This is actually very interesting, and quite a significant sample size. A few points from a very, very quick skim: the sample was not only...
Small sample size (32) that is significantly lower than the anticipated sample size at trial registration (80). Participants were asked to rate...
Natelson ran a couple of placebo phase-in trials (of phenelzine and selegiline) in broadly defined CFS cohorts in the 1990s - the phase-in design...
If I remember correctly, that's the one where virtually every guest has something to sell. There is a great deal of desperation out there; many...
Letter in the Lancet by David Tuller & Joan Crawford, with a reply from the authors:...
Abstract: T cells have emerged as orchestrators of pain amplification, but the mechanism by which T cells control pain processing is unresolved....
"BMJ published paper highlights key findings from The MEA’s Count ME In survey" (MEA) "Earlier diagnosis and better care needed for ME and Long...
From HB's blog, today: https://hildabastian.wordpress.com/2025/04/03/getting-through-hard-times/
Abstract The British National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) published its updated guidelines for myalgic...
Article in Salon today: "Trump admin's attacks on chronic disease research abandons long COVID and ME/CFS patients... Again Budget cuts and the...
MEA update on the new end-of-June publication timeline, which apparently "follows requests from the Task and Finish Group members to allow for...
"Trial By Error: New Study Documents Iatrogenic Harm from Perceived Psychosomatic and Psychiatric Misdiagnoses of Rheumatic Diseases":...
David Black on O'Sullivan, the DWP, as well as some of the history (even mentions SW & the Woodstock conference):...
A poster presentation about a feasibility study of pacing with a heart-rate monitor by Physios for ME: Link __ In the same journal supplement it...
Merged thread Long COVID Risk Loci Implicated from Genome-Wide Association Studies of COVID-19 Susceptibility and Hospitalization Abstract:...
Vink M, Vink-Niese F. Are cognitive behavioral therapy and a group physical and mental health rehabilitation programme effective treatments for...
Yeah, n=13 for fatigue, 7 of those with amantadine. Here's the table of treatments for each indication: [ATTACH]
"Two age peaks in the incidence of chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis: a population-based registry study from Norway 2008-2012"...
On US studies exploring overdiagnosis - there's this Komaroff et al paper that surveyed nurses: "Over-diagnosis also was common: four times as...
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