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Stora Sköndal to temporarily stop accepting new patients Less than a month ago Stora Sköndal ME/CFS Center in Stockholm, Sweden, filed a request to temporarily stop accepting new patients. The reason given is that their waitlist has been growing uncontrollably lately, because of all the...

Bragée ME/CFS-Center in Stockholm, Sweden, is (probably) closing. They gave official notice of termination of their agreement with Stockholm County Council in the beginning of March, which means that they will be closing in September unless Stockholm County Council changes their mind and agrees...

Sorry! Thanks for letting me know. They did show up for me earlier today, I'm not sure what changed? I've edited my post now. Are the images showing up now?

Their application to the ethics review board has a lot of details about the hows and the whys (47 pages, all in Swedish). Here are some excerpts: (Edited to replace image links with uploaded image files.)

Dr Per Julin, the study director, is one of the very best biomedical ME specialists there are in Sweden, so this is definitely no joke :)

Värmlands Folkblad: Dags att synliggöra ME https://www.vf.se/insandare/dags-att-synliggora-me/ Google translate, English ("Time to make ME visible")...

And here are a couple of tweets by Helmfrid (thank you!) in response to Reimer's SVT.se opinion piece earlier today:

Speaking of Reimer. Sten Helmfrid published this brilliant article last month: Mats Reimers blogg på Dagens Medicin ger en systematiskt missvisande bild av ME/CFS https://www.researchgate.net/publication/323689529_Mats_Reimers_blogg_pa_Dagens_Medicin_ger_en_systematiskt_missvisande_bild_av_MECFS

SVT.se: "Inte klarlagt att kroniskt trötthetssyndrom är en fysisk sjukdom" https://www.svt.se/opinion/article17674467.svt "Not determined that ME/CFS is a physical disease" (Google Translate not available) Reimer is one of the most notorious BPS extremists in Sweden.

Läkartidningen: "Debatt: Släpp in funktionella neurologiska tillstånd i neurologins finrum" by Carl Sjöström and Anders Lundin. http://www.lakartidningen.se/Opinion/Debatt/2018/01/Slapp-in-funktionella-neurologiska-tillstand-i-neurologins-finrum/ Google Translate, English Journal of the Swedish...

"This survey will be open until the end of July." according to Leonard Jason's post on Facebook.

Uppgång: Inget botemedel finns för Jenny http://www.uppgang.com/nyheter/enkoping/inget-botemedel-finns-for-jenny-4946920.aspx Google Translate, English ("There is no cure for Jenny")...

Done :) It took me several hours (not including the many long breaks). Very hard work, and I wrote several long comments too. I think it's really great that they are interested in trying to improve the definition and understanding of PEM (super important for so many different reasons!), and...

Aftonbladet: Kronisk trötthet inte bättre av träning https://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/9mMrRl/kronisk-trotthet-inte-battre-av-traning Google Translate, English ("Chronic Fatigue not improved by exercise")...

Using capitals to separate words in hashtags is very important for screen readers (apps etc that convert text into synthesized speech) to function properly. Having said that, I agree. The simpler the better :) ETA: Brilliant idea/thread, @Kalliope! Definitely worth a try! I would join in, use...

Yes, it worked for me.

This Swedish article (published today) is based on the UK articles above. Expressen: Mamman vill att alla ska se bilderna på dottern https://www.expressen.se/omtalat/mamman-vill-att-alla-ska-se-bilderna-pa-sin-doende-dotter-/ Google Translate, English ("The mother wants everyone to see the...

An article in Sweden today, based on the UK articles about Merryn Croft (s4me thread here) Expressen: Mamman vill att alla ska se bilderna på dottern https://www.expressen.se/omtalat/mamman-vill-att-alla-ska-se-bilderna-pa-sin-doende-dotter-/ Google Translate, English ("The mother wants...

Donated (wish I had more to give). Thank you so much for all your hard work, @dave30th! Brilliant, and incredibly valuable.