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A member of the Swedish Riksdag ("the Parliament") has asked the Minister for Health and Social Affairs a formal question about ME/CFS. The question will be answered in writing. Vård för personer med ME/CFS...

Copied post from News from Scandinavia There will be an open hearing on ME/CFS and infection triggered fatigue syndrome in the Swedish Riksdag on 27 May, hosted by the Social Affairs Committee. It will be available to watch online. The Riksdag is the highest decision-making assembly in Sweden...

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (Kungliga Vetenskapsakademin) published a report on long covid today. The portrayal of ME in the report is very problematic, and I feel it needs to be challenged. Postakut Covid-19-syndrom – långtidskomplikationer av Covid-19...

Kjell Asplund, MD and professor emeritus at Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine has published the book Fuskarna - (My translation of title: The cheaters. On Macchiarini and other's betrayal of science) It's about several research misconducts, both in Sweden and internationally. He...

Gunnar Olsson Fatigue, exhaustion, ME and ACT About psychology, energy and mitochondria - a new holistic view This webinar (in Swedish) took place on 14 April 2021, and the recording has now been published. It's part of a series of free so called educational seminars presented by Bragée...

Graeme Jones and Annie Pettersson at Nordic Clinic Stockholm has interviewed Jonas about ME/CFS and his unique research. You can view or listen to the full interview below. https://nordicclinic.se/interview-with-me-researcher-jonas-bergquist/ also on youtube eta: in english

A comprehensive clinical and laboratory evaluation of 224 patients with persistent symptoms attributed to presumed tick-bite exposure Abstract Background: Persistent symptoms attributed to presumed tick-bite exposure constitute an unresolved medical controversy. We evaluated whether Swedish...

Abstract Major clinical centers in Sweden have witnessed an inflow of patients with chronic symptoms following initial outpatient care for coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) infection, suggestive of postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome. This report presents the first case series of 3...

Bragée Clinic in Sweden is planning a study looking at 'Craniocervical dysfunction, neuroinflammation and infection in ME/CFS ws healthy controls' Jonas Bergquist from OMF's research center in Uppsala, among others. ETA: The study will include 80 patients from the Bragée clinic with an...

MD Jonas Axelsson, RED Clinic in Stockholm, Sweden in collaboration with researchers at Karolinska Institutet and Lund University in Sweden, and Stony Brook University in the US. The purpose of the REDBANK Study is to collect information on any long-term symptom grouping that appears following...

I have just received a copy of Jörgen Malmquist's book on ME/CFS, "Trött hela livet. Sjukdomen ME". In English: "Tired all life. The illness ME". I have just glanced through the text, but I directly noticed that it is full of straw men. He attributes weird statements to opponents, doesn't...

Professor Anders Rosén and Eirini Apostolou, PhD, at Linköping University are planning a study consisting of 3 subprojects, looking at cytokines, EBV enzyme, antibodies and reactivated retro virus etc in blood and saliva samples from 200 mild, moderate and severe ME patients and 200 controls...

Moderator note posts below have been moved from: https://www.s4me.info/threads/news-from-scandinavia.647/ "Help Holger now!" 13 minutes long video in Swedish about Holger who is very severely ill with ME. Made by his younger brother. (I haven't been able to watch the whole video yet, but...

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Note from moderators: First posts merged from thread here. https://www.s4me.info/threads/news-from-scandinavia.647/page-51#post-237731 Good opinion piece about ME in the Journal of the Swedish Medical Association. It's written by Sten Helmfrid and Sture Eriksson from the Swedish ME Association...

From: Dr. Marc-Alexander Fluks

The Journal of the Swedish Medical Association is arranging this seminar for the third year in a row. They've had 1 100 participants till now and I believe it's been one of their most popular seminars ever. This time the seminar will take place in Sundsvall April 1st. There will be two...

The role of low-grade inflammation for the progress of disease in patients with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome ME/CFS Anna Andreasson, Martin Jonsjö, Linda Holmström. Original title in Swedish (as stated in the ethical approval application): Betydelsen av låggradig...

The journal of the Swedish medical association will be hosting two seminars about chronic fatigue and ME Uttmattningssyndrom och ME/CFS - Umeå 12. sept Uttmattningssyndrom och ME/CFS - Malmö 2. okt Description of the seminar: Over 700 visitors in Stockholm and Göteborg After the well...

The Mind-Body Syndrome Study by Daniel Maroti and Robert Johansson at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden is currently recruiting. (This is not a recommendation!) It's an online treatment focused on emotions. It's called "MBS-studien" in Swedish. http://mbsstudien.se/ More info about Maroti's...