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    UK: Public Services Performance Tracker 2022

    Performance Tracker 2022 "Ahead of the government's medium-term fiscal plan, the annual Institute for Government/Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA) public services stocktake reveals that public services won’t have returned to pre-pandemic performance by the next...
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    ME/CFS services in the United Kingdom

    This is the service description: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) and Fibromyalgia (FMS) Service "What are Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia ? They are chronic conditions (lasting months or years) which affect daily functioning and involve chronic fatigue not much relieved by rest...
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    United Kingdom - Thérèse Coffey appointed Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Sept 2022

    The extension of prescribing regulations in the UK dates back to 2006 for pharmacists and some nurses, under the Independent Prescriber legislation: Pharmacist independent prescriber while the general principal of the nurse prescriber goes back to a 1986 report: Prescribing practice: an...
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    United Kingdom - Thérèse Coffey appointed Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Sept 2022

    It's not as simple as the stroke of pen, there's a bureaucratic process to go through involving The Commission on Human Medicines For the Minister to not follow the Commission's advice would be a major political issue.
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    Fatigue as the unconscious refusal of the demands of late capitalism, 2021, Diserholt

    The answer even within the theoretic model being applied would be something like "yes of course fatigue was experienced but the experience would have had different contexts each of which would have involved different forms of legitimacy and validity". I don't know enough about Lacan to give a...
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    United Kingdom - Thérèse Coffey appointed Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Sept 2022

    The proposition seems so improbable that a cynic might say that it is simply a "dead cat" story diverting attention from elsewhere. Even if that is the case it is still highly problematic to have the area of government that should be the least contentious, being used in this way. The concern I...
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    JK Rowling new book — chronic illness references

    To be fair I think she had plagarised read a lot of E. Nesbitt, R. Kipling, CS Lewis and TH White, though sadly she seems to have missed out Richmal Crompton from the canon of early 20thC writing for young people - otherwise she might have picked up the art of not being so utterly po faced.
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    United Kingdom - Thérèse Coffey appointed Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Sept 2022

    This is almost "can we inject bleach" level of dangerousness in a politician:
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    A saturated map of common genetic variants associated with human height, 2022, Yengo et al

    A saturated map of common genetic variants associated with human height Loic Yengo and others (multiple) Abstract Common single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are predicted to collectively explain 40–50% of phenotypic variation in human height, but identifying the specific variants and...
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    Ampligen in Phase 2 Clinical Study for the Treatment of Post-COVID Conditions

    So it would seem. A partial list: https://bergermontague.com/cases/hemispherx-biopharma-inc-securities-litigation/ https://casetext.com/case/hemispherx-biopharma-v-bioclones https://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/lawsuit/hemispherx-biopharma-inc-heb-securities-2.html...
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    Open Interpersonal relationships, stress and symptoms in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS/ME)

    deleted --- multiple swear words (mine) ----- deleted Interpersonal relationships, stress and symptoms in CFS/ME - Health Research Authority (hra.nhs.uk) "Interpersonal relationships, stress and symptoms in CFS/ME Research summary Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (also known as myalgic...
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    Evidence that M.E. isn’t contagious?

    Not just the NHS. A ban on blood donation was brought in, in a number of countries following the XMRV debacle, Wikipedia is accurate on this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronic_fatigue_syndrome#Blood_donation "In 2010, several national blood banks adopted measures to discourage or prohibit...
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    Evidence that M.E. isn’t contagious?

    Normally I'd say that sort of question in a close relationship requires a slap round the face with a wet fish (him not you) but assuming he's worth hanging onto, this is what I would say as an explanation based on the available evidence: 'while an initial infection is implicated in the onset...
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    Ampligen in Phase 2 Clinical Study for the Treatment of Post-COVID Conditions

    After almost 50 years rintatolimod is still a cure in search of a disease.
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    The Costs of Long COVID, 2022, Cutler

    There's cross over with this thread: https://www.s4me.info/threads/chronic-illness-makes-uk-workforce-the-sickest-in-developed-world.28736/ esp.this post: https://www.s4me.info/threads/chronic-illness-makes-uk-workforce-the-sickest-in-developed-world.28736/#post-441347 The picture of where in...
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    Chronic illness makes UK workforce the sickest in developed world

    With unemployment historically low but with rapid increases in prices, those who have no choice but to stay in work will be taking every opportunity to move from lower paying jobs to higher paid ones, and lower paid jobs remaining unfilled because of the difficulties of work force/job matching...
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    How growth mindset shrank

    Blog from Stuart Richie How growth mindset shrank Nuanced take on a major psychological hype - has relevance to hard sciences as well: "People can change. That’s the basic idea of “growth mindset”, an idea which is now utterly unavoidable in any educational context: schools train teachers in...
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    Chronic illness makes UK workforce the sickest in developed world

    This article (may be paywalled depending on previous access etc) The shrinking workforce is another very British problem presents some of the complexity: "One crumb of comfort in this has been the perception that we are all in it together, and that other countries are experiencing similar...
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    Fatigue as the unconscious refusal of the demands of late capitalism, 2021, Diserholt

    Diserholt's Linked In page says she lecturing at Strathclyde but her name doesn't come up on the staff lists there, although she has a couple of shared authorships with current staff. There is this: Lacan in Scotland
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    Covid-19 vaccines and vaccinations

    Moved post Ofcom investigation into GB News’ Mark Steyn programme "Ofcom has today opened an investigation into an episode of the Mark Steyn programme broadcast on GB News on 4 October 2022. We consider that comments made during an interview with author and journalist Dr Naomi Wolf about the...
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