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The Norwegian ME Association donated on May 12th funds for two research projects. One of the research projects is by Fluge, Mella and their team. They want to try and find more objective ways to measure changes in patients enrolled in clinical trials by continuous measurement of physical...

NORD removed its ME page. If you do type in Myalgic Encephalomyelitis, only a list of patient organizations pops up.

The Norwegian Institute of Public Health has today published a literature search about PEM. The Norwegian ME Association asked them to make an overview of research on PEM in ME in 2015. The literature search was done in February 2019 by Lillebeth Larun (from the contested Cochrane review on ME...

" Public Defence: Maria Pedersen – Pediatrics Cand.med. Maria Pedersen at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis Chronic “Chronic Fatigue and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Following acute Epstein-Barr Virus Infection in Adolescents” for the degree of Philosophiae doctor (PhD)...

Skogli Rehabilitation Center has worked with ME patients for several years. It's disturbing to see their program of an upcoming Network conference for health personell working with CFS/ME in March. Lillebeth Larun seems to still be acknowledged as an authority in this field and why on earth...

This is a private initiative from Stryn, Norway. They've organised ME-conferences before with great programme and results. This year there will be conference for everyone who wishes to attend at Tuesday March 26th from 16.30 - 20.30. Nest day, at Wednesday 27th, there is a conference for health...

@Jonathan Edwards, I remember that in the other place several of us had a long discussion about what could explain the two peaks in onset-age for ME/CFS. I just saw the graph that we were discussing reproduced in Slide #25 of Karl Morten's recent talk in NZ...

http://www.virology.ws/2018/12/12/trial-by-error-the-view-from-norway/

David Tuller is giving a talk soon in Drammen, Norway about the PACE-trial. It'll be live-streamed here at 18.00 PM (GMT+1)

2018 Campaign week from the Norwegian ME Association to increase knowledge The Norwegian ME Association is launching a week long campaign to raise awareness and knowledge about ME. It starts off tomorrow and ends Saturday. It's the first time a campaign like this has been done in Norway, and...

The Norwegian ME Association is organising a CFS/ME conference for researchers together with The Norwegian Institute of Public Health and the National Competence Service for CFS/ME. This will take place 26th - 27th Nov. As part of this conference, they invite the public to an open seminar about...

Downloadable pdf file is in Norwegian https://www.fhi.no/en/publ/2018/Immunoglobulin-for-chronic-fatigue-syndrome-CFS-ME/

This is so dreadful I don't even know where to start in order to give a recap. :cry::cry::arghh: Lightning Process (LP) coach Live Landmark has written a letter to the editor defending LP as treatment for ME. Dette sier forskningen om Lightning Process og ME google translation: This is what...

The report has an English summary from pages 9 - 12. ME-pasienters erfaring med rehabiliteringsopphold (ME patients' experiences with rehabilitation stays) Some of the main findings: Slightly more than half were satisfied with the rehabilitation stay About three out of four disagree or...

This was an interesting read about a part of our history we don't much care to acknowledge. The article tells the story about the Norwegian psychiatrist Augusta Rasmussen (1895-1979). She studied children who had been sexually abused, and found that it had minor, if any, effect for most of...

This is a wonderful, beautiful album with short songs accommodated for people with low listening capacity. The songs are made by Anette Gilje, a sufferer of ME for many years. The texts reflect several aspects of living with this disease. Anette is a great advocate for ME in Norway. She was...

Forskning.no is a website about research for a general audience. ME has been debated several times lately, including research, the PACE-trial, psyche vs soma etc. A while ago, a psychologist with ME wrote an excellent debate article about ME at forskning.no. But she used a pseudonym without...

NAFKAM (Norway's National Research Center in Complementary and Alternative Medicine), The Norwegian Directorate of Health and the Consumer Ombudsman state in an update of today about Lightning Process (LP) that it is to be considered as alternative treatment. This is great news, as the laws...

Professor emeritus Ivar Sønbø Kristiansen from the Department of Health Management and Health Economics has written a blogpost in a medical newspaper where he draw parallels between gender dystrophy and ME as fashion illnesses. I post this mostly for its oddity - but feel genuinely sorry for...

Elling Ulvestad is a specialist in immunology and transfusion medicine, head of the Department of Microbiology at Haukeland University Hospital and professor at the Department of Clinical Science at University of Bergen. He has written a text for The Norwegian Medical Association titled...