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Around the mid 1850s, Ignác Fülöp Semmelweis and Florence Nightingale led the way in advocating handwashing to prevent infections, yet it took over a century for their practices to gain widespread acceptance. Meanwhile, John Snow challenged prevailing beliefs about cholera transmission...

Blog post from Galen Warden about how family and friends can support ME patients. Includes links to research and medical descriptions of ME. https://www.galenwarden.com/post/for-family-and-friends

Lots of stuff here https://www.healthrising.org/blog/2023/01/13/long-covid-clinical-trials-big-drugs-big-studies-and-much-more/

Nov 2022 New York Magazine Article Biased and Riddled with Errors Today I sent the following email to the Editor of New York Magazine: As a reader of New York Magazine, I have come to expect your articles to be accurate, well-researched, and fair. Unfortunately your recent piece, “Has Long...

Horrendous site; Exploring your mind blog: Spain based. https://exploringyourmind.com/who-we-are/ https://exploringyourmind.com/neurasthenia-unexplained-tiredness/ there is also a section on chronic fatigue syndrome...

Hello Guys, I wrote a blogpost on enteroviruses in myalgic encephalomyelitis focusing on John Chia's research and with a section on historical research (which was mostly conducted in the UK in the 80s and 90s). In the post I tried to provide a substantial look at this topic since it is, in...

https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/happiness-is-state-mind/202112/differentiating-fibromyalgia-depression-and-cfs I didn't read any further because if they still haven't got to grips with the diagnostic criteria.......

https://blog.petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/2021/07/29/long-covid-chronic-illness/

As Nina E. Steinkopf provides many of her excellent blog posts in English, I thought it could be useful to from now on have a separate thread for them, instead of them mostly being shared in the thread for news from Scandinavia. This blog post of today is related to the planned Lightning...

"As I have recently written, four major clinical trials of CBT for so-called MUS have documented the opposite of what the investigators hoped to prove. In fact, the evidence from this research suggests that CBT is not an effective treatment for these conditions. That hasn’t stopped these...

"In a follow up to her 2019 blog post, Dr Nina Muirhead discusses a recent surge in clinical interest in myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). In 2019, I wrote to the RCP to share my experience of developing a neurological disease with multisystem symptoms following a...

"In this series, I dig a little deeper into the meaning of psychology-related terms… but not this week. Instead, we’ll take a look at ME/CFS, and why it’s absolutely not all in someone’s head." https://mentalhealthathome.org/2021/07/09/what-is-me-cfs/

https://meassociation.org.uk/2021/06/guest-blog-the-shame/

Structural dimensions of the biopsychosocial model. Series of blogs by Healthcare Hubris A new series of 4 blogs by Healthcare Hubris. Structural dimensions of the biopsychosocial model: 1) Beginnings...

"David J Black explores the dangers of orthodoxy in the first in a four-part medico-legal series. “Orthodoxy” wrote Bertrand Russell “is the death of intelligence”. Before placing this in a medico-legal context with specific reference to the 2009 case Fraser and another v The National Institute...

For faster progress in ME/CFS research, funders and researchers need to treat patients as partners, not subjects Publicly funded research aims to benefit patients and the best way to make sure it does is for researchers and funders to partner with patients. This will ensure research...

"Unmanaged post-viral disease risks and rising pandemic exposure - Compliance, operational and expertise risks in practice management, social care, occupational health intermediation, insurance underwriting, claims management and reinsurance (draft)"...

[Parts one and two are more personal tales of the author's experiences, part three, linked below, delves into the history of ME and CFS and relates history to what is happening today.] "It has been almost eight years since I caught a virus and never recovered, and I completely empathise with...

"Today’s guest post is written by Dr Richard Pione, a clinical psychologist, CBT therapist and former Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner. Richard has worked within several different clinical health psychology settings, with the most recent being a short-term post within a Long COVID MDT...