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Long story short, I have to renovate my bathroom and am exhausted over all the big and small decisions that needs to be made. Could I ask for your experience and opinion regarding bathroom tiles? I have a tiny bathroom and have found some beautiful patterned tiles for the floor. The walls I...

There will be a debate on Long Covid in the main chamber of House of Commons March 24th

Metro.co.uk The stigma of Long Covid: Why people don't believe it's real quote: Unfortunately, however, more knowledge of the syndrome may not mean wider support for sufferers. So-called contested illnesses, of which there is scant biological understanding among the medical community – like...

I remember dr. Lucinda Bateman said in a lecture that she asks her patients how many hours a day they have their feet on the ground.

A journal about research policy and higher education, Forskningspolitikk, had an article yesterday about the importance of research ethics. Senior doctor and leader of the National Committee for Medical and Health Research Ethics are among those interviewed. She mentions the LP study...

The Norwegian ME Association has sent a complaint over the ethical approval of this study. Others have too. The Regional Committees for Medical and Health Research Ethics who twice has approved the study will process the complaints on 23 March. If they don't uphold the complaints, they'll...

I don't think this has been shared before? Haven't listened to it myself yet ScienceFriday What We're Learning About Long COVID Symptoms And Their Causes quote: There’s still a lot that we don’t understand about the underlying causes of these symptoms. No one knows why some people develop long...

I thought dr. Avindra Nath talked about that and that NIH was going to do this? Following lots of Covid-19 patients over time and investigating differences in people who go back to normal compared with those who don't. But I don't know of any concrete research projects.

BBC Inside Health revisits 3 long Covid patients that they interviewed last year to see how they're doing today. None have recovered. Dr. David Strain is also joining and talks about long Covid and ME. Listening to it now. Very sad to hear that the three long Covid patients are still...

Spotted the paper in a tweet by professor Kunst who comments: One of the largest population-based studies from Germany shows a high prevalence of #LongCovid also among younger adults with a history of mild acute infection. Considerably impaired general health and work capacity. Note: Pre-print...

Prevalence, determinants, and impact on general health and working capacity of post-acute sequelae of COVID-19 six to 12 month after infection: a population-based retrospective cohort study from southern Germany Peter, Kern et al https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.03.14.22272316v1...

MIT Sloan Management Review How Managers Can Support Employees With Long Covid by Fiona Lowenstein quote: Employers can start by learning about post-exertional symptom exacerbation, or post-exertional malaise (PEM), a common symptom of long COVID and related chronic illnesses. People with PEM...

Yes, I just read that. Chilling.

It's like long Covid just doesn't exist here. During the news yesterday there was a segment about a lot of children suddenly being absent from school after the pandemic. The explanation from experts was school refusal. The explanation for the school refusal was psychological problems due to...

I haven't read the study, but the news site Forskning.no had an article about it today including an interview with two of the Norwegian researchers (one who works at the Norwegian Institute for Public Health). In the news article there are so many speculations from two of the researchers that I...

The Lancet: Acute COVID-19 severity and mental health morbidity trajectories in patient populations of six nations: an observational study Magnúsdóttir et al Summary Background Long-term mental and physical health consequences of COVID-19 (long COVID) are a persistent public health concern...

It's based on their own numbers. Google translated section from the article (Sintef and Fafo are the research organisations behind the study): - Every year, an average of 1852 people are diagnosed with postviral fatigue syndrome in Norway, or ME / CFS, according to completely new calculations...

yes, the newspaper's origin was hard core communist, but today it's a general "leftish" newspaper, like the Guardian. In fact, George Monbiot used to be a regular writer for them. ETA: Or at least they regularly translated and published articles from Monbiot ETA: ... but when it comes to the...

The newspaper Klassekampen had a great interview today with two of the researchers from this project. Summary in a thread here.

New article today. This time an interview with two sociologists and researchers, Line Melby and Anne Kielland, from an ongoing research project about the health care service and ME. They say that in average 1 852 people are diagnosed with ME in Norway annually. 70% deteriorate some or a lot...