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    The Scientist: Most Medical Papers Didn’t Disclose Industry Payments: Preprint 1/2022

    https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/most-medical-papers-didn-t-disclose-industry-payments-preprint-69635 here is the link to the actual preprint paper: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.09.12.21263468v2.full
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    Medscape: FDA Approves New Myasthenia Gravis Drug

    I found the full text of the study on Sci-Hub. I am reading it and it is a very interesting paper.
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    Back to the Future? Immunoglobulin Therapy for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, 2021, Brownlie and Speight

    What a informative and interesting video! thanks, @Hubris. I really appreciated Angela Vincent's clear communication of her knowledge. They also discuss the difficulties and of following antibody levels over time in a patient and the importance of case study publications and more. @FMMM1, I...
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    Toxseek: Screening and Research-Fibromyalgia Study

    I know nothing about the group, but when I clicked thru to my country page, they wanted a fee of around 100 euros for the test. They are giving a slight discount off of their "regular" price.
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    MedRx preprint… Breakthrough SARS-CoV-2 infections in 620,000 U.S. Veterans, February 1, 2021 to August 13, 2021

    here is one of their graphs (for the year 2021)… I wonder what the story is on the J&J (Janssen) vaccine:
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    MedRx preprint… Breakthrough SARS-CoV-2 infections in 620,000 U.S. Veterans, February 1, 2021 to August 13, 2021

    MedRx prerpint… Breakthrough SARS-CoV-2 infections in 620,000 U.S. Veterans, February 1, 2021 to August 13, 2021 here is a summary: https://www.phi.org/press/breakthrough-infection-study-of-over-600000-veterans-shows-declining-covid-19-vaccine-protection/ and the pre-print paper...
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    [Blog] BACME, NHS ME/CFS clinics shift from deconditioning to dysregulation model of ME/CFS in anticipation of updated NICE Guideline

    wouldn't a dysregulation have to occur in a location or system that would cause downstream effects that reflect the heterogeneous nature of the symptoms of ME? if so, where/what etc…?
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    Ganglionic Acetylcholine Receptor Antibodies in Postural Tachycardia Syndrome. Bryarly et al. 8/2021

    https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34484936/ Abstract Objective: Postural tachycardia syndrome (POTS), the most common form of dysautonomia, may be associated with autoimmunity in some cases. Autoantibodies against the ganglionic acetylcholine receptor (gAChR) have been reported in a minority of...
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    Havana Syndrome: U.S. and Canadian diplomats targeted with possible weapon causing brain injury and neurological symptoms

    here is an excerpt from the New Yorker magazine article: “Vienna has long been a den of spies. The city is home to many large U.N. agencies, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, and the International Atomic Energy Agency, among other international bodies that employ officials...
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    Passive transfer of fibromyalgia symptoms from patients to mice, 2021, Goebel et al

    I noticed that it looks like this paper was put up as a pre-print in July 2019: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/713495v1 so, they must have made changes. In skimming the preprint, I did not notice the small fiber density data in the preprint…
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    Passive transfer of fibromyalgia symptoms from patients to mice, 2021, Goebel et al

    I watched a introductory video of one of the senior authors, Camilla I. Svensson, where she mentioned that her research interest the fibromyalgia pain field and "what if there was a factor in the blood contributing to this disease?".
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    Passive transfer of fibromyalgia symptoms from patients to mice, 2021, Goebel et al

    the first author, Andreas Gobel: https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/pain-research-institute/our-people/andreas-goebel/
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    Passive transfer of fibromyalgia symptoms from patients to mice, 2021, Goebel et al

    the "Discussion Section" of the paper ends with this speculation: …The identification of a pivotal role for autoreactive IgG in the pathophysiology of FMS may transform future research and facilitate development of mechanism-based therapeutic interventions. Our results suggest that therapies...
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    Passive transfer of fibromyalgia symptoms from patients to mice, 2021, Goebel et al

    @Dolphin, very informative twitter thread, thanks for posting it.
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    Effects of a mindfulness-based and acceptance-based group programme followed by physical activity for patients with fibromyalgia, 2021, Haugmark et al

    and this from the discussion section (PA = physical activity): "There was a high drop-out rate from the PA intervention. Further, studies on how to adapt and tailor PA interventions to patients with FM are needed." I interpret this as meaning that people dropped out of the study because of...
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    Effects of a mindfulness-based and acceptance-based group programme followed by physical activity for patients with fibromyalgia, 2021, Haugmark et al

    here is a quote from the "discussion section" (PA= physical activity): "……. it was hypothesised that the lack of effects in patients with FM might have been related to living with distressing symptoms over a long time without receiving any diagnosis. The present study aimed to improve the...
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    Effects of a mindfulness-based and acceptance-based group programme followed by physical activity for patients with fibromyalgia, 2021, Haugmark et al

    Abstract Introduction: Non-pharmacological approaches are recommended as first-line treatment for patients with fibromyalgia. This randomised controlled trial investigated the effects of a multicomponent rehabilitation programme for patients with recently diagnosed fibromyalgia in primary and...
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    News about Long Covid including its relationship to ME/CFS 2020 to 2021

    Dr. Griffin also said that United States physicians need to be aware of that a medical code for Long COVID Will not be officially available until October 2021 and until that time period a different code was to used. It’s one of those seemingly small things that I’m sure makes a huge difference...
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    Blog series: "Orthodoxy on trial: the pathogenesis of a diagnosis" by David Black

    I think this is the thread @chrisb is referring to: https://www.s4me.info/threads/illness-behaviour-a-multidisciplinary-approach-mchugh-and-vallis-edit-1986.17996/#post-305704
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    UK: Medicinal cannabis on prescription

    Here is some government funded research being conducted in Colorado, USA. https://cdphe.colorado.gov/prevention-and-wellness/marijuana/marijuana-research/approved-medical-marijuana-research-grants
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