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  1. Esther12

    FINE trial patient booklet 29/04/05 Pauline Powell

    https://web.archive.org/web/20140811161130/http://www.fine-trial.net/downloads/Patient PR Manual ver9 Apr05.pdf I saw that this was off-line, but found an archived version so thought I'd post it here for anyone googling for it. It's a pretty annoying document, and those new to looking at CFS...
  2. Andy

    A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled pilot study of a probiotic in emotional symptoms of CFS, 2009, Logan et al

    An old study but, as shown in this thread, https://s4me.info/threads/top-10-sc...f-citations-tweet-by-dr-mark-gutheridge.7461/, one of the most cited ME/CFS papers in the past 10 years, so thought it might be useful to have here. Open access at...
  3. Sly Saint

    Surviving Ebola: A historical cohort study of Ebola mortality and survival in Sierra Leone 2014-2015 - Wing et al Dec 2018

    Looks into post-viral symptoms; mentions CFS https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0209655
  4. Sly Saint

    2014 Impact case study - Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) - CFS

    Didn't know where to post this or if it has been posted before; https://www.qmul.ac.uk/wolfson/media/wolfson/ref-2014-results/UoA2-chronic_fatigue_syndrome.pdf We have so much to thank QMUL for
  5. MeSci

    Review: CFS book by Nick Duerden

    Source: The British Journal of General Practice Vol 68, #677, p 586 Date: December 2018 URL: https://bjgp.org/content/68/677/586.1 Ref: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/get-well-soon-9781472950482/ https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/get-well-soon-9781472950475/ Books: Get Well Soon: Adventures in...
  6. Sly Saint

    Healthy Women article - How to Tell if You Have Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

    This wasn't too bad until they started trying to explain the symptoms: " If you have CFS, you may have: Sore throat Fatigue Memory or concentration loss (which may come from a lack of true rest) Headaches Unrefreshing or lack of productive sleep (you get plenty of sleep but you're still...
  7. Sly Saint

    Daily Mail article : Are you tired all the time? You could be ill

    " A quarter of the population claim to suffer from fatigue. But sometimes extreme tiredness can be hiding a more serious illness. It is easy to blame exhaustion on the stresses of an increasingly demanding lifestyle or work. But if after six months those feelings of exhaustion haven't gone...
  8. MeSci

    Chapter in The American Psychiatric Association Publishing Textbook of Psychosomatic Medicine and Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry, Third Edition

    I don't know any more about this - just copied from an incoming post: Title: The American Psychiatric Association Publishing Textbook of Psychosomatic Medicine and Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry, Third Edition Chapter: 25. Chronic Fatigue and Fibromyalgia Syndromes Authors: Michael C. Sharpe...
  9. Melanie

    'Chronic fatigue': The devastating illness that's so much worse than just tiredness - Honey Coach nine.com.au (July, 2018)

    https://coach.nine.com.au/2018/07/03/18/52/chronic-fatigue-syndrome-myalgic-encephalomyelitis The article is very good. Dr. Mark Guthridge is inerviewed about ME/CFS and the patient experience is well written. An accurate easy read.
  10. T

    (Not a recommendation) (UK) "Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Conference: Costs, challenges and practice"

    I know from an email that this is on July 17. http://www.salford.ac.uk/onecpd/conferences/chronic-fatigue-syndrome-conference
  11. Webdog

    Reader's Digest - "Myth: Increased exercise will help chronic fatigue syndrome"

    Good to see mainstream media no longer pushing graded exercise, and even pointing out harms. Nice jab at the CDC's decades of negligence. Now if they would just stop calling it "chronic fatigue syndrome". :emoji_bicyclist::emoji_cartwheel::emoji_lifter::emoji_skier::dead: 50 Fitness Myths That...
  12. Melanie

    Mobile Health Unit to provide screenings (Including CFS)

    The LaPorte County Herald-Argus reports: Mobile Health Unit to provide screenings "The Mobile Health Unit of La Porte Hospital will be out in the community throughout May to provide bone density screenings and to educate on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Alzheimer’s Disease. Chronic fatigue...
  13. Melanie

    To Your Good Health: 'Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Has a New Name, Possibly a New Test' - Dr. Roach in Valley News (April 21,2018)

    "I must caution against the over-aggressive use of exercise programs, which can worsen symptoms." "It’s very frustrating, since it implies that a person’s physical symptoms are due to some weakness in his or her character." To Your Good Health: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Has a New Name...
  14. Indigophoton

    (Not a recommendation) CFS or where is my stocking?

    This is an opinion piece opposed to the recent Dutch Health Council changes. Apparently the physiology of ME/CFS has a lot in common with leprechauns. Google translated article here, original (in Dutch), https://www.medischcontact.nl/opinie/blogs-columns/column/cvs-of-waar-is-mijn-kous.htm
  15. Webdog

    "Former Irish squash champ Rooney still haunted by being forced to quit" (due to CFS)

    http://connachttribune.ie/former-irish-squash-champ-rooney-still-haunted-by-being-forced-to-quit/
  16. Sly Saint

    CBC Canada - Fibromyalgia/CFS patients fighting for awareness of career-ending illness

    "Fibromyalgia/CFS patients fighting for awareness of career-ending illness For years medical profession has questioned if fibromyalgia or chronic fatigue syndrome are real Peter Dawe says fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome — diseases that can cause debilitating exhaustion, joint and...
  17. Andy

    Vincent Deary, "CFS and the facts of life - an article for clinicians"

    "The problem may well be that some of our [CBT] treatments are too evidence based." :rofl: Of course, that's obviously it. In part, this article seems to be some sob story about how CBT practitioners are misunderstood and maligned by ungrateful patients. "It would seem that for some sufferers...
  18. Andy

    CFS part of the Finnish Lääkäripäivät 2018 conference

    Highlighted by IiME Google Translate version of the CFS page - http://bit.ly/2D7KJcP
  19. Melanie

    'Unrest' Film on PBS Soon

    Unrest Film by Jen Brea will be broadcast Monday, January 8th on PBS’s ‘Independent Lens’ at 10 PM EST/9 PM CNT. This film is about Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (Chronic Fatigue Syndrome). Don't forget to let friends and family know Wednesday or Thursday prior to the Monday broadcast. I am going...
  20. Esther12

    A general thread on the PACE trial!

    You may have heard of it? At the other place, some of us wrote a word or two about it. I thought it might be good to have a thread for PACE chats, or for new people to ask questions, that didn't necessarily relate to important new papers, or anything that warranted a new thread. I could post...
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