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  1. Sly Saint

    UK House of Lords/ House of Commons - relevant people and questions

    John Martin McDonnell Labour, Hayes and Harlington To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to increase awareness of symptoms of (a) chronic fatigue syndrome and (b) long covid. Hansard source (Citation: HC Deb, 15 December 2020, cW)...
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    BPS attempts at psychologizing Long Covid

    not a recommendation piece in Psychology today When the Body Speaks Let's not neglect the physical symptoms of emotional distress during COVID-19. (note Michael Sharpe is current president of ACLP) https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/nobodys-normal/202012/when-the-body-speaks
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    UK: Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) articles, blogs and discussion

    IAPT’s Black Hole – Accountability 14th December 2020 http://www.cbtwatch.com/iapts-black-hole-accountability/
  4. Sly Saint

    Independent advisory group for the full update of the Cochrane review on exercise therapy and ME/CFS (2020), led by Hilda Bastian

    @Hilda Bastian worth a read @PhysiosforME review of new NICE guidelines. https://www.physiosforme.com/post/physios-for-me-view-on-nice-guidelines
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    Can physical assessment techniques aid diagnosis in people with CFS/ME? A diagnostic accuracy study, 2017, Perrin et al

    as per another thread on the Perrin technique, Perrin is continuing with his courses based on this research. Mar 13 Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/ME & Fibromyalgia-13-14 March 2021 given that this diagnostic criteria bears no relation to the new guidelines (or the old ones), it highlights the...
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    Finland: Helsinki University Hospital’s Outpatient Clinic for Functional Disorders treats ME/CFS patients

    https://mecentraal.wordpress.com/2020/12/15/helsinki-university-hospitals-outpatient-clinic-for-functional-disorders-treats-me-cfs-patients/
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    NICE ME/CFS guideline - draft published for consultation - 10th November 2020

    further blog from Valerie Eliot-Smith NICE, the media and the cultural problem of myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) December 14, 2020 https://valerieeliotsmith.com/2020/12/14/nice-the-media-and-the-cultural-problem-of-myalgic-encephalomyelitis-me/
  8. Sly Saint

    ‘Help Holger now’ video about a Swedish man with very severe ME

    #rememberSophiaMirza https://voicesfromtheshadowsfilm.co.uk/
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    News about Long Covid including its relationship to ME/CFS 2020 to 2021

    What Now: POST COVID-19 Syndrome, Long Haulers & Multi-System Inflammatory Syndrome (MIS) https://integrative.ca/blog/what-now-post-covid-19-syndrome-long-haulers-multi-system-inflammatory-syndrome-mis
  10. Sly Saint

    News from Australia

    New ME/CFS SA website launched! Dec 11 https://mecfssa.org.au/
  11. Sly Saint

    Paediatric chronic fatigue syndrome: 25 year perspective, 2020, Loades, Crawley, Chalder et al

    Reminds me of that balloon debate 'game' "In a balloon debate, speakers must argue their case for not being thrown out of a hot-air balloon. "
  12. Sly Saint

    U.K. trial Rehabilitation exercise and psychological support after Covid 19 infection (REGAIN) Warwick University

    the REGAIN trial https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/med/research/ctu/trials/regain https://fundingawards.nihr.ac.uk/award/NIHR132046 Award: £1,191,977.49
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    Measurement Schmeasurement: Questionable Measurement Practices and How to Avoid Them

    there are also Questionable Research practices (QRPs) see https://www.s4me.info/threads/questionable-research-practices-among-italian-research-psychologists-2017-agnoli-et-al.17508/
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    BMJ Rapid Response: Dr Nina Muirhead

    @EducateME Brilliant letter, thank-you. Just one little thing ".. up to a quarter of patients are bedbound or housebound." it's actually far worse than that see https://www.s4me.info/threads/why-are-the-majority-of-pwme-rarely-mentioned.7732/
  15. Sly Saint

    NICE ME/CFS guideline - draft published for consultation - 10th November 2020

    If that's the case I hope that people like those who signed @dave30th letter to the Lancet re the PACE trial retraction, who are not in the UK, have voiced their support for removal of GET/CBT and for the downgrading of all the 'evidence'. Just to show that it's not just the 'vocal minority' of...
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    Dr Alastair Miller's misleading claims about effectiveness of the English NHS (rehab) ME/CFS clinics, Royal Society of Medicine webinar in Sept '20

    also now on their website https://measussex.org.uk/cfs-me-and-covid19-dr-alastair-miller-december/ eta: if anyones interested Dr Miller is on twitter
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    UK House of Lords/ House of Commons - relevant people and questions

    "Marco Longhi Conservative, Dudley North To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if will he make an assessment of the potential merits of reclassifying (a) myalgic encephalomyelitis and (b) chronic fatigue syndrome as a disability. Hansard source (Citation: HC Deb, 4...
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