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I made a new thread for the study/article here: Saliva antibody-fingerprint of reactivated latent viruses after mild/asymptomatic COVID-19 is unique in patients with myalgic-encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome, 2022, Apostolou et al

Saliva antibody-fingerprint of reactivated latent viruses after mild/asymptomatic COVID-19 is unique in patients with myalgic-encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome Eirini Apostolou, Muhammad Rizwan, Petros Moustardas, Per Sjögren, Bo Christer Bertilson, Björn Bragée, Olli Polo and Anders...

Video recordings from the conference are now available on RME's YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYOw04J29tY5hTLDtdjoaog/videos

Björn Bragée on Facebook (auto-translate): "Tomorrow morning at 10.30, we'll be releasing an interesting research story on TV4's morning news, alongside the publication of the article in a prestigious journal. Don't want to say much more than that together with Linköping University (Department...

One of the authors comments on Twitter: "We had a paragraph in our reply where we questioned that the journal of the Swedish Medical Association even publishes a reply that refers to an article from 1970 as support in the argumentation about postcovid. Unfortunately, it was deleted."

News article in the journal of the Swedish Medical Association: Projekt om ME/CFS stoppas – kan bryta mot etikprövningslagen https://lakartidningen.se/aktuellt/nyheter/2022/10/projekt-om-me-cfs-stoppas-kan-bryta-mot-etikprovningslagen/ Many many thanks to @MittEremltage for all your hard work...

BPS proponents David Gyll, Carl Sjöström and Henrik Vogt wrote a reply: Brett perspektiv ger precision vid postcovid https://lakartidningen.se/opinion/debatt/2022/10/brett-perspektiv-ger-precision-vid-postcovid/ Google Translate, English ("Broad perspective provides precision in postcovid")...

Thank you so much for the summary! Incredibly helpful :)

Jonas Bergquist was on the Swedish breakfast show TV4 Nyhetsmorgon this morning, together with a young person with ME and her mother. Smilla drabbades av sjukdomen ME: ”Allt roligt försvann”, 2 min 31 sek Smilla Thelander var en aktiv tjej men drabbades av sjukdomen ME när hon var 13 år. Och...

New article about Swedish former professional tennis player Robin Söderling, and his book (memoir?) "Sluten" that is being released in Sweden today. Epstein-Barr virus infection and ME/CFS were mentioned in several articles during the first few years of him being ill. I don't know if ME is...

(Sharing only as info, not meant to be a recommendation.) Phoenixmottagningen Järna in Sweden (formerly known as Vidarkliniken) is offering a talk on ME from an anthroposophic perspective on Friday 21 October. https://www.facebook.com/events/s/temakvall-om-mecfs/339180281738950/

Thank you so so much for this! Incredibly helpful, and I really appreciate it :)

Disgusting :mad:

Same :(:grumpy:

Some fan groups have been making and sharing "covid bingo cards" on social media, documenting confirmed covid cases after shows, in order to encourage people to get tested, isolate, wear masks etc. Here's an example from July (Krakow, Poland). (P.S. There are plenty of alternative speculations...

Great work, @MittEremltage :thumbup: Thank you so much!

For their own data on ME patients they are referring to the questionnaires you are required to fill in before you know if they will you accept you as a patient or not, before your first visit at the clinic. They are the basis for most of their research, it seems?

In an article published 29 September 2022, Bragée argues that there is a proven link between ME and difficult childhood experiences. Svåra livsupplevelser: Många har aldrig berättat för någon https://www.bragee.se/svara-upplevelser (my bolding)

(Not ME specific but very much relevant to all disabled people in Sweden, including pwME.) Sweden's new chairman of the Committee on Justice wants to remove the law against discrimination. (He is representing a political party with fascist and Nazi history, and they feel they are often being...

A Swedish report on post-covid (commissioned by the government) was published today: Postcovid i praktiken: En kartläggning av vården och omsorgen av personer med postcovid https://www.vardanalys.se/rapporter/postcovid-i-praktiken/ Here's a news article on it: Vård- och omsorgsanalys...