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The Reuters narrative regurgitated without questionning: Scientists Withdraw Study About Chronic Fatigue Amid Patients, Activists Criticism http://en.businesstimes.cn/articles/104121/20181018/scientists-withdraw-study-about-chronic-fatigue-amid-patients-activists-criticism.htm Study backing...

If you want more background, here are two threads about her: https://www.s4me.info/threads/clare-gerada-patients-need-to-be-more-accountable-for-their-health-suggests-gp-mental-health-lead.1489/#post-25042...

Am I really awake?

On the same subject: Trial By Error: The Psychosomatic Conference’s Lame Response Edit: thread here

Remark by the Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust: Answer: I have skimmed through the document and so far haven't seen anything seriously worrying in the developers' responses.

This sounds encouraging: p. 164-165

Nice to see @adambeyoncelowe and @Keela Too are on board!

The psychiatric hypothesis is not even aluded to in their aetiology paragraph... Weirdly, the tab where the reports opens up in my browser reads "schizophrenia guideline".

Each time I read Chalder's prose I feel like vomiting. The lack of empathy, kindness and so on, of Chalder is beyond me. She should never be allowed to be near someone suffering. A screening for sociopathic tendencies should be mandatory before anyone enters the field of psychology. I remember...

Because of course, it's always a problem coming from patients resisting therapy, and never an issue of unadapted or inefficient treatment...

A cost-benefit analysis of the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies programme using its key defining outcomes Journal of Health Psychology - Steen (2018) http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1359105318803751?journalCode=hpqa#articleShareContainer

That's a good sign when opportunists are heading in the right way. I agree it must not be very agreable, but, hey, he put himself in that place and it's definitively more comfortable than ours.

Hopefully, with the mess that is currently happening at Cochrane, this review will be taken more seriously than it would have been before...

New Trial by Error by @dave30th

Sorry to answer that late (I was wiped out when I saw it and then forgot :bag:) I don't know what to think about anything set up by the ASFC. It's always a mix of good and very bad things. I do not expect much...

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12035-018-1354-8 Edit: Text breaks are mine.

You're talking about treatment, the IOM is not, just symptoms management.

This is clearly a distortion of what was said in the IOM report, where it was clearly stated that CBT and GET are no treatment for SEID.

As long as there is no biomarker, I don't see how we could be sure of anything. A case definition is just a temporary mean to try to diagnose and study people suffering from symptoms that may have the same etiology. There's a reason clinical diagnosis are not used after a biomarker is found...