I thought this was a very useful paper. It is well written and clear. I'd like to see staff of research organisations and research funding...
We had that example just yesterday of a woman writing a blog about how a vaccination seemed to cure her Long Covid. What wasn't clear to me from...
I agree that support groups could do much more to counter unevidenced claims. Too often we see support groups actually amplifying nonsense. I'd...
A local research organisation that is crowd-funding. You can also volunteer to be part of studies. More here: NZ: Post-Viral Research Aotearoa -...
https://www.dysimmune.nz/ Crowd-Funded Research into Long Covid, ME/CFS & Other Post-Viral Illnesses Hosted at the University of Auckland...
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She became ill in Dec 2021 - [edit, as I had assumed her recovery was recent] - she had the vaccinations and followup in April 2022 - so no more...
For sure, although the author of the blog does acknowledge that. I can understand someone who experienced an improvement around the time of...
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The National Ethics Advisory Committee is recruiting for several members: https://careers.health.govt.nz/jobs/MOH-1708380 This committee has a...
Some paragraphs I thought were interesting wrt ME/CFS:
Paraphrasing the paper: Mitochondria are tethered to the ER. During environmental stress, the contact sites become even tighter. Calcium and...
Relevant to the NIH finding of WASF3 abnormalities as discussed here: 2022: NIH study of mitochondria in ME/CFS- WASF3, WAVE3 This thread may...
https://www.mdpi.com/2218-273X/11/2/173/htm Abstract Recent studies undoubtedly show the importance of inter organellar connections to maintain...
The NIH finding on WASF3 is discussed more here: 2022: NIH study of mitochondria in ME/CFS- WASF3, WAVE3
That issue isn't impossible to manage. Comorbidities are separate diseases that might be able to be treated; I don't think the fact that, for...
What came first? The feeling of being overwhelmed with work causes the physical symptoms? Or the physical symptoms reduces the capacity to cope...
We've seen prostaglandins mentioned recently in this paper: An airway-to-brain sensory pathway mediates influenza-induced sickness 2023 Bin et al...
It looks like this study was funded by some NHS Clinical Commissioning Groups, which helps to explain the focus on reduced healthcare usage. (And...
On Allan Abbass: He has a personal website titled http://reachingthroughresistance.com It seems that ISTDP is an invention of a Canadian; it is...
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