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Medscape More Than 100 Million People Worldwide Have or Had Long COVID: Study quote: The most common symptom was fatigue, which affected about 23% of people with lingering issues. Other symptoms, such as shortness of breath, insomnia, joint pain, and memory problems, were reported by 13% of...

Just started to watch this webinar now, and ME specialists have already been referred to twice as very useful for doctors caring for Long Covid patients. the organiser is Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Title: Understanding Long COVID: The Unseen Public Health Crisis ETA: This seems...

Good article about the revised NICE guideline in a Danish newspaper for medical news. The Danish ME Association is interviewed and says Denmark needs to catch up. The Danish Health Authority didn't reply when the journalist reached out to them for a statement for the article. Dagens Medicin...

The Irish Times The long and short of it - 'Long-Covid' is not unique in viral illnesses quotes: Immunologists don’t know for sure why SARS-CoV-2 causes extended ill health. But it resembles “post-viral fatigue syndrome,” which has been known for decades. “Brain fog and general malaise are...

NIH Long-term study of children with COVID-19 begins quotes: A large, long-term study of the impacts of COVID-19 on children has enrolled its first participant at the National Institutes of Health’s Clinical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. The study, which is supported by the National Institute...

Professor Karl Johan Tronstad has written an opinion piece for a Norwegian news site about research on why exercise make ME patients deteriorate. He mentions the NICE guideline, describes PEM and gives an overview of what research has uncovered so far about PEM. Hva er årsaken til at trening...

San Fransisco Chronicle COVID appears here to stay. But what about the 'long' version of the disease? quote: What’s missing, eight months after vaccines became widely available, is good data about how people with breakthrough infections experience long COVID, said Dr. Linda Geng, co-medical...

It has a website, but in Norwegian only. Here anyone who meet pupils with ME in their work; teachers, school nurses, other health care workers, can sign up for a course for free. https://www.meogskole.no

Moved post. In the last Weekly Clinical Update with dr. Griffin, at 15.48 minutes, he talks about not really seeing Long Covid in vaccinated people that get infected. He has reached out to many infectious disease physicians who combined are caring for millions of patients, asking them as well...

She has given several interviews on how she recovered from ME with mindfulness at psychiatrist Bjarte Stubhaug. here is an interview with the Journal of the Norwegian Medical Association. Google translation here

A news site about health has an article about Long Covid rehabilitation at a Norwegian clinic. The approach is based on a 3 day intervention against OCD and anxiety, which the clinic is now using to treat other diagnoses as well, as diabetes, back pain and now Long Covid. The psychiatrist who is...

NPR New clues to the biology of long COVID are starting to emerge quotes: "It's still early days. But we believe that long COVID is not caused by one thing. That there are multiple diseases that are happening," says Akiko Iwasaki, a professor of immunobiology at Yale University who is also...

It is usually the other way around, with the BPS'ers setting the agenda with all kinds of strange stuff. This time it was the professors Saugstad and Rønning who started the debate with a great opinion piece, and now the BPS'ers for once, are the ones who must try to put out the fire.

The Danish local newspaper Ugeavisen Esbjerg has covered ME (particularly severe ME) many times, and has now interviewed the parents of a severely ill woman about the NICE guideline and its implication for ME patients in Denmark. ME-familie: Det kan forandre alt google translation: It can...

And now Lightning Process coach Live Landmark is also weighing in in the debate about the NICE guideline.. It's in the same newspaper as the other opinion pieces about same topic. Helsedirektoratet må tåle presset fra ME-pasienter google translation: The Norwegian Directorate of Health must...

This is a study from Aarhus, Denmark recently published as a paywalled Letter to the Editor in the journal Psychotherapy and Psychosomatic. Aarhus University has written a press release about the study. Aarhus is by the way also where Per Fink is located and the epicentre of the Danish...

The Lancet Global Surveillance, research, and collaboration needed to improve understanding and management of long COVID by Helen Ward et al quotes: A hidden epidemic of long COVID is possible given the challenges in access to care and uncertainty about diagnostic criteria—factors that will...

The program for the other conference is now available. This one is open for everyone, whilst the research conference November 22-23 is only for researchers, health care personnel and student. Both are organised by the Norwegian ME Association and takes place in Oslo. On their facebook page they...

There was also an opinion piece by a psychiatrist (who among other was a co-author to Reme's Lightning Process paper). Underlige påstander om ME-pasienter google translation: Strange claims about ME patients The authors don't mention that Nice refers to ME/CFS as a "medical condition" based on...

24 health professionals, including Wyller, Fors, Reme and other known names from the biopsychosocial brigade have written a response. They seem rather furious. Debatten om ME er IKKE over! google translation: The debate about ME is NOT over! There is no professional disagreement that changes...