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  1. James

    Statements on conflict of interest of PACE trial TSC

    Aylward headed UnumProvident Centre For Psychosocial And Disability Research, starting June 2004 https://dpac.uk.net/2016/09/two-apparent-irregularities-involving-unum-atos-and-dwp/ Letter dated 22nd July seems at odds with this report
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    GETSET letters in The Lancet

    Teletherapy for the homebound have we not done that with A J Weardon FINE trial - "The bastards don't want to get better”
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    The Canary: More coverage of Wilshire et al's latest PACE study

    The war is no longer fought on BPS terms backed by the establishment and a narrative controlled by @SMC_London it has gone global with media sharing outside of the bubble. The scientific debate is moving on with articles such as this unthinkable before the tide began changing it will leave the...
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    Dutch Health Council on ME/CFS tomorrow on national news

    A google translate version http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=nl&tl=en&u=https://www.gezondheidsraad.nl/sites/default/files/grpublication/kernadvies_me_cvs.pdf
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    BACME Meeting 14-15 March

    Can I propose Objective Evidence as a name
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    BACME Meeting 14-15 March

    Report improvement on a questionnaire and it will be believed :thumbup: report deterioration on the same questionnaire and BACME have treatment for those "irrational illness beliefs" :banghead: ps my actometer is running in the 4.30 at Kempton :trophy@
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    BACME Meeting 14-15 March

    Struggling with the concept that smart phones are not as easily cheated as actometers as both could be carried by a working sheepdog for some pretty impressive activity levels :whistle:
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    Journal of Health Psychology - New Trial Data Sharing Policy

    Looks as though they are aiming for what PLOS should have been.
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    The Norwegian Directorate of Health receives letter signed 308 parents

    The thinly veiled threat that is given for complaints about similar NHS services is that already sparse treatment provision will be reduced further if such clinics are not allowed a continuation on the biopsychosocial bandwagon.
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    Health secretary admits official failings over a number of medical treatment issues

    No halt on using mesh and no halt on GET this kicks the can further up the road while the amount of harm done is debated.
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    What does rapid build-up of lactic acid in muscles mean?

    Pyruvate mentioned once more and it does seem an important part in the puzzle https://www.hindawi.com/journals/jar/2016/2497348/
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    Data Sharing & Reanalysis

    The MRC list that objective on their website: Every year, the MRC invests around £850 million of public money in research, the primary output of which is data. We want to maximise the research opportunities that such a diversity, richness and quantity of data provides. One of the best ways of...
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    Data Sharing & Reanalysis

    The data shared is a check on research integrity by anyone motivated and qualified that questions research reports in a journal. The NIH have been pushing for common data elements since around 2006 that would enable combination of data sets although the words "data parasite" have been bandied...
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    Data Sharing & Reanalysis

    Explores the effectiveness of data sharing in two journals. http://www.bmj.com/content/360/bmj.k400 Relevant as J Coyne has not received data from: Adaptive Pacing, Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, Graded Exercise, and Specialist Medical Care for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: A Cost-Effectiveness...
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    What does your crash feel like?

    Hollowed out and buzzing but not in a good way kind of shakiness Legs drained of blood and filled with concrete Only thing that can move is the eyes and the nausea is pulling the curtain down on them for sleep that is like passing out, coming partially conscious then going under again Loss of...
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    NICE announces next steps in updating its guideline on ME/CFS

    With any movement in criteria there must be awareness of the MUS diagnosis that is a fall back psychologization of any that do not yet meet stricter definitions but could if given inappropriate treatment regimes. Have no expectations that NICE will give anything more than political pressure...
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    USA Centers for Disease Control (CDC) news (including ME/CFS Stakeholder Engagement and Communication Calls) - next call 4 Dec 2024

    Déjà vu all over again http://occupyme.net/2015/08/04/no-cdc-funding-for-cfs/
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    "Prescribing Mindfulness Allows Doctors to Ignore Legitimate Female Pain"

    Time and again in these situations, the APA has trumpeted its commitment to psychology's do-no-harm ethics but then retreated into the shadows when those principled words required principled actions. A close look at the APA's stance toward the detention center at Guantanamo Bay where 5...
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    Coat hanger pain - any suggestions for relief please?

    Heat packs -wheaty bags warmed in the microwave give temporary relief.
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    "Prescribing Mindfulness Allows Doctors to Ignore Legitimate Female Pain"

    Mindfulness as "intentional, non-judgmental awareness of the present moment" cannot be the same thing that makes a judgement about the pain and decides that suppression of that awareness is the action necessary. Creates an oxymoron once an intention is used on non-judgmental awareness.
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