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Long Covid SOS, one of the Long Covid charities represented at the UK Covid Inquiry, posted on Twitter. "Today we found out that @BorisJohnson scrawled 'BOLLOCKS’ across a @DHSCgovuk document about #LongCovid He admitted in his witness statement that he didn’t believe #LongCovid ‘truly existed’...

8,199 signatures at time of posting. https://www.change.org/p/cochrane-withdraw-the-harmful-2019-exercise-therapy-for-cfs-review

8,149 signatures at time of posting. https://www.change.org/p/cochrane-withdraw-the-harmful-2019-exercise-therapy-for-cfs-review

"Antibiotic use can increase chances of MCAS flares. MCAS flares can also lead to polyreactivity and loss of oral tolerance. Planning for negative side-effects is an key part of the @remissionbiome safety plan." https://x.com/chydorina/status/1708585382013792320?s=20 First do no harm, unless...

Published papers thread for w/c 25th Sept. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sci4me/posts/pfbid02c5vVD3SM84LHEi7CnLrSNSHLF7kmtW9VRJ164N5bLEDzUBRVmm3v6c1WEb9BbKLUl Mastodon: https://med-mastodon.com/@s4me/111164552103999065

First Clare Francis Research fellowship awarded "Audrey’s research project will try to identify and characterise factors in the blood of patients that may be responsible for disturbing their mitochondria. Equally important, if Audrey can show that such a factor exists, this could provide a...

"While estimates of how many people have ME/CFS vary, it is thought that around 0.4-1% of the population is affected. This means that up to 250,000 Australians have the condition." https://www.emerge.org.au/what-is-mecfs/ Up to 1%??? Do we know that Australians are particularly likely to...

In sheep. BACKGROUND: The phrase complete vagal withdrawal is often used when discussing autonomic control of the heart during exercise. However, more recent studies have challenged this assumption. We hypothesized that cardiac vagal activity increases during exercise and maintains cardiac...

8,108 signatures at time of posting. https://www.change.org/p/cochrane-withdraw-the-harmful-2019-exercise-therapy-for-cfs-review

No, we don't have such a thread. If I started one I think I would be inclined to put it here, https://www.s4me.info/forums/psychosomatic-news-me-cfs-and-long-covid.27/

There seems to be yet another themed edition of a journal centered around FND. Rather than flood the forum with them, the table of contents can be found here, https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/neurologic-clinics/vol/41/issue/4 where you can find the following delights: Lessons from a...

Abstract The idea that a neurologist would do an 'FND clinic' or that functional neurological disorder (FND) could be a subspecialty of neurology would have been outlandish even 20 years ago but has become a reality in many places around the world. In this personal review, I reflect on 25 years...

Abstract Functional movement disorder (FMD) is a common, potentially reversible source of disability in neurology. Over the last two decades, there have been major advances in our understanding of the clinical picture, diagnosis, and management of this condition. Motor presentation is...

Background Older adults reporting higher energy levels have better physical function. It is not known if these associations persist among older adults reporting fatigue or if higher energy is associated with cognitive function. We examined longitudinal associations between self-reported energy...

Long COVID (coronavirus disease 2019) syndrome, also known as post-acute sequelae of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection, is a new disorder that can develop after an acute infection with the SARS-CoV-2 virus. The condition is characterized by multiorgan system...

News in Brief posts for w/c 25th Sept. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sci4me/posts/pfbid031P4zPyjqEPapsZqT1fBLDYL7u4KbNDDssrem5zCzfjbX8ajCUkEKbUwZ92k2uTmAl Mastodon: https://med-mastodon.com/@s4me/111158986455488941

Monthly News in Brief post on Reddit, https://www.reddit.com/r/cfs/comments/16wvht6/news_in_brief_posts_for_september_2023_covering/

Background Treating functional movement disorder (FMD) with motor retraining is effective but resource intensive. Objectives Identify patient, disease, and program variables associated with favorable treatment outcomes. Methods Retrospective review of the 1 week intensive outpatient FMD...

Background Functional movement disorders (FMD) are associated with a high prevalence of psychiatric comorbidities. Objective To assess the frequency of obsessive-compulsive symptoms (OCS) in FMD. Methods A total of 167 consecutive patients with clinically definite FMD (mean age = 44.4 years...

"Introduction Fatigue is one of the most common symptoms experienced by people with a range of clinical conditions, for example, post-stroke fatigue affects up to 50% of stroke survivors1 . Fatigue has also been estimated to affect up to 17% of the general population2 . In the clinical...