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National Geographic An overdose drug shows promise for long COVID patients quote: For decades, low-dose naltrexone, or LDN, has been used to treat a number of chronic conditions, including autoimmune disorders such as multiple sclerosis and Crohn’s disease, post-infectious conditions such as...

I heard about that. I think it was both that they are progressive in genetic research and also is such a small country that it's possible for them to have mapped the entire population? Agree it sounded strange to partner with Norway, but I was afraid someone had been "inspired" by our knowledge...

oh, I did not spot that. Yes, if only!

oh, that's strange.. yes, seems it might have been deleted. I think it was WHO Europe who had shared a link about Long Covid and gaming, that gaming universes had made a "long Covid" mode to increase awareness. @rvallee knows more about it and shared both a tweet with working link as well as...

oh, good news! according to a post in a Facebook group it's likely that Google translate did a mistake and confused Northern Icelandic health authorities for the Norwegian Health Authority, so Norway has no part in the development of this knowledge center :)

Spotted this via Invest in ME on Facebook. Yesterday it was announced that the Hospital in Akureyri, in cooperation with the Norwegian Health Authority will establish a knowledge center on ME. Akureyri was part of a large outbreak of ME/CFS in the 1940's. (For a time ME/CFS was called the...

Could be interesting. Launches tomorrow:

20 year old Eline Leer-Salvesen is suffering from severe ME and has written an opinion piece in the newspaper Aftenposten. She did that by recording speak with her mother transcribing, and then Eline edited. She writes about her life and what she is missing out on, but also that being sick has...

24 year old Maria is suffering from severe ME. For four years she was not able to take a shower or see her siblings. Now she is posting TikTok videos about her life. A health researcher says social media can be useful when informing about health and the general secretary of the Norwegian ME...

25 year old Aurora is suffering from severe ME. She is placed in a health institution in Oslo where she is deteriorating and not receiving proper care. She has been kept there against her will for 15 months. Another young severe ME sufferer, Emilie Brandshaug has written an excellent opinion...

Medscape: Clinical Trials: Top Priority for Long COVID by Hannah Davis quote: This article aims to share key considerations and best practices that are essential to the success of these trials. These recommendations recognize that roughly half of long COVID patients have new-onset myalgic...

This is a paper from the Norwegian Institute for Public Health who has downplayed Long Covid since day one and also argued for a "let it rip" approach to the pandemic.

ABSTRACT We studied the prevalence and patterns of typical long COVID complaints in ~ 2.3 million individuals aged 18–70 years with and without confirmed COVID-19 in a Nation-wide population-based prospective cohort study in Norway. Our main outcome measures were the period prevalence of...

I'm listening to the podcast now. Avindra Nath is very interesting as always, not so sure about the podcaster who is also a doctor. The podcaster says he works a lot with chronic fatigue and says he has been cooperating with Bruce Patterson (from IncellDx which claimed to have a cure for long...

Haven't heard it myself yet, but saw on Twitter that Avindra Nath has talked about Covid-19 and brain fog in a podcast Back in 2020 they had an episode on ME which doesn't seem good, but haven't given it a listen: "Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: The Disease No Doctor Wants to See". Episode...

Such great news, and nice to see ME mentioned too: Akiko Iwasaki, Ph.D. and a professor at Yale University, will receive this year’s Else Kröner Fresenius Prize for Medical Research on June 5th, 2023 at the Palmengarten in Frankfurt, Germany. The prize is endowed with 2.5 million euros, and...

There were some articles in the Norwegian media not long ago about an increase of children refusing to go to school. This was explained as due to psychosocial factors concerning the pandemic, but I remember thinking it could just as well be post viral disease. poor kids. what are we doing to...

Shared by virologist Stephen Griffin on Twitter who comments: "Our findings emphasise the importance of reducing the COVID-19 burden in young people" Omicron breakthrough in CYP with previous delta infection more likely to cause #LongCovidKids Yes, a 3.5 yr PHEIC is arbitrarily ended, but a...

eBioMedicine Part of THE LANCET Discovery Science Post COVID-19 condition after delta infection and omicron reinfection in children and adolescents Summary Background The burden of COVID-19 in children and adolescents has increased during the delta and omicron waves, necessitating studies of...

NIH News Release NIH study identifies features of Long COVID neurological symptoms quote: The results showed that people with Long COVID had lower levels of CD4+ and CD8+ T cells—immune cells involved in coordinating the immune system’s response to viruses—compared to healthy controls...