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A Q&A with Emily Lim Rogers who is a teacher and has a current research project about ME, "probing what scientific uncertainty about the illness reveals about the fraught gendered and racialized dynamics that determine who is considered ill and examining the uneven uptake of debility in the...

She makes a reference to other post-viral illness in the article where she links to "ME/CFS: Essentials of Diagnosis and Management" by Lucinda Bateman et al and to Brian Hughes', Steven Lubet's and David Tuller's article in Health Affairs. Quote (my bold): Understanding how many people have...

Per Magnus from the Norwegian Institute of Public Health and also one of the researchers of the study said on TV today that he believed research into Long Covid could provide insight in other conditions, like ME. We're quite behind in this country when it comes to both Long Covid and ME, but I...

Also the newspaper Morgenbladet had an article about the study, with comments from among other prof. Wyller. It's paywalled, so here's a summary: First the article introduces the findings. The data was collected when most people were unvaccinated, so next step is to examine long term symptoms...

ScienceNorway has an article about the study New study on Long Covid: Brain fog, poor memory and shortness of breath one year after infection quote: In a preprint published on medRxiv, the researchers write that as their results suggest that different people experience clusters of symptoms...

Article from Canada with among other professor Simon Décary and with several mentions of ME: Maclean's Chronic exhaustion, derailed lives and no way out. This is long COVID. Quotes: ME/CFS’s most notable characteristic is enduring and disabling fatigue. People with ME/CFS, the vast majority...

I don't know how many times I've read that story about this young woman... I believe the first time was ten years ago. At least the article refers to LP as alternative treatment, but otherwise no critical journalism :(

Moved post The media here today is covering a preprint from the Norwegian Institute of Public Health on Long Covid. The paper is titled: Excess risk and clusters of symptoms after COVID-19 in a large Norwegian cohort and is based on another project where the institute is following 70,000...

Thank you for sharing that, @Sly Saint I think dr. Peter Rowe did an excellent job in giving information about ME. The interviewer is a doctor himself, and was fishing a bit for psychological co-explanations for ME, but towards the end turned around completely and actually warned against...

Medscape has an article about the report including a comment from Dr. David Strain. Medscape: Healthcare Workers 'Most Likely to Report Long COVID Symptoms' Quote: Commenting on the findings for the Science Media Centre, Dr David Strain, senior clinical lecturer at the University of Exeter...

Moved from the general long covid thread The Office for National Statistics has published the report: Prevalence of ongoing symptoms following coronavirus (COVID-19) infection in the UK: 6 January 2021. They estimate 1,3 million people in the UK are have been experiencing self-reported long...

Thanks and sorry about that. The first is my spelling error (and now fixed), but the other is how Medscape is spelling it. What is the correct spelling? ETA: Googled it. Seems it's Trazodone?

Here it is. Worth reading:

The Guardian - Opinion piece Could micro clots help explain the mystery of long Covid? by professor Resia Pretorius quotes: A recent study in my lab revealed that there is significant microclot formation in the blood of both acute Covid-19 and long Covid patients. With healthy physiology...

Each question is then followed with some additional information. Very nice to see the this information in connection with question 4: Cognitive-behavioral therapy and graded exercise therapy were recommended for ME/CFS in the past. However, studies supporting those approaches have been widely...

Medscape has made a quiz based on the consensus recommendations from the US ME/CFS Clinical Coalition. Here are the questions with the answers to choose from: Question 1 According to 2020 consensus recommendation, which of these is a symptom required for a diagnosis of ME/CFS? Myalgia...

- In this episode Llewellyn King talks with Rivka Solomon, a longtime ME advocate and patient who lives in western Massachusetts.

The review is from December 2021. Thought it could be of interest for some members of the forum. Even as a stress treatment, there might be some limitations to this practice and sometimes mindfulness in the Western world seems to be used mostly as a cheap band-aid that doesn't solve anything...

Abstract Background Mindfulness interventions are increasingly popular as an approach to improve mental well‐being. To date, no Cochrane Review examines the effectiveness of mindfulness in medical students and junior doctors. Thus, questions remain regarding the efficacy of mindfulness...