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    A general thread on the PACE trial!

    I seem to recall White had health problems (cancer?) which may explain why he has been relatively quiet.
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    A general thread on the PACE trial!

    He was a co-author with White in 2007. 'Trends in European labour markets and preferences over unemployment and inflation,' Bank of England Quarterly Bulletin, 2007Q4, pp. 582-591, 47(4). With Douglas Staiger and Peter D. White, 'Nurse pay and quality of care,' working paper. From his CV...
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    Myalgic Encephalomyelitis or What? The International Consensus Criteria (Frank Twisk, 2019)

    Here's an earlier paper by Twisk: Front Physiol. 2014 Mar 27;5:109. doi: 10.3389/fphys.2014.00109. eCollection 2014. The status of and future research into Myalgic Encephalomyelitis and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: the need of accurate diagnosis, objective assessment, and acknowledging biological...
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    Interesting review of two books on social psychology

    It's from the Times Literary Supplement and by Andrew Scull. https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/egos-experiments-social-psychology/ Review of
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    What could be done about the Science Media Centre (SMC) in the UK

    I have tried a bit on this. When Amol Rajan became the presenter of the Media Show on BBC, I sent him an email. No reply. I sent an adapted version to Jim Waterson when he was appointed media editor of The Guardian. Same lack of response. It's one of those things I want to spend more time on...
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    Closed Forward ME Group CBT/GET Survey - Tell NICE your experiences

    Moderator note: post from this thread moved to one of its own Complaint about process of NICE review of ME/CFS Guidelines Two short posts asking if the original referred to the survey then made no sense and so were deleted.
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    Live vaccines and a wider effect

    That is very interesting. I remember reading of another similar survey in NY city that showed how infections and rates of mortality went down for the three years following measles vaccination.
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    Blog: Changing the narrative #1: exploring a new approach to strategic communications in the ME community, by Valerie Eliot Smith

    I think the blog sounds outdated. It doesn't take into account the much fairer coverage there has been in the media and the slow dying of the 'dangerous militants' narrative, which she has in fact breathed life into once again. I think the blog is damaging.
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    ME Association Website Survey: What are the most important things a GP needs to know about M.E.? | 08 January 2019

    Hi, Russ, thanks for the reply. Hope you're doing OK. Yes, I know some do use medication and have no problems with that as an option. It was the combining of the two different issues that made it impossible for me to pick what I wanted to select. Sure, I could do that.
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    ME Association Website Survey: What are the most important things a GP needs to know about M.E.? | 08 January 2019

    Moderator note: A new thread on the N & S resources for GPs has been started here https://www.s4me.info/threads/resources-for-gps-by-norfolk-suffolk-me-and-cfs-services.7599/
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    Persistent fatigue induced by interferon-alpha: A novel, inflammation-based, proxy model of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, 2018, Pariante et al

    Moderator note: posts on speech to AfME Conference 2014 by Gabrielle Murphy moved to new thread here: https://www.s4me.info/threads/speech-to-me-research-practice-conference-2014-gabrielle-murphy.7597/
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    ME Association Website Survey: What are the most important things a GP needs to know about M.E.? | 08 January 2019

    The closest it gets is point 2: An understanding of the impact of symptoms and awareness of pharmacological symptom management But I don't understand why these two quite separate issues are joined together in one point. I absolutely want GPs to have a proper understanding of the impact of...
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    Blog: Changing the narrative #1: exploring a new approach to strategic communications in the ME community, by Valerie Eliot Smith

    Agree we need to see what follows in next two blogs, but I would point out that an 'advocate' is hard to define and no one decides who is and is not an advocate or what work any advocate does (or indeed the approach they take). It's all about those able to make a contribution finding ways they...
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    Caroline Struthers' correspondence and blog on the Cochrane Review: 'Exercise therapy for chronic fatigue syndrome, 2017 and 2019, Larun et al.

    Excellent blog on this by @Lucibee Why use of subjective measures in clinical trials can be problematic https://lucibee.wordpress.com/2019/01/08/why-use-of-subjective-measures-in-clinical-trials-can-be-problematic/
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    FOI request re PACE Cost-Effectiveness Analysis

    The file is a bit odd. I have done a screenshot of the body of the email sent in reply to the request for guidance. The original request has been redacted.
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    FOI request re PACE Cost-Effectiveness Analysis

    I'm hoping that enough pressure can be put on them to share the data.
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