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    What It’s Like to Live With a Tick-Borne Disease, NYT

    Chronic pain, fatigue, rashes: As tick territories are expanding, so too are the number of illnesses they cause...
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    News from Germany

    German government decimates research funding for Long Covid https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/07/21/twuv-j21.html
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    Medicine is plagued by untrustworthy clinical trials. How many studies are faked or flawed?

    https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02299-w Investigations suggest that, in some fields, at least one-quarter of clinical trials might be problematic or even entirely made up, warn some researchers. They urge stronger scrutiny.
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    A New Approach to M.S. Could Transform Treatment of Other Diseases

    https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/07/24/multiple-sclerosis-new-treatment Multiple sclerosis was once seen as a “dead-end disease.” But lots of little interventions have added up to remarkable progress. Should that change how we take on other conditions? One good thing was this. “Louth...
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    They Lost Their Legs. Doctors and Health Care Giants Profited.

    Really good investigative report on likely a largely bogus procedure—USA focused. Not MECFS. “Medical device makers have bankrolled a cottage industry of doctors and clinics that perform artery-clearing procedures that can lead to amputations.”...
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    Bioimpedance spectroscopy characterization of osmotic stress processes in MECFS blood samples, 2023 Fernandez et al

    Now published - details at this post Preprint detail below *** https://www.authorea.com/users/638259/articles/654119-bioimpedance-spectroscopy-characterization-of-osmotic-stress-processes-in-myalgic-encephalomyelitis-chronic-fatigue-syndrome-me-cfs-blood-samples Bioimpedance spectroscopy...
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    Trial Report REFUEL-MS - CBT/GET Digital Intervention MS-Fatigue

    Can someone from here contact a UK MECFS organization to see if they will write a formal letter to a UK MS organization with an expression of concern (indicating that this type of BS besets the MECFS research arena and will be a total waste of money)? If they can write a formal letter and this...
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    Well-known, famous people with ME/CFS (public thread)

    Morgan Fairchild has MECFS and partner had LC apparently. https://me-pedia.org/wiki/Morgan_Fairchild
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    The immunology of long COVID, 2023, Altmann et al

    But Eric Topol gave it a five star rating. As did this person (yes I know this person is controversial….)
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    Long Covid Clinical Trials—a list

    From this paper Altmann et al. 2023 The immunology of long COVID https://www.nature.com/articles/s41577-023-00904-7 https://www.s4me.info/threads/the-immunology-of-long-covid-2023-altmann-et-al.34116/
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    News from Germany

    Not sure this is the right place to post this—it’s a poll about fycompa looks like it helped one person but not another. improvement immense. For more than 5 years I had severe migraines up to 20 days/month, then since Covid extreme "brain symptoms" - since then 2x light migraines in 5...
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    The Observer/Guardian article: Does the microbiome hold the key to chronic fatigue? About patient led 'research' group Remission Biome.

    I don’t disagree with this but I still feel it’s worth looking into—one remission>none.
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    The Observer/Guardian article: Does the microbiome hold the key to chronic fatigue? About patient led 'research' group Remission Biome.

    Their remission likely had nothing to do with their “micro-biome” and everything to do with the antibiotic, especially minocycline and maybe doxycycline to a lesser extent (their protocols say they administer mino or doxycycline). Minocycline is a well known neuroprotectant and there are many...
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    Medical Mysteries: A surgeon’s ominous pain and a question of grilled meat

    Interesting—not MECFS but some gaslighting stuff happened to an oncologist/surgeon. https://wapo.st/3NGOtn3
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    Well-known, famous people with Covid-19 and Long Covid

    https://www.indonewyork.com/science/luca-beckenbauer-franz-beckenbauer-s-grandson-gives-up-his-dream-h90692.html Luca Beckenbauer: Franz Beckenbauer's grandson gives up his dream of a professional career because of Long Covid
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