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"Chronic fatigue can be viewed as a 'mismatch' between our demands and our capacity to meet them" Just completely clueless. Although that would be an OK definition of burnout, or overtraining, or other things that have nothing to do with ME/CFS. The article mentions that Deary has spent...

Old wine in the same old recycled bottles. Frankly these people could go so much faster at it if they just skipped the whole pretending-to-study and just publish their conclusions straight away. It's not as if their pretending-to-study adds anything to the process.

German youtuber and specialist in internal medicine and gastroenterology is asking for input about ME/CFS from patients:

Checking the definition, and the sickness response, also called sickness behavior, already well covers this set of broad symptoms. It is not discussed in the paper, so makes it feel a lot redundant to add another name for the same thing. I don't agree that psychiatry has anything to do with...

Thread from one of the researchers explaining the study:

US FDA clears DermaSensor's AI-powered skin cancer detecting device https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/us-fda-clears-dermasensors-ai-powered-skin-cancer-detecting-device-2024-01-17/ The FDA clearance is based on a study which showed that the device had a 96% sensitivity...

Hard to see how this doesn't quickly get slapped down by the advertising authority, especially claiming it for a number of conditions. Then again all she has to do is get some MDs to join in on it and get an EBM paper published about it and it all works itself out. The grift has been perfected...

Nitpicky but, uh, sorry for messing up the date in the title. Ugh, my eyes!

Persistent complement dysregulation with signs of thromboinflammation in active Long Covid Open access: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adg7942 Editor’s summary Some individuals can endure persistent, debilitating symptoms for many months after an initial severe acute respiratory...

As is usually the case, if you are still on twitter, just follow @Dakota15 and you won't miss anything: https://twitter.com/Dakota_150.

Dr Ziyad Al-Aly has given a powerful opening testimony. Dr Al-Aly has been one of the leading researchers on not just Long Covid, but on the overlap with ME/CFS and other chronic illnesses. He did not mince words, and I immensely appreciate his passion, dedication and integrity. He has faced...

For those still on twitter, there is a hashtag that was used to organize the hearing and has been used by many to share videos and excerpts of the hearing: #HELPLongCovid. Tweet from the chairman of the HELP committee, Bernie Sanders:

There really is: https://www.s4me.info/threads/1-18-2024-us-senate-hearing-on-long-covid-of-the-help-health-labor-education-pensions-committee.36940/. I should have started one announcing it so that people would know in advance. Ah well.

This committee hearing is a pretty big deal and I was kind of waiting for someone to start a thread when it was announced so here we go. Today was held a historic committee hearing on Long Covid, with some discussion of the commonality of chronic illness and its history as it relates to ME/CFS...

Well, rain definitely adds to the burden of hurricanes, but weather scientists don't go around claiming that the rain that fell during the hurricane is what caused it, even though you technically could make a case for it if you really wanted to and didn't care about being accurate, or respecting...

Well, those sure are a bunch of words arranged in some particular order. Constantly weak bunch of words in some particular order. Have they considered exploring the proximate bidirectional relationship between Meyers-Briggs scores and astrological lifeline projections on the...

The funny thing about that is that it's the same story as the "brain retraining" folks, so it's exactly the same as the entire biopsychosocial approach, just replace a few things that make no difference. Congrats on our BPS overlords for being identical to this crap. You deserve it in full.

Today, the initiative has released 11 "Good practice statements", that to my opinion amount to "health care professionals and public health officers should do their job". So far they have not done their job, so I doubt this will matter much. In my responses to the surveys over those statements...

There doesn't appear to be a thread for the federally-funded program contracted to Cochrane Canada and the McMaster University GRADE Centre to develop guidelines for Long Covid, which they call Post-COVID19 condition. The total funding appears to be $9M CAD. So far a few surveys have been sent...

For sure, it has been at least several days since the last one. Uh, no. There are no controlled trials of CBT because it cannot be properly controlled. Usually they simply don't expand the acronym and allude to controlled when they mean clinical, but this just shows how meaningless words are in...