there are some sceptical threads on IncellDX and Dr. Patterson already, as this one
https://www.s4me.info/threads/usa-incelldx-dr-patterson-new-lab-service-offering-cytokine-tests-to-covid-longhaulers.20434/
Science News Who has the highest risk of long COVID? It's complicated
“There are a variety of different kinds of ways that people can have long COVID. It’s not just the one thing,” says Leora Horwitz, an internal medicine physician at New York University Langone Health. “That’s what makes it so...
Professor Ola D. Saugstad has been interviewed about Røysumunet:
TV2: Professor: - Veldig lovende resultater for ME-syke
google translation: Professor: - Very promising results for ME sufferers
quotes:
One year after this first national offer for severe ME patients was established, you can...
Quote:
Taken together, our study provides evidence that patients following mild COVID-19 develop a chronic syndrome fulfilling diagnostic criteria of ME/CFS in a subset.
By defining and characterizing subgroups of PCS patients we could identify associations of HGS with biomarkers which may...
Full title: A prospective observational study of post-COVID-19 chronic fatigue syndrome following the first pandemic wave in Germany and biomarkers associated with symptom severity
Abstract
A subset of patients has long-lasting symptoms after mild to moderate Coronavirus disease 2019...
Financial Times The growing evidence that Covid-19 is leaving people sicker
quotes:
As he started to see a rise in certain conditions in the first year of the pandemic, Strain assumed it was the result of people being unable or unwilling to access healthcare. Only as the pandemic entered its...
The Finnish Association of Orthopaedic Manual Therapy organises a conference in October in Tempere, Finland.
From the program:
Friday, October 7, 2022
Finnish Time (+1 Hour CET/ +3 Hours UTC)
8.30 Registration, Coffee
9.00-9.05 Conference Opening
9.05-9.15 Welcoming, President of FIAOMT...
Article today about the study where Research Director Signe Flottorp from the Norwegian Institute for Public Health (FIH) comments.
Google translated quote:
The head of research at FHI is not surprised by what emerges in the American study,
- It is interesting, but not surprising, says...
STAT Biden's long Covid plan is a good start. But it needs to go further
by Ryan Prior and Kimberley Knackstedt
quotes:
Advocates and patients decry a lack of scientific progress and social recognition for the chronic disease that is upending their lives.
...
Viewing long Covid through a...
This was an informative talk with Dr. Rowe. Nothing new for us, but probably very useful for clinicians.
Dr. Rowe says there is a variety of chronic symptoms after Covid. He distinguishes between Long Covid as in symptoms from the acute infection in for instance patients who were hospitalised...
Peter la Cour has background among other as Leader of Knowledge Center for functional diseases in Copenhagen. CV in English here
I don't know how he got interested in ME, but he has written several great articles where he's been very critical against classifying ME as a functional disorder and...
Some translated pieces from the second half of the report:
Social services
10 of the 19 participants didn't get any help at all regarding care from their municipality. Only 2 with need of 24 hour care were fully financially covered. The relationships with the municipalities were by almost...
Some translated pieces from the first half of the report:
The home visits were done between January and April 2022.
All participants had been diagnosed with ME by a specialist according to the consensus criteria.
The home visits lasted between 2 - 4 hours. When possible, the patient...
Moderation note:
Abstract and link to the English version are in this later post - link
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Yesterday the Danish Clinic Mehlsen by professor and psychologist Peter la Cour, PhD and Susanne la Cour, GP published a report based on home visits and interviews with 19 severe ME patients and...
A rare news story about long Covid from Norway. No mention of ME.
It's about a study, Symptom burden and immune dynamics 6 to 18 months following mild SARS-CoV-2 infection - a case-control study, 2022 (Bergen COVID-19 Research Group et al) who followed up 233 Covid-19 patients from the start of...
Science Blood abnormalities found in people with Long Covid
Quote:
An ambitious study of people with Long Covid, the mysterious, disabling symptoms that can trail a SARS-CoV-2 infection, has turned up a host of abnormalities in their blood. The clues add to a body of evidence hinting at drivers...
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