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Abstract Purpose of review A large and growing number of patients have persistent gastrointestinal symptoms that they attribute to COVID-19. SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, replicates within the gut and acute COVID-19 is associated with alteration of the gut microbiome. This...

Key Points Question Is SARS-CoV-2 seropositivity associated with symptoms of myalgic encephalomyelitis and/or chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) in children and adolescents? Findings This cross-sectional study of hospital-based SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence surveys in Germany compared...

They summarise their AGM in this article, https://www.actionforme.org.uk/news/agm-2022/

Given that Heald has published papers on the Perrin Technique with Raymond Perrin himself, as well as providing a foreword for Perrin's book, I'm struggling to believe "Conflicts of interest There are no conflicts of interest."

"Response to the report published by the UK House of Commons All-Party Parliamentary Group on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalitis (CFS/ME): implications for cardiometabolic risk" by Low, Brookes, and Heald "Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalitis (CFS/ME) is associated with...

Objectives: Somatic symptom disorder is characterized by excessive thoughts, feelings, and behaviors dedicated to bodily symptoms, which are often medically unexplained. Although 13% of the population are affected by this disorder, its aetiopathogenesis is not fully understood. Research in...

Abstract Psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES) are the main differential diagnosis of pharmacorresistant epilepsy. Achieving the certainty in the diagnosis of PNES may be challenging, especially in the 10-22% of cases in which PNES and epilepsy co-exist. This difficulty hampers the...

We have been experiencing multiple waves of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. With these unprecedented waves, we have entered into an era of ‘new normal’. This pandemic has enforced us to rethink the very basics of childhood learning: Habits, health etiquette, and hygiene...

Highlights • Up to a third of survivors of severe COVID-19 develops long-term cognitive impairment. • Subjective cognitive complaints six months following severe COVID-19 do not correlate with objective cognitive impairment. • COVID-19 related immunomodulatory therapy is not associated with the...

Since the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak has become a pandemic, medical staff and researchers have devotedly managed the disease in terms of pathogens, prevention, and treatment. Even so, the virus continues to wreak havoc in people's lives. Recent evidence shows that patients with...

The clinical presentation that emerges from the extensive coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) mental health literature suggests high correlations among many conventional psychiatric diagnoses. Arguments against the use of multiple comorbidities for a single patient have been published long...

Abstract Objectives COVID-19 has infected millions of people worldwide, with growing evidence that individuals with a history of infection may continue to show persistent post-COVID symptoms (long COVID). The aim of this study was to investigate sleep health in an international sample of...

Abstract The ongoing novel coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has had considerable effects on the disability community. As the pandemic has progressed and changed, the manifestations of these effects have differed, and yet the underlying causes—ableism including the devaluation of disabled...

News in Brief posts for w/c 19th Sept. https://www.facebook.com/sci4me/posts/pfbid024rMYoiFXPmTb32vJt5cCuqPmUMidkuYVCUQi7fskvHFnbJZSZkmmr3GMDMSeWRvdl and published papers thread. https://www.facebook.com/sci4me/posts/pfbid02vydwtAgyMdRfXefBqBBrmiB96vwZ2E646PdxNaqWWXKgtmSv92w67DAsYDD7xRJyl

Wow. I can't wait for their next paper, "Everytime we turn on a blue light, we gave people an electric shock. These people have developed, for some reason, a fear of blue lights being turned on. If we convince them not to fear what happens when a blue light is turned on, this will mean they are...

Link to another letter about the study to the journal, Lambrechts and Jacobs, claims to be open access but seems to be paywalled, https://academic.oup.com/brain/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/brain/awac346/6713528 Link to reply from the authors, claims to be open access but also seems to...

Abstract Cross-sectional data indicate that acute SARS-CoV-2 infection increases resting muscle sympathetic nerve activity (MSNA) and alters hemodynamic responses to orthostasis in young adults. However, the longitudinal impact of contracting SARS-CoV-2 on autonomic function remains unclear...

Abstract As of 2022, close to 90 million persons in the United States, 243 million persons in Europe and 585 million worldwide have been infected with the novel SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) virus and survived. Estimates vary but suggest that up to 50% may experience long-term sequelae, termed...

Abstract Background Patients with long-COVID often complain of continuous fatigue, myalgia, sleep problems, cognitive dysfunction, and post-exertional malaise. No data are available on EMG recording of evoked myopotentials (M-waves) or exercise-induced alterations in long-COVID patients...

Not that I have any suggestions to give at this moment, but do you specifically need papers about ME/CFS communities or would papers about other communities be helpful as well?