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  1. ahimsa

    COVID 5 years later: Learning from a pandemic many are forgetting (ScienceInsider)

    COVID 5 years later: Learning from a pandemic many are forgetting Five years after SARS-CoV-2 surfaced, scientists reflect and look ahead to the next threat https://www.science.org/content/article/covid-5-years-later-learning-pandemic-many-are-forgetting (I added some line breaks and bolding...
  2. Sly Saint

    BMJ Letter - Outcome in the chronic fatigue syndrome 1992 S. Wessely

    nb also a letter from Charles Shepherd. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1882994/ eta: I think it was in response to this Follow up of patients presenting with fatigue to an infectious diseases clinic, 1992, Sharpe et al. | Science for ME
  3. RaviHVJ

    Best articles on ME history

    I'm making what may be a doomed attempt over the next 8 months to complete the masters degree I've been on a leave of absence from for 4 years. I have to write a "capstone" (a short dissertation), and I've chosen to write it on Long Covid and ME. I'm going to have a brief overview of the...
  4. Sly Saint

    CMAJ "Virus of the year" 1985, Post-infectious neuro-myesthenia, chronic fatigue syndrome, Dr Salit

    Dr. Salit responds - PMC
  5. Sly Saint

    BMJ: Myalgic encephalomyelitis, 1989 R G Walker

    Myalgic encephalomyelitis - PMC
  6. Sly Saint

    Guardian article on origins of CBT : I have OCD. Some cognitive behavioral therapy techniques were totally wrong for me, April 2024

    "I have OCD. Cognitive behavioral therapy techniques made it worse" I have OCD. Cognitive behavioral therapy techniques made it worse (msn.com)
  7. Sly Saint

    David J Black: Is anyone listening? Does anyone care?

    David J Black: Is anyone listening? Does anyone care? | Scottish Legal News
  8. Sly Saint

    Myalgic encephalomyelitis, 1955-1990 - K. Johnstone

    Substack Making sense of ME/CFS Melvin Ramsay, the Royal Free Hospital outbreak, and the evolving understanding of ME. Myalgic encephalomyelitis, 1955-1990 - by K. Johnstone (substack.com)
  9. J

    Medium April 2024: Within Four Walls: The Psychological Ideology of Post-Acute Infection Syndromes Casts a Long Shadow, Francey

    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...
  10. Trish

    New Oxford Textbook of Psychiatry, 2012 and 2020 editions - Sharpe et al on CFS

    New Oxford Textbook of Psychiatry Second edition published 2012 https://academic.oup.com/book/24770 Chapter 5.2.7 Chronic Fatigue Syndrome by Michael Sharpe and Simon Wessely https://doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199696758.003.0133 Abstract (paragraph breaks added) Chronic fatigue syndrome is...
  11. Sly Saint

    The Differential Diagnosis of Weakness and Fatigue, 1944 Frank Allan

    https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM194409212311203 September 21, 1944 N Engl J Med 1944; 231:414-418 DOI: 10.1056/NEJM194409212311203 subscription needed for access to full article.
  12. D

    Book: Treatment of Neurasthenia, 1914, Hartenberg

    https://archive.org/details/39002010195692.med.yale.edu/page/2/mode/2up I've not had the chance to read this, it's an early 20th century book about neurasthenia, that I'm told describes PEM without calling it that, and gives good advice. (Not sure where else to post this)
  13. Sly Saint

    Tapanui Flu

    Threadreader thread by tapanui flu on Tapanui flu https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1686340525346193408.html
  14. SNT Gatchaman

    The “torpillage” neurologists of World War I: Electric therapy to send hysterics back to the front, 2010, Tatu et al.

    The “torpillage” neurologists of World War I: Electric therapy to send hysterics back to the front Laurent Tatu; Julien Bogousslavsky; Thierry Moulin; Jean-Luc Chopard The French neurologists and psychiatrists who were mobilized during the Great War were confronted with numerous soldiers with...
  15. B

    Resources about the history of M.E./CFS

    Are there any books or blog series particularly worth reading/videos or podcasts worth watching or listening to about the history of M.E./CFS? I've already read Osler's Web and Science, Politics and M.E. and am waiting on The Why: The Historic ME/CFS Call To Arms to arrive. I'm making my way...
  16. Adam pwme

    Old Maudsley GP training video

    Does anyone know when the old GP training video from Kings with Chalder/Gerada was published? Or any ideas how I could find out. The earliest I could find was this from 2002 https://web.archive.org/web/20021124114432/http://www.iop.kcl.ac.uk/Main/Publications/videos.html @Dolphin Thanks
  17. Samuel

    The Rise and Fall of the Psychosomatic Approach to MUS, Myalgic Encephalomyelitis and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, 2022, David Marks

    The Rise and Fall of the Psychosomatic Approach to Medically Unexplained Symptoms, Myalgic Encephalomyelitis and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Free fulltext (preprint) https://psyarxiv.com/jpzaw/ Citation: David F Marks. (2022). The Rise and Fall of the Psychosomatic Approach to Medically...
  18. Sly Saint

    The Poisoned Well: a history of ME in 20 tweets, July 2022 - Valerie Eliot Smith

    https://valerieeliotsmith.com/2022/07/05/the-poisoned-well-a-history-of-me-in-20-tweets/
  19. Hutan

    Interventions for the Treatment and Management of CFS: A Systematic Review, 2001, Whiting et al

    (an old paper, mentioned on another thread here) Interventions for the Treatment and Management of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: A Systematic Review https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/194209 Penny Whiting, MSc; 1 Anne-Marie Bagnall, PhD; 1 Amanda J. Sowden, PhD; 1 John E...
  20. D

    Open Medicine Foundation (OMF)

    Open Medicine Foundation Canada: https://www.omfcanada.ngo/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=news I donate to the OMF - can now receive a Canadian tax receipt ETA: It would be great to see some OMF funds going to Canadian ME researchers - there are collaborations, but I don't know if funds are...
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