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    News from The Netherlands

    Kamervragen v kamerlid Bikker vd Christenunie over MEcvs
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    News from The Netherlands

    The hypocrisy; patients have bias, so unreliable, while the research of these ‘bps’ researchers is a smorgasbord of bias :D.
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    Very severe French patient needs help

    Would the NICE guideline be helpful as well?
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    UK House of Lords/ House of Commons Questions

    Thank you @Tao Fogger for so diligently reporting all this. The answers usually do not support a like, but your work is very much appreciated!
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    Forum software update - Forum unavailable weekend 7th to 8th June

    Thank you Adrian and everyone else who is making this happen!
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    Paul Garner on Long Covid and ME/CFS - BMJ articles and other media.

    I wish we could have a fact-check team that would confront his untruths.
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    Paul Garner on Long Covid and ME/CFS - BMJ articles and other media.

    These statements have the potential to really cause harm. Especially for the very severe who end up in hospital. Because of his eminence people will take him seriously. Severe patients in hospital could be confronted with healthcare workers who insist on opening curtains or remove blindfolds...
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    The ELAROS NHS digital system for patient/clinician digital sharing questionnaire data, includes Yorkshire Rehab. Scale and Open-OH app

    Yes it annoys me that governments seem to be willing to spend tens or hundreds of millions on AI and apps and other technologal innovations, but there is no money for true healthcare.
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    Are gallbladder problems a common secondary symptom in ME/CFS ?

    What kind of symptom with your gallbladder, do you have? I was told by a dr I had an issue with my gallbladder (because of nausea and vomiting). Don’t know if this was correct. I have heard about ME ptnts who had issues with their gallbladder. Do not know how common that is.
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    UK: Disability benefits (UC, ESA and PIP) - news and updates 2024 and 2025

    I posted this on the APPG thread as well. But this applies to disability benefits too. The Canary has an article on the disability cuts. Apparently two MP’s who sit on the APPG for ME are in favor of the disability cuts. https://www.thecanary.co/long-read/2025/04/01/dwp-cuts-me-cfs/ Have not...
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    UK: All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on ME news, 2020 onward

    The Canary has an article on the disability cuts. Apparently two MP’s who sit on the APPG for ME are in favor of the disability cuts. https://www.thecanary.co/long-read/2025/04/01/dwp-cuts-me-cfs/ Have not read it
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    Evaluation of Function and Biochemical Parameters of Platelet Concentrates (PCs) Prepared From Blood Donors With a History of COVID-19

    Fatemeh Arastehnazar, Mohammad Hessam Rafiee, Mohammad Reza Deyhim, Faezeh Ghasemi, Amir Teimourpour Funding: This work was supported by Blood Transfusion Research Center, High Institute for Research and Education in Transfusion Medicine Iran ABSTRACT Background COVID-19 can affect...
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    News from Germany

    Der Spiegel has a videopodcast about MEcfs, that tells the story of Mila an MEcfs patient. https://www.spiegel.de/thema/shortcut-videopodcast/ I have not listened to it myself.
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    Preprint Charting the Circulating Proteome in ME/CFS: Cross System Profiling and Mechanistic insights, 2025, Hoel, Fluge, Mella+

    If you do not mind me asking, you seem to have a vast knowledge of all these studies. How do you keep track and organize these studies? I struggle to keep track so was interested in how you do it.
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    Preprint Charting the Circulating Proteome in ME/CFS: Cross System Profiling and Mechanistic insights, 2025, Hoel, Fluge, Mella+

    Hi Butter, Interesting that you were tested for that. Was that as part of a study or something available to the public?
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    National patterns of age of ME/CFS onset

    Hi Alinda, I am sorry that you had to undergo this treatment. Is is cruel for any ME patient, but especially for children/adolescents. Thank you for speaking out. I hope the media attention will lead to better treatment of ME patients, especially children and young adults. You speak of very...
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    News from The Netherlands

    A longer article in the Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf about a documentary maker, Jessica Villerius. She has longcovid and is undergoing a treatment that is not scientifically supported yet. Therefore she is not sharing what the treatment is. She is doing better now and has been able to resume...
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    National patterns of age of ME/CFS onset

    I would not know. I am thinking what is happening in this age group in the Netherlands what is different from other countries. For instance different health policies, more infectious disease? I also wonder if this is the bias from the sample. I am not sure if many people are members of...
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    NL: UWV Dutch Employee Insurance Agency ao disability

    Well I added ‘ao disability’ and meant among others disability.
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