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From the article mentioned above: - The study author says that this shows that ME is not a mental illness, but that there is a default in the patient's energy metabolism in the body? - This is of course just nonsense. It is too easy to conclude that way. ME patients are deconditioned and of...

Yes, I was thinking the same. She's head of department of systematic reviews at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, so I believe this makes her the boss to Lillebeth Larun, main author of the Cochrane review on ME and GET.

The newspaper Dagbladet has written an article about the study. It's paywalled, so here's a summary: First there's a short introduction of the study Then follows some comments from researchers known for they biopsychosocial approach to ME. First out is professor Signe Flottorp. Then Wyller...

Just noticed a conversation on twitter and thought it might be interesting for the forum as well Jon Stewart has just held a passionate speech on the lack of proper health care for 9/11-first responders before a House Committee in Washington. Here's some of the reactions: And then this...

Trial By Error: BJGP Correction Coming, BMJ Still Stonewalls Making corrections when needed is part of the job description of being an editor. Yet as I have come to learn, some editors at major UK journals do not appear to take that part of the job description seriously when it comes to these...

Ah, I see :) Well done!

So today I received the following e-mail from Professor Roger Jones, editor of British Journal of General Practice. I've been bugging him to correct a false statement in a 2017 editorial. I sent him another nudge on Sunday, given that it had been more than a week since he promised to make the...

Who is Broken Battery?

Danish Medical Journal (Ugeskriftet.dk) has published an article about the status of CFS/ME. It's good to see references to Wilshire et al and Twisk et al, but the authors still suggests that a subset of ME-patients might benefit from GET. They also define ME as a functional disorder.. The...

Moderator note: new thread with posts from here https://www.s4me.info/threads/news-from-scandinavia.647/page-34#post-175962 Danish Medical Journal (Ugeskriftet.dk) has published an article about the status of CFS/ME. It's good to see references to Wilshire et al and Twisk et al, but the...

(Stubhaug's study was discussed in this thread)

Trial By Error: Hey BJGP, Where's That Correction about the Cost of MUS? Earlier today (Sunday, June 9th, in San Francisco), I sent the following e-mail to Professor Roger Jones, the editor of the British Journal of General Practice. I first wrote to Professor Jones in early May, seeking a...

I find it hard to understand that the ill-fated consequences for patients with diagnoses being redefined into terms as contested/MUS/BPS/functional disorder isn't obvious to everyone.

The "patient organisation" Recovery Norge (for patients who have improved from ME by their own efforts and which is lead by MD Henrik Vogt) has asked 9 anonymous members whether it's true that ME patients can't tolerate activity. It believe this is meant as a critique to Lien's study. google...

Egil Fors as co author is a red flag. He is a proponent of the bio psychosocial approach to ME, defining it as a functional disorder and recommends CBT/GET as treatments. He's also written at least one article together with the Lightning Process coach Live Landmark (2011).

Henrik Vogt has commented the article. Here's a google translation: The pediatrician Kristian Sommerfelt says that cognitive methods cannot contribute making CFS / ME healthy. This implies a pure denial of both research knowledge that suggests improvement and increased chance of recovery by...