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COVID-19 disease, caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), induces a broad spectrum of clinical symptoms ranging from asymptomatic cases to fatal outcomes. About 10–35% of all COVID-19 patients, even those with mild COVID-19 symptoms, continue to show symptoms...

Full title: Hierarchical Cluster Analysis Based on Clinical and Neuropsychological Symptoms Reveals Distinct Subgroups in Fibromyalgia: A Population-Based Cohort Study Abstract Fibromyalgia (FM) is a condition characterized by musculoskeletal pain and multiple comorbidities. Our study aimed to...

Preprint: Quantitative errors in the Cochrane review on "Physical interventions to interrupt or reduce the spread of respiratory viruses" The COVID-19 pandemic has brought a heightened sense of urgency in the scientific community regarding the need to advance understanding and prevention of...

9,073 signatures at time of posting. https://www.change.org/p/cochrane-withdraw-the-harmful-2019-exercise-therapy-for-cfs-review

Selected quotes. "Chronic Symptoms Following Infections Infections can sometimes leave people with symptoms that last for weeks to months or longer, even after appropriate treatment. Some of these symptoms are well-recognized and specific to the type of infection, for example, loss of smell...

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.