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  1. Sly Saint

    Michael Sharpe: Mind, Medicine and Morals: A Tale of Two Illnesses (2019) BMJ blog - and published responses

    Michael Sharpe trying to provoke responses to add to his 'abusive' file(?) (he retweeted [@cfs_research] link to the article over a week ago but there were only two replies) maybe leave it that way. Not really worth replying to.
  2. Sly Saint

    Blaming the victim, all over again: Waddell and Aylward’s biopsychosocial (BPS) model of disability, 2016, Shakespeare et al

    pdf of full paper https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/58235/1/1351_Shakespeare.pdf was telling a young man I know with RA (who was quoting Nietzsche at me yesterday) about the bps model (or the version being used by DWP etc) ........he had never heard of it but has been on the receiving end of the...
  3. Sly Saint

    Cochrane Review: 'Exercise therapy for chronic fatigue syndrome' 2017, Larun et al. - Recent developments, 2018-19

    https://www.cochrane.org/news/appointment-new-editor-chief-cochrane-library
  4. Sly Saint

    Trial By Error: Re-visiting My Questions for PACE Professors

    didn't know which of the PACE threads to post this on. just thought it was a neat concise point out of key probs with PACE
  5. Sly Saint

    Who is Simon Wessely?

    Ethics fly out of the window at Oxford University when big donors come calling article in guardian https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jun/22/ethics-fly-out-window-oxford-university-when-big-donors-come-calling
  6. Sly Saint

    Monitoring treatment harm in [ME/CFS]: A freedom-of-information study of National Health Service specialist, 2019, McPhee et al

    Until the clinics accept that CBT/GET can cause harm they will continue to attribute any deterioration/drop out to 'something else' eta: cross posted with ukxmrv
  7. Sly Saint

    Researchers propose deep trawl of DNA to help uncover the causes of ME/CFS (Simon McG blog)

    I would worry that they ended up recruiting from fatigue clinics. Personally, I would prefer research to concentrate on some kind of fairly reliable biomarker first to ensure participants in this kind of genetics study were patients with ME. Could they not just do the analysis on the all the...
  8. Sly Saint

    ME Association and Carol Monaghan meeting with DWP Minister about benefits

    something I didn't know, but also something the assessors appear to ignore.
  9. Sly Saint

    K Pressin: new treatment for ME CFS(?) - video Dr Derek Enlander (25 June 2019)

    Dr Enlander is considered an 'ME expert' in the US (he was Jen Breas doctor and is in Unrest). He has previously said on a number of occasions that he and his team (when he was at Mt Sinai, he now has a private clinic) 'proved' that exercise was bad for pwME but they never published anything on...
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    K Pressin: new treatment for ME CFS(?) - video Dr Derek Enlander (25 June 2019)

    Not a recommendation youtube generated text this seems a bit irresponsible or am i missing something? (ie promoting a product before it has been officially tested) eta: see my later post for more info...
  11. Sly Saint

    UK Westminster Hall debate on Electromagnetic Fields: Health Effects (25 June 2019)

    full debate here https://www.theyworkforyou.com/whall/?id=2019-06-25a.294.0&s=Chronic+Fatigue+Syndrome#g294.1
  12. Sly Saint

    News from Aotearoa/New Zealand and the Pacific Islands

    Fiona Godlee will be in NZ later this year " Getting Better with Evidence 10 December 2019, New Zealand Details 8:00 am, December 10, 2019 — 5:30 pm, December 10, 2019 Venue University of Auckland (Grafton Campus)"...
  13. Sly Saint

    Forward-ME Group Minutes - 8th May 2019

    video here https://www.ouh.nhs.uk/chronic-fatigue/treatment/whats-involved.aspx some patients repeatedly call it chronic fatigue. One did use ME. eta: 'patient' at the end says "you've got nothing to lose. Don't be afraid of the word exercise" "I would say to anyone considering it, absolutely...
  14. Sly Saint

    Channel 4 Dispatches programme on Breast Implant Illness (24/06/2019)

    I watched this last night. In addition to BII there is also a 'new cancer' Breast Implant Associated Cancer. There are several news stories on the web about this today. eg UK regulator ready to re-examine safety of breast implants...
  15. Sly Saint

    The ME Patient Foundation

    Registered Charity 1181205 I came across this charity that doesn't seem to have had a lot of activity for a while. advisors Dr Amy Proal @Amy Proal and Caroline Struthers @Caroline Struthers trustees: Emma Joy, Dr Claudia Gilberg, Geoff Jones, Adam Joy...
  16. Sly Saint

    US - The Sleepy Girl Guide to Social Security Disability

    For people in US A lot of information https://howtogeton.wordpress.com/social-security-disability/
  17. Sly Saint

    USA: National Institutes of Health (NIH) intramural ME/CFS study

    Myalgic Encephalomyelitis Chronic Fatigue at the National Institutes of Health https://www.centerwatch.com/clinical-trials/listings/183621/chronic-fatigue-syndrome-myalgic-encephalomyelitis-chronic-fatigue/?&radius=50
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