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"March 11 marks 3 years since WHO declared COVID-19 to be a pandemic. While the world is determined to move on from the acute phase, at least 65 million people are estimated to struggle with long COVID, a debilitating post-infection multisystem condition with common symptoms of fatigue...

moved thread Ok, but most of these studies are based on confirmed PCR tests which if I understand correctly require virus particles, not necessarily antibodies. On Twitter someone pointed me to this Danish preprint which found that 16% of patients reported fatigue and 13% concentration...

The Lancet New NICE guideline on chronic fatigue syndrome: more ideology than science? Signe A. Flottorp, Kjetil Brurberg, Per Fink, Hans Knoop, Vegard B B Wyller Article is paywalled other than this text (references removed): The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) in the...

Science and Technology Select Committee inquiry on Reproducibility and research integrity Opened 22 July 2021. Written submissions and videos for two oral evidence sessions are available, with a transcript for the first only at present. Session 1 - 1 December: Professor Neil Ferguson OBE...

"As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, the need to understand and respond to long COVID is increasingly pressing. Symptoms such as persistent fatigue, breathlessness, brain fog, and depression could debilitate many millions of people globally. Yet very little is known about the condition. The term...

"More than 1 billion people, around 15% of the global population, have some form of disability. Disabilities include long-term sensory, mental, intellectual, or physical impairments that can impact people's daily lives, health care, and support needs. The prevalence of disabilities will most...

How the Lancet lost our trust Stuart Ritchie The Spectator (UK) 26/06/2021 A few of us have tried to get Ritchie interested in the PACE trial, but he has previously refused. But since it now seems to support his argument, he does cautiously mention it...

As many others have pointed out, the clusters of symptoms reported by patients post-COVID-19 are not unique or specific to long COVID. Patients with similar assortments of chronic symptoms are commonly encountered in neurology, rheumatology, infectious diseases, and other subspecialty clinics...

https://www.elsevier.com/connect/the-lancet-eic-honored-as-leading-scientific-and-human-rights-voice-at-forefront-of-pandemic cough; PACE trial is still there Dr Horton.

"Medicine is a practice built on trust—from patients and from society in general—and this is especially true for psychiatry, in which trust has been forfeited in the past. Transparency is the foundation stone of trust. In research, this can be manifest at various stages. Clinical trials and...

Pretty ironic seeing one of Lancet’s subjournals publishing an editorial calling out the unregulated nature of psychological interventions. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2215-0366(20)30414-4

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31958-9/fulltext

David Tuller: Trio of Trials Shows Limits of CBT for Medically Unexplained Symptoms https://www.virology.ws/2020/06/17/trial-by-error-trio-of-trials-shows-limits-of-cbt-for-medically-unexplained-symptoms/

This one’s for the Lancet editorial board: A trolley problem for our times (involving a plate of delicious cookies and a steaming pile of poop)...

(more of the Lancet acting as if it's not part of the problem) Thiis probably isnnt worth posting, but for those of you who have followed the PACE trial and enjoy being irritated by the hypocrisy of Horton and co...

But I thought activism was bad??? https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/lancet-editor-chief-calls-activist-journals

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(19)32766-7/fulltext

David Oliver: Sepsis—what’s behind the “hype”? bmj article: https://www.bmj.com/content/367/bmj.l6327 lancet article: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(19)32483-3/fulltext#%20

https://hubs.ly/H0lhw1C0 given that using the media to change perceptions about our illness has been the focus of quite a lot of campaigning, i was wondering whether this Could be used by our community? How to submit: https://hubs.ly/H0lhw1C0

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanrhe/article/PIIS2665-9913(19)30042-6/fulltext Symptom-based stratification of patients with primary Sjögren's syndrome: multi-dimensional characterisation of international observational cohorts and reanalyses of randomised clinical trial