Dear Supporters,

We have finally heard back from Elsevier after contacting their Board of Directors in November 2024.  The following letter was received on 11 February 2025, from Elsevier's London address:

Dear Mrs Ashenfelter

Thank you for contacting Elsevier to highlight the petition at change.org calling for changes in the way ME/CFS is handled in Kumar and Clark’s Clinical Medicine.  The book’s editors are aware of the petition, and of the strength of feeling held by many ME/CFS patients and their friends and family members about the way the condition has traditionally been approached within the medical profession.

They have borne this in mind when producing the next (11th) edition of the book, which is due to be published in 2025.  They have worked with the specialist chapter authors to produce content which addresses the concerns of patient groups, whilst being based on the range of published literature and contemporary treatment approaches within the field.

Yours Sincerely,

Vice President Global Medical Education Content

We will have to wait and see what the 'content which addresses the concerns of patient groups' will be in the next edition.

Please keep signing and circulating the petition until a breakthrough is made.