2020

The Journal of the Swedish Medical Association is arranging this seminar for the third year in a row. They've had 1 100 participants till now and I believe it's been one of their most popular seminars ever. This time the seminar will take place in Sundsvall April 1st. There will be two...

http://www.virology.ws/2020/01/24/trial-by-error-cbt-and-irritable-bowel-syndrome/

Copied from this thread I haven't looked at the update myself yet https://www.actionforme.org.uk/resources/our-publications/booklets/ https://www.actionforme.org.uk/uploads/pdfs/pacing-for-people-with-ME-Jan-2020.pdf

The team of Leonard Jason have performed a prevalence study in Chicago on children and adolescents with ME/CFS. Because this was a community-based study with clinician confirmed diagnosis, this is probably one of the best studies on the prevalence of pediatric ME/CFS thus far...

Health-related quality of life in patients with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome: an Australian cross-sectional study https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11136-019-02411-6

https://www.babcp.com/Conferences/Spring.aspx 16th April Workshop Two Persistent (Medically Unexplained) Physical Symptoms: A Scientist Practitioner Approach Trudie Chalder, King’s College London and David McCormack, Queen’s University Belfast...

Article. PDF Received: 20 December 2019; Accepted: 12 January 2020; Published: 14 January 2020...

In animal models. Open access, https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-13442-5 Article. https://neurosciencenews.com/exercise-replacement-15458/

https://newseu.cgtn.com/news/2020-01-05/-You-can-t-experience-happiness-if-you-don-t-feel-sadness-too--MXlMqxEgZG/index.html

https://www.bmj.com/content/368/bmj.m105?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_term=hootsuite&utm_content=sme&utm_campaign=usage (paywalled, no sci-hub link as yet) see also: Retraction of WHO guidance on opioid use https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6933427/

full article here https://www.lancs.live/news/lancashire-news/former-weightlifter-pendle-tells-how-17538569

Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth in Irritable Bowel Syndrome A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Case-Control Studies https://journals.lww.com/ajg/Abstract/publishahead/Small_Intestinal_Bacterial_Overgrowth_in_Irritable.99456.aspx

Just posted by ME Association Asking people to contact their MPs to ask them to join. https://www.meassociation.org.uk/2020/01/the-all-party-parliamentary-group-on-me-to-re-convene-please-invite-your-mp-to-attend-09-january-2020/

Another dubious mouse model, this time from Korea. Open access, https://www.mdpi.com/2218-273X/10/1/71

Specter of possible new virus emerging from central China raises alarms across Asia By Gerry Shih and Lena H. Sun - Washington Post (Jan 8, 2020)

From https://beta.bma.org.uk/news-and-opinion/bma-presidential-essay-prize

Link: https://osf.io/preprints/metaarxiv/9sz2y/ DOI: 10.31222/osf.io/9sz2y

https://casereports.bmj.com/content/13/1/e232502

Development of a conceptual framework to underpin a health-related quality of life outcome measure in paediatric chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalopathy (CFS/ME): prioritisation through card ranking Roxanne M. Parslow, Nina Anderson, Danielle Byrne, Kirstie L. Haywood, Alison Shaw...

Systematic review of randomized controlled trials for chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis (CFS/ME) full paper https://translational-medicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12967-019-02196-9