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The tangled story of ME CFS: Controversy, Denigration and Ignorance Original is now available on YouTube. Shared by the Dialogues team on Twitter,

"Participants with ongoing symptoms lasting ≥12 weeks following COVID-19 reported worse current health, including a higher number of symptoms within the last two weeks, and greater reduction in ability to carry out daily activities due to these symptoms (Table 2). Post-exertional malaise...

From one of his tweets recently, where he reported ordering and receiving large quantities, I suspect that he might be part of BigOat himself.

Registration now open for NIH ME/CFS Research Conference, Dec 12-13 "Registration is now open for the upcoming research conference, “Advancing ME/CFS Research: Identifying Targets for Intervention and Learning from Long COVID,” which will take place on December 12-13, 2023 at NIH Campus in...

£8m to speed up research into new treatments for Motor Neurone Disease (MND) "NIHR is announcing its next major step in new government action to speed up research into Motor Neurone Disease (MND). This is part of a £50 million commitment to MND research over 5 years - by the Department of...

Trial By Error: A Crap Study on “Psychosomatic Therapy” for “Persistent Somatic Symptoms” "Dutch investigators appear to be on a roll—they are producing so much crap that it is hard to keep track. (I have recently written multiple posts about a Dutch study of CBT for fatigue associated with...

Full title: Elevated indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase activity is associated with endothelial dysfunction in people living with HIV and ROS production in human aortic endothelial cells in vitro The precise role of indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase (IDO) in cardiovascular diseases (CVD) among people living...

Theme 1a. Giving me knowledge So something perfectly safe to tell anybody with ME/CFS who has been misdiagnosed then.... Shame that any 'scientific' explanation given to them will be merely wishful thinking on behalf of the professional.

Abstract Purpose People with functional movement disorders (FMD) are commonly seen in neurology clinics. Despite a recent increase in research, no standardised treatment pathway across the UK exists. Currently only a few qualitative studies in FMD with a focus on psychological aspects and...

Of possible interest is that these researchers are based at Aarhus University.

Full title: B-vitamins, related vitamers, and metabolites in patients with quiescent inflammatory bowel disease and chronic fatigue treated with high dose oral thiamine Background High doses of oral thiamine improve clinical fatigue scores in patients with quiescent inflammatory bowel disease...

And Twitter post

Sure, but using overblown statements will just make us look like undeserving conspiracy theorists and reduce the chances of success.

9,042 signatures at time of posting. https://www.change.org/p/cochrane-withdraw-the-harmful-2019-exercise-therapy-for-cfs-review Social media posts promoting the latest petition update. Facebook...

I disagree, compare the 2007 NICE guideline to the 2020 version - change and progress quite clearly happened there.

Right, so not the entire medical profession, and therefore not the entire medical system, how else do you explain the progress that has been made with NICE and elsewhere? And further efforts to improve the situation aren't helped by making over the top statements; we should leave the...

The entire medical profession? Every single one? There is not one person in the medical profession who is treating patients differently?

Brain Atlas Paves the Way for New Understanding of How the Brain Functions "When NIH launched The BRAIN Initiative® a decade ago, one of many ambitious goals was to develop innovative technologies for profiling single cells to create an open-access reference atlas cataloguing the human brain’s...