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Associations between gabapentinoids and suicidal behaviour, unintentional overdoses, injuries, road traffic incidents, and violent crime: population based cohort study in Sweden Yasmina Molero, postdoctoral researcher,1,2,3 Henrik Larsson, professor,2,4 Brian M D’Onofrio, professor,2,5 David J...

Stora Sköndal ME/CFS Center in Stockholm, in collaboration with ImmuneBiotech Medical Sweden (Shahram Lavasani, among others) will be starting a new research project this autumn. Primary investigators are Dr Per Julin and Dr Anders Rehnström. The aim of the study is to investigate the effect...

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Swedish Agency for Health Technology Assessment and Assessment of Social Services (SBU) published today a report on ME. They are an independent national authority, tasked by the government and evaluates methods used by medical and social services. SBU: Myalgisk encefalomyelit och kroniskt...

--- Sent: Friday 9 November 2018 14:35 To: cureme@me-cfs.se Subject: Swedish reporter is preliminary interested in PACE trial Dear Sirs, In Sweden we had extensive reporting of the the surgeon Paolo Macchiarini and his fraudulent research, which led to his and others fall. SVT made several...

Several threads have been merged ME-conferences in Sweden Oct 17th and 18th 2018 RME, the Swedish patient organisation, invites once again to two conferences about ME this autumn. Some of the programme is in English, and some in Swedish. (I have translated the Swedish parts for this post)...

New brilliant article by Sten Helmfrid! It's an excellent and well-written reply to an opinion piece by BPS proponent Mats Reimer. The full-text is in Swedish. Well worth a read :thumbup: "Abstract In an article on SVT Opinion [website of the National Swedish Television], Mats Reimer expresses...

" Summary The goal of this research project is to evaluate if our well-researched behavior medicine treatment model for chronic pain, based on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, is safe and effective in increasing quality of life and functioning also in Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue...

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http://openaccess.blogg.kb.se/2018/05/16/sweden-stands-up-for-open-access-cancels-agreement-with-elsevier/ 2018-05-16 AV ANNICA WENTZEL Sweden stands up for open access – cancels agreement with Elsevier Large science publisher Elsevier does not meet the requirements of Swedish universities...

Paywalled at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/sjop.12451

Regeringen: Mer kunskap behövs för bättre stöd till personer med kroniskt trötthetssyndrom http://www.regeringen.se/pressmeddelanden/2018/05/mer-kunskap-behovs-for-battre-stod-till-personer-med-kroniskt-trotthetssyndrom/

Bragée ME/CFS-Center in Stockholm, Sweden, is (probably) closing. They gave official notice of termination of their agreement with Stockholm County Council in the beginning of March, which means that they will be closing in September unless Stockholm County Council changes their mind and agrees...

Health journalist Josefin Lennen Merckx provides information about ME through four questions. Dette behøver du veta om ME google translation: This is what you need to know about ME 1. What is ME? 2. Why is it an unknown disease? 3. Why has it been controversial among health personell? 4. What...

Läkartidningen (Doctor's newspaper) provides news on behalf of the Swedish Medical Association. In May they invite to a seminar about the differences between chronic fatigue and ME. Important topic perhaps particularly in Sweden where chronic fatigue/idiopathic or stress related fatigue goes...

Infection Elicited Autoimmunity and Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: An Explanatory Model Jonas Blomberg 1, Carl-Gerhard Gottfries 2, Amal Elfaitouri 3, Muhammad Rizwan 1 and Anders Rosén 4 Department of Medical Sciences, Uppsala University, Clinical Microbiology, Academic...

Yesterday there were two articles about ME in the Swedish tabloid paper Aftonbladet. I wasn't able to google translate these articles for some reason.. Others are very welcome to have a go! Aftonbladet "Det enda jag tänkt på i tre år är den här jävla sjukdomen" The only thing I've thought about...

Another great and informative section about ME from Swedish media. This time an interview with the famous crime fiction author Karin Alvtegen who is ill with ME. She talks about how the disease has turned her life up side down and describes her meetings with doctors as a Kafka-process. She says...

Today there was a news section about ME on Swedish television. The Netflix-launch of Unrest was given much attention with scenes from the trailer. In studio were prof. Jonas Bergquist (ME-researcher and member of OMFs Scientific Advisory board) and Henrik, a carer over several years for his...

The Swedish patient organisation Riksföreningen för ME-patienter (RME) organised two international ME-conferences this autumn. The lectures were filmed and today RME uploaded them. @Sly Saint has already shared one of the lectures; "ME/CFS and the immune system. Where are we now?" by Geraldine...