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    Paul Garner on Long Covid and ME/CFS - BMJ articles and other media.

    I think this is unlikely, although I do believe he is intent on influencing treatment and care via guidelines, etc. As i have said before (probably in this thread): he had a very powerful experience in that he recovered around the time he was introduced to the mind–body stuff and clearly...
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    Opinion To Ground Research in the Lived Experience of Patients and Caregivers, Give Us a Voice! 2025 Lubell

    https://patientresearchcovid19.com/projects/patient-generated-research-hypotheses/ I thought this was a good idea. Seems the last issue was in 2024.
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    Opinion To Ground Research in the Lived Experience of Patients and Caregivers, Give Us a Voice! 2025 Lubell

    I think there is space for patients offering hypotheses and anecdata as long as they are labelled as such. So often hypotheses are presented as fact. There was a patient-led hypotheses journal for long covid, but I haven't seen it mentioned for a long time now and wonder if it died a quick death.
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    Autonomic dysfunction and vasoregulation in Long COVID-19 are linked to anti-GPCR autoantibodies, 2025, Schmitz et al

    The Germans seem really passionate about this line of research but the rest of the world doesn't seem convinced.
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    Action for ME (UK) fundraising

    The GP I saw was new to the service. I'm not even sure they are still there as they're not listed on the AfME website. It was not worthwhile, apart from to get a detailed letter about my circumstances. The GP was interested in holistic care and basically had nothing to offer. No interest in...
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    News from Canada

    Has the highlighting in these documents been done by Simon? I have absolutely no doubt that Garner is trying to influence, and may have already influenced, other guidelines.
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    Closing down of PoTS clinics in the UK

    I will tweet them and see if I can get a response.
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    Closing down of PoTS clinics in the UK

    Well, it's not good that three clinics are apparently closing, especially when rates are rising, but I would suggest changing the title of this thread to something more accurate, as we don't have evidence that all of them are closing, and it might scare people.
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    The HERITAGE study (Health Effects fRom Infection sequelae: Tailoring services and Advancing GuidancE)

    I'm suprised she is not listed as an author because I believe she is one of the more active members of BACME and a lot of this dysrgulation stuff has come from the Yorkshire Fatigue Clinic, where she works. She is herself a GP with special interest.
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    The HERITAGE study (Health Effects fRom Infection sequelae: Tailoring services and Advancing GuidancE)

    Here is the NIHR award page: https://fundingawards.nihr.ac.uk/award/NIHR174857 Note that Vikki McKeever of BACME is part of this project.
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    bodysymptoms.org: Postlaunch evaluation and update, 2025, Saunders et al

    It doesn't matter if the explaination is correct or not. A key part of this approach is the belief that just telling patients stuff, whether it's actually true/verifiable or not, can help. I think they call it psychoeducation.
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    UK BACME ME/CFS Guide to Therapy 2025

    This has excellent anti-BPS sh*tposting potential, were we ever to go down that route.
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    UK BACME ME/CFS Guide to Therapy 2025

    Yes, important point. Once you drop those fundamental tenets (deconditioning and fear avoidance), the whole house of cards collapses.
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    COFFI - The international collaborative on fatigue following infection

    Yeah, they just renamed their Youtube channel. Nothing new.
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    October 2025 IACFS/ME Conference

    Generally agree, but this one stood out. It sort of makes sense. I am big believer in focusing on the ME brain, and this seems like a good lead that could tie together seemingly disparate clues.
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    Epstein-Barr virus reprograms autoreactive B cells as antigen-presenting cells in systemic lupus erythematosus, Younis et al., 2025

    Yes, the lead author and Robinson are both on this recent paper from the Stanford groups: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2426564122
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    Epstein-Barr virus reprograms autoreactive B cells as antigen-presenting cells in systemic lupus erythematosus, Younis et al., 2025

    Some press here: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/nov/12/epstein-barr-virus-appears-to-be-trigger-of-lupus-disease-say-scientists https://www.newscientist.com/article/2504061-strongest-evidence-yet-that-the-epstein-barr-virus-causes-lupus/
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