Thanks, I was able to read a copy thanks to the help of @lycaena. It's mostly about problems with the cognitive behavioural model of ME/CFS. If I...
Thanks for the reading tip! The whole 'positive thinking is healthy' - movement also seems worth digging in to, but will probably take us a while.
I was hoping that there would be some good books on the topic that I could read and then summarize, but to my surprise, there was very little that...
But NICE will likely not recommend ACT, so I suppose they will have to change the wording on their website. Perhaps it will look something like...
In a new blog series, we will investigate how illnesses were once thought to result from stress, psychological disturbance, or deviant personality...
Interestingly their website states: "We believe that all clinical care should have an evidence base. We therefore only offer treatment that has...
I do not find it surprising that the number of cases increased over time. Underrepresentation of older people and increase of awareness of ME/CFS...
Twitter summary: [MEDIA] 2) One has to take the results with a grain of salt because respondents to such surveys are not necessarily a...
The Norwegian ME Association just published an impressive survey on 5.822 ME patients in Norway. An English summary is available here:...
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Abstract Reports of long-lasting coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) symptoms, the so-called ‘long COVID’, are rising but little is known about...
Thanks for sharing your experience @Nixxy
Thought this is a good example of why what Jason Busse propose is problematic. How Covid-sceptics were duped by the “wonder drug” ivermectin...
GRADE rates each outcome separately. I think there is even an example of an unblinded trial where the subjective outcome was downgraded but the...
It's interesting to get an overview of the different European countries: The situation in the Netherlands isn't adequately described - there is...
Some quotes from the paper: [MEDIA] 2) “Serious concerns were expressed about GPs’ knowledge and understanding of ME/CFS, and, it was felt,...
Well said. This seems to be one of the main issues: that GRADE does not believe in a fatal flaw that makes 'evidence' totally unreliable. The...
It's great news but Busse and colleagues have focused on the review on GET and haven't brought up CBT yet.
The Cochrane review on GET seems to be one of the main reasons why people think GET is effective. And it mustn't be flawed because Cohrane hasn't...
Someone referred me to this, suggesting it might be useful for ME/CFS. Don't know much more about it. Here's the link: https://covidgraph.org/
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