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  1. John Mac

    UK: Disability benefits (UC, ESA and PIP) - news and updates 2024 and 2025

    Yes it's all very distressing to read even for someone like me who won't be affected by the changes. I reach that "magic number" in less than a year when I will be given even more money without having to prove I can't work and will be viewed by the rest of society as deserving of that money...
  2. John Mac

    United Kingdom: Dr Suzanne O’Sullivan (BPS neurologist)

    I think she later admitted that the one patient she mentioned didn't actually exist and was just an amalgam of ME/CFS patients she had seen. Which was very dishonest of her.
  3. John Mac

    UK: Disability benefits (UC, ESA and PIP) - news and updates 2024 and 2025

    Benefit changes Green Paper https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/pathways-to-work-reforming-benefits-and-support-to-get-britain-working-green-paper/pathways-to-work-reforming-benefits-and-support-to-get-britain-working-green-paper From BBC website: Jobseekers' Allowance (JSA) and...
  4. John Mac

    UK: Disability benefits (UC, ESA and PIP) - news and updates 2024 and 2025

    This is what did happen to me back in 2009 regarding my mortgage illness insurance with the Halifax. I filled in a request form and for two years sent them my sick/fit notes every few weeks and they paid my monthly mortgage amount. I took out that insurance and when I qualified for it they paid...
  5. John Mac

    Trial Report Blood Flow To The Head Is Reduced in a Patient With Myalgic Encephalomyelitis With Confirmed Post-Exertional Malaise, 2024, Lee

    I presume this is the previous sensor here. https://lumiahealth.com/ eta: which I think is discussed in this thread https://www.s4me.info/threads/monitoring-carotid-blood-flow-using-in-ear-wearable-device-during-tilt-table-testing-2023-hemantkumar-tripathi-md-et-al.32549/
  6. John Mac

    UK: Disability benefits (UC, ESA and PIP) - news and updates 2024 and 2025

    https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/esa-outcomes-of-work-capability-assessments-including-mandatory-reconsiderations-and-appeals-march-2025/esa-work-capability-assessments-mandatory-reconsiderations-and-appeals-march-2025 This is a summary of the latest Accredited Official Statistics on...
  7. John Mac

    UK: Disability benefits (UC, ESA and PIP) - news and updates 2024 and 2025

    https://www.icontact-archive.com/archive?c=144836&f=2941&s=6745&m=1192352&t=9e9c98a7d9387eb5c584b7e81a15d03a3040ca2700682dadb514b7c01a8d57f0 On Monday morning this week, Benefits and Work was contacted by a number of mainstream media outlets who had all been given to believe that the Green...
  8. John Mac

    UK: Disability benefits (UC, ESA and PIP) - news and updates 2024 and 2025

    Yes that is what I had to do this morning, ask them to provide an upload link in my To-do list, which they did. Seems strange to ask somebody to do something without providing any way for them to do it.
  9. John Mac

    UK: Disability benefits (UC, ESA and PIP) - news and updates 2024 and 2025

    I have just received another request from the DWP to send them more bank statements from 1st November to the 28th February 2025 (which will mean they will have 8 consecutive months of my bank statements) and also a new driving licence check code from the DVLA allowing the DWP to access my DVLA...
  10. John Mac

    Cell-autonomous innate immunity by proteasome-derived defence peptides, 2025, Merbl et al

    BBC article covering the study. A new part of the immune system has been discovered and it is a goldmine of potential antibiotics, scientists have said. They've shown a part of the body known to recycle proteins has a secret mode that can spew out an arsenal of bacteria-killing chemicals. The...
  11. John Mac

    Cell-autonomous innate immunity by proteasome-derived defence peptides, 2025, Merbl et al

    Abstract For decades, antigen presentation on major histocompatibility complex class I for T cell-mediated immunity has been considered the primary function of proteasome-derived peptides1,2. However, whether the products of proteasomal degradation play additional parts in mounting immune...
  12. John Mac

    Review The search for a blood-based biomarker for [ME/CFS]: from biochemistry to electrophysiology, 2025, Clarke et al

    Some background information on this line of research https://meassociation.org.uk/2024/08/explaining-electrophysiological-properties-of-cells/
  13. John Mac

    Efficacy of Vitamin D Replacement Therapy on 28 Cases of [ME/CFS] After COVID-19 Vaccination, 2025, Kodama et al

    "Based on this result, vitamin D levels may serve as another possible biomarker for ME/CFS". If ME/CFS was associated with vitamin D levels we would have known about this decades ago.
  14. John Mac

    UK: Disability benefits (UC, ESA and PIP) - news and updates 2024 and 2025

    https://www.icontact-archive.com/archive?c=144836&f=2941&s=6745&m=1192146&t=9e9c98a7d9387eb5c584b7e81a15d03a3040ca2700682dadb514b7c01a8d57f0 Benefits and Work Guide monthy newsletter GREATER PROPORTION OF PIP FACE-TO-FACE ASSESSMENTS PLANNED The proportion of PIP assessments that are...
  15. John Mac

    Trial Report The impact of long COVID on heart rate variability: a cross-sectional study, 2025, Seok-Ju Yoo et al

    Abstract Background Long-term COVID-19 (LC), which may affect the autonomic nervous system (ANS), is the term for the symptoms that some patients had for an additional month after contracting the virus. Therefore, during the LC phase, ANS status was evaluated in patients with mild-to-moderate...
  16. John Mac

    2025: The 2019/24 Cochrane Larun review Exercise Therapy for CFS - including IAG, campaign, petition, comments and articles

    Dr Charles Shepherd signs letter to Cochrane regarding the review ‘Exercise therapy for chronic fatigue syndrome’ https://meassociation.org.uk/2025/02/dr-charles-shepherd-signs-letter-to-cochrane-regarding-the-review-exercise-therapy-for-chronic-fatigue-syndrome/
  17. John Mac

    « Exercise Actually Makes Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Worse» - Video by SciShow

    107,000 views in 22 hours. 1,198 comments.
  18. John Mac

    Impact of Pre-Infection COVID-19 Vaccination on the Incidence and Severity of Long COVID: A Retrospective Case–Control Study, 2025, Barado et al.

    I took it to mean vaccination before getting infected resulting in LC "This study aims to analyse the association between complete vaccination prior to SARS-CoV-2 infection and the subsequent development of long COVID"
  19. John Mac

    Stat News: NIH must address the twin crises of long Covid and ME/CFS — together

    The ME Association has covered the news America: ‘Virus Hunter’ Ian Lipkin calls for Long Covid and ME/CFS to be studied together February 6, 2025 “ME/CFS and long Covid share profound similarities, including post-exertional malaise, cognitive dysfunction, sleep abnormalities, and immune...
  20. John Mac

    Measuring Post-Exertional Malaise with DePaul Symptom Questionnaires: Challenges and Opportunities, 2025, Jason

    https://www.lidsen.com/journals/neurobiology/neurobiology-09-01-267 Abstract Following mental or physical exertion, patients with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) experience Post-Exertional Malaise (PEM). Although self-report questions represent less expensive and...
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