her daily activities and discussing the severe impact chronic fatigue syndrome has had on her life.

The show will air several times on two Missouri stations over the next few weeks. KOKZ, channel 21, out of Springfield and KOJZ, channel 26, broadcast from Joplin, will carry the program. Following are scheduled air dates and times, but it’s best to verify these with local listings in case changes are made. Unfortunately, the program will not be archived on the stations' websites. It may also run in early 2008, but dates have not yet been set.    

Scheduled air dates:
     Friday, May 4 at 7 p.m.
     Saturday, May 5 at 6:30 a.m.
     Friday, May 18 at 7 p.m.
     Saturday, May 18 at 6:30 a.m.

Alert sent to Grassroots Action Center subscribers in Missouri on 4/20

CFS Facts Covered in Magazine to 50,000 Physicians
The May issue of the ACP Observer, a publication of the American College of Physicians, covers CFS in a lengthy article by Jessica Berthold titled, "Putting chronic fatigue syndrome's myths to bed." In addition to interviews with CFS experts Dr. Lucinda Bateman and Dr. Anthony Komaroff, Berthold provides facts and statements from thought leaders affirming the "realities" of CFS. ACP Observer reaches 50,000 internal medicine physicians with its print publication and thousands of others through its web site. The article can be viewed and printed at http://www.acponline.org/journals/news/may07/fatigue.htm