Just noting that in an email bulletin today ("The Year Ahead"), ME Action made the following statement about the Cochrane problems: Link: ME...
Corresponding author has a Substack and a Xitter account with quite a bit of ME/CFS discussion (haven't read through but, looking at the titles,...
Fatigue vs non-fatigue subgroup comparison: [ATTACH] FGF21 - primarily secreted by the liver, is a significant regulator of glucose & lipid...
... Reference [39] is to this paper which reported that plasma levels of FGF21 and NT-proBNP were significantly elevated in ME/CFS patients...
Background Recent proteomic studies have documented that Long COVID in adults is characterized by a pro-inflammatory signature with...
It was invented by an American psychiatrist in the 1970s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_L._Engel The original paper was "The Need for a...
Most professionals have been taught that the "biopsychosocial" model / view is a very good thing; a move away from biological reductionism towards...
Wyller et al have published a critique of the generalisability of this paper: "ME patient experiences: Sampling bias limits the external validity...
Searching my collection of papers, it looks like these questions were taken from another scale called "Adult Responses to Children's Symptoms"...
There was a short NCHS Data Brief from November 2023 with some more data from the same (2021-2022) NHIS survey:...
Background Fibromyalgia (FM) is a disease characterized by chronic widespread pain concomitant with various symptoms such as fatigue and anxiety....
I think Bicentennial was quoting my post, so: The first question I had when I saw the term was: what illnesses are they including in the concept...
A #ThereForME guest post by @dave30th: "When bad science becomes orthodoxy: Reflections from a decade of debunking the PACE trial"....
I've just looked through the final version of the second module - it's available at: https://learninghub.nhs.uk/Resource/60400/Item if you...
Abstract: Chronic fatigue syndrome or myalgic encephalomyelitis (CFS/ME) is a medical condition characterized by severe and prolonged fatigue that...
"NHS England launches the Second E-learning Module on ME/CFS"...
Seems much as I expected, really... ETA: "A" version = "Adolescent"; "C" version = "Child"
There was also a mention in one of the leading articles. Both here: [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Abstract Background: This study examined the regional distribution of glial activation in essential workers with neurological post-acute sequelae...
From "Wiskott–Aldrich Syndrome protein deficiency perturbs the homeostasis of B-cell compartment in humans":...
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