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A rather precise summary of the BPS model in the review: The relationship between the role of biological, psychological and social factors in people's well-being is a recurring theme. But questions about how these are related and their respective meaning are often left hanging in the air, and...

Description: David Tuller returns to TWiV to provide an update on ME/CFS, the PACE trial, developments related to the NICE guidelines, and how similar practices and ideologies are being applied to long COVID.

Sorry. No idea..

Thank you @John Mac and @rvallee Yes, that makes sense!

I don't quite understand these numbers. I thought previous ONS data had shown that the Long Covid prevalence in UK was around 2 million people. But here it seems to be 400 000?

ONS: Rising ill-health and economic inactivity because of long-term sickness, UK: 2019 to 2023 1. Main points More working-age people are self-reporting long-term health conditions, with 36% saying that they had at least one long-term health condition in Quarter 1 (Jan to Mar) 2023, up from...

Yes, a very disappointing and naive article. A spokesperson from the clinic who offers this "treatment" says in the article that the patients are tested in the beginning in order to see if their health is good enough. "This in order to make them secure that there is nothing physically wrong from...

RNZ Prof Danny Altmann: the burden of long COVID quote: Another disease noted for similarities with long Covid is ME/CFS - myalgic encephalomyelitis, also known as chronic fatigue syndrome. "They are terribly similar. And it's really helpful and illuminating to join up those discussions,"...

TV2 has an article today about Kristine Kornelia Paulsen and her stay at Røysumtunet. The article describes her development from mono to severe ME, and that she has improved a bit at Røysumtunet. She is by the way also an awesome graphic designer who has made some terrific illustrations about...

No, it seems to be concerning the acute infection. But he seems to transfer it to Long Covid as well. I think this is the study: Experiencing COVID-19 symptoms without the disease: The role of nocebo in reporting og symptoms

The Norwegian news site Nettavisen had an article about Long Covid yesterday titled: "Long covid": normal bodily conditions may be interpreted as symptoms The article is behind paywall, so here's a summary: Researchers say that media articles, negative messages from the doctor and discussions...

oh, I'm sorry. Think I linked to the front page when this was top story. This link should get you to the article https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2023-07-17-collusion-to-exclude-long-covid-the-long-history-of-energy-limiting-disability-denial-by-insurance-firms/

oh, that's interesting. I was so ill I got hospitalised, had had 40 degrees in fever for a week with antibiotics and not feeling better. Throat so painful I couldn't drink so was dehydrated and liver and spleen enlarged. Suspected mono, but negative test at hospital. Later had antibodies. Hmm....

quote: We must go back more than five decades to understand how the venal back-scratching politics of one cabal of powerful men in the global medico-industrial complex led to what one British MP has called “one of the biggest medical scandals of the … century”...

Spotted this today on Twitter. It's the professor and psychologist Gerd Kvale sharing her opinions about Long Covid. Gerd Kvale has developed a fast version of CBT for anxiety and OCD, with good results in clinical trials. She has also published a paper with psychiatrist Bjarte Stubhaug (who...

Time Scientists Are Just Beginning to Understand COVID-19's Effect On the Brain quotes: If you were to look at the brain of someone infected by certain viruses, like rabies, you would see “virus teeming everywhere. It’s black and white” that the brain is infected, says Dr. Avindra Nath...

What a dreadful piece. I agree there are patterns being repeated here. Sometimes it's rather obvious, as in this opinion piece a few years ago in a medical newspaper asking if gender dysphoria is the new ME. google translated quote: A persistent search for imaginary somatic explanations can...

The Guardian 'No one is talking about it': the cruelty of long Covid in the global south quotes: As research focuses on richer parts of world, people in less developed countries suffer from lack of awareness and support .... Dr Caroline Hilari, who coordinates a long Covid study in children...

Nature Gene linked to long COVID found in analysis of thousands of patients quotes: It’s very important that this type of study is being done,” says Chris Ponting, who studies medical bioinformatics at the University of Edinburgh, UK. “It will gain momentum and greater power as the case number...

Thank you for the link @EndME The relationship between Long Covid and ME/CFS is discussed in a separate section: Box 3 Lessons from and for ME/CFS and the case of ‘long SARS’ It is hard to discuss or present data on long COVID without being challenged about the relationship of findings to...