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Paywall, https://www.jocn-journal.com/article/S0967-5868(19)31448-1/fulltext Sci hub, not available via.

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omf sent this out: vvv NEW GUIDELINES FOR DIAGNOSING AND TREATING ME/CFS A resource for clinicians and patients. The U.S. ME/CFS Clinician Coalition, a group of U.S. ME/CFS experts, has authored a handout on the basics of diagnosis and management of ME/CFS. This handout is being made...

The New York Times: Why Doctors Still Offer Treatments That May Not Help by Austin Frakt Even when we learn something doesn’t make us better, it’s hard to get the system to stop doing it. It takes years or even decades to reverse medical convention. Some practitioners cling to weak evidence of...

Hey there, I'm looking for recommendations for consultants that can be seen privately in the UK who are not subscribed to the psycho-social model. Those who don't just offer GET and CBT, and who offer medical responses. By scouring these forums so far I have identified: Dr. William Weir...

Full title Treatment for Gulf War Illness (GWI) with KPAX002 (methylphenidate hydrochloride + GWI nutrient formula) in subjects meeting the Kansas case definition: A prospective, open-label trial (revision 2) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022395619302651 (not...

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/aug/08/watchdog-declines-to-back-nhs-cannabis-treatment-for-epilepsy There seem to be some worrying parallels with Nice’s review of guidelines for ME. If only clinical trials are considered as evidence, where do we stand? Also if the guidelines committee...

I was recently sent a free book from NIHR as a 'thank you' for the past work I had done for them as a patient rep. The book is entitled, 'Testing Treatments - Better Research for Better Healthcare' and is authored by Imogen Evans, Hazel Thornton, Iain Chalmers and Paul Glazziou. I haven't had...

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Wasn't sure where to post this, but i was watching a tv drama & someone was recommended EFT - Emotional Freedom Technique.... which is tapping on the so called 'meridians', to get rid of unwanted emotional distress & also physical pain/ailments especially 'MUS' etc. I seemed to remember some...

Have set this up on a thread on it's own (was previously on https://www.s4me.info/threads/mus-services-in-uk-and-other-mus-related-issues.8318/ ) University of Sheffield. https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/scharr/sections/heds/mus/info...

Not about ME but the general evidence basis for CBT. This aligns with work by Keith Laws, who regularly reports on CBT trials failing left and right and being shown to be no better than, well, nothing. There is growing evidence that ALL the evidence for the efficacy and safety of CBT is...

https://www.brighamandwomens.org/about-bwh/newsroom/press-releases-detail?id=3352 New Therapy Targets Gut Bacteria to Prevent and Reverse Food Allergies Study finds altered gut microbiota in infants with food allergy; oral therapy to replenish bacteria prevented food allergy and suppressed...

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0124648 Abstract Background Patients with myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME, also called chronic fatigue syndrome) may respond most favorably to frequent vitamin B12 injections, in vital combination with oral folic acid. However...

A new study points to a successful antiviral, at least in mice, for the Bourbon virus, a deadly TBD spreading in the US...

I thought I'd put this in 'News' rather than 'Research' as it looks a bit amateurish. (Maybe Julia Newton was in a teaching capacity?) (He repeatedly misspells 'encephalomyelitis'.) Source: International Journal of Therapy and Rehabilitation Vol 26, #5 Date: June 6, 2019 URL...

I just came across this, from 2015: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jul/29/coercing-people-mental-health-problems-work-treatment Which I completely agree with, but was surprised to see Wessely saying it. Isn't it his sort of work that gets used to refuse benefits to ME/CFS...

eta:hmm, maybe he draws a magic circle and says stop?

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