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The Norwegian Nursing Journal has an interview with the new general secretary of the Norwegian ME Association, Grethe Reinhardtsen. She has background as a psychiatric nurse and from politics. She wants to get ME recognised and better understood and says medical research into ME needs to be...

I don't have access to the news article, but she says in a public post on Facebook where she shares the article that she is about to start with ceramics, but that cancer and treatment and many years with illness have taken a toll and that she has to undergo more surgery. So she's better, but not...

Very disappointed to see Nina Langeland among the authors. She has been researching post infectious illness since an outbreak of giardia in Bergen, Norway in 2004. She was one of the first doctors/researchers to warn against Long Covid.

Good to see them mention prevention in the abstract. I was hoping they would advice testing, enabling people to stay home when sick, masks, improvement of indoor ventilation etc, but in the paper they say: The best strategy is surely to avoid infections all together, unless someone is able to...

I wonder if what was implied from the GP is that he believes people might have gotten more worried and fussy about their health because a big deal was made out of mild symptoms.

The Norwegian Institute of Public Health (FHI) is behind this review and had an article yesterday about it which was picked up by the newspaper Klassekampen. The newspaper boiled it down to - smiling leads to less inflammation -, so that seems to be the message. I'm pretty sure we'll se this...

Abstract There is growing interest in how well-being-enhancing activities influence stress and health. Positive psychology interventions (PPIs) foster such activities, but evidence regarding their physiological effects remains fragmented. This review aimed to examine the effects of PPIs on two...

Some media coverage today on the study. The public broadcaster NRK has interviewed first author Richard Aubrey White who works at the Norwegian Institute for Public Health. Consultations with doctors have increased with 7.1% in 2024, compared with before the pandemic. There is an increase for...

The paper has now been published: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13690-025-01817-8

already been shown in a Swedish study on increased risk of MS after being hospitalised with Covid-19. As MS is a disease it usually takes years to develop, I too wonder if we will start seeing it also in cases where Covid-19 survivors weren't hospitalised during the acute infection.

Opinion piece today in the journal of the Norwegian Medical Association. Ola Didrik Saugstad, Donia Jamal Ramadan and Mare Kathrine Viken have written a summary of recent developments, hypothesis and findings from research into ME. They say there are possibilities for targeted treatments, that...

IFLScience What Causes All The Symptoms Of Long Covid And ME/CFS? The Brainstem Could Be The Key - by Laura Simmons Quote ME/CFS and the closely related long COVID could be caused by damage to the brainstem, according to a new scientific theory. If their new model turns out to be right, the...

Nina E. Steinkopf has today published a letter to the editor regarding the lightning process and this study Letter to editor regarding the lightning process quote: In the article “An audit of 12 cases of long COVID following the lightning process intervention examining benefits and harms” the...

Abstract Context Thyroid disease has been reported as a complication associated with acute SARS-CoV-2 infection. Objective This study evaluated the long-term risk of incident thyroid dysfunction after COVID-19 in patients without pre-existing thyroid disease. Methods Patients without prior...

Great. They published the paper "Activity monitoring and patient-reported outcome measures in ME/CFS patients" in 2022 in order to learn more about symptom variations (thread here). But I'm sure more background studies like this must be very useful.

Thank you for posting this. There's so much confusing information on this topic.

Trial by Error by David Tuller: More on the Canadian Long COVID Trial with Plans to Lie to Participants Receiving an Exercise Intervention Quote: I thought this new trial, led by investigators from Western University in London, Ontario, warranted further comment. If the description in the...

I so agree with you and have thought the same many times. This is very little money to invest compared with how much we could be bragging about it afterwards.

Putting this article in the "General ME/CFS News" section as it mentions ME several times. Some of the article is behind paywall. Quotes: To better understand fatigue, Pessiglione, Chib and other researchers are trying to bridge an understanding of its biochemical workings with how it affects...

Thank you @ahimsa ! I'm glad the article also asks what happened with the large US funding for long Covid research. I remember a Nature editorial a few years back warning against repeating the mistakes that have been made towards ME patients.