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Trial By Error: Calls for Retraction of the LP Study Last week, when I sent Dr Fiona Godlee an open letter about the untenable decision by Archives of Disease in Childhood to republish the originally reported findings from the Lighnting Process trial, I cc’d many of the 55 signatories. Now...

I've only heard bits and pieces of the story about Ampligen. Nice to read such an account in one article.

David Tuller: Trial By Error: Lead Author of Cochrane's New Bias Guideline is LP Study Co-Author Why did Professor Sterne sign off on the Lightning Process trial paper, in which critical information about retrospective registration and outcome-swapping were withheld from the public version of...

I'm so sorry to hear this. :( How are patients and carers organised in Germany?

Excellent! And what an impressive list of 55 signatures!

Cardiopulmonary Physical Therapy Journal Reproducibility of Measurements Obtained During Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing in Individuals With Fatiguing Health Conditions - Benjamin Larson, Todd Davenport, Staci Stevens, Jared Stevens, Mark Van Ness, Christopher Snell Purpose: Measurements...

The New York Times: Why Doctors Still Offer Treatments That May Not Help by Austin Frakt Even when we learn something doesn’t make us better, it’s hard to get the system to stop doing it. It takes years or even decades to reverse medical convention. Some practitioners cling to weak evidence of...

I recognise one of the authors, prof. and neurologist Ole-Bjørn Tysnes from the CFS/ME literature. He has co authored the article Investigation of suspected chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalopathy which showed that many patients referred to the neurological department at Haukeland...

Article about the study in ScienceDaily from August 9th. Biomarkers link fatigue in cancer, Parkinson's The researchers hope the discovery will allow health care providers to target specific treatments that can lower the levels of the inflammatory biomarkers and in turn improve the quality of...

Inflammation and fatigue in early, untreated Parkinson's Disease Abstract Objectives Parkinson's disease (PD)‐related fatigue is a significant clinical problem, and the pathological processes that cause fatigue remain unknown. The aim of the present study was to explore the possible association...

ipolitics: Team Trudeau front benchers fan out to promote federal support for health research, women entrepreneurs and Yukon conservation efforts After spending the last few days making the rounds on her Atlantic Canadian home turf, Health Minister Ginette Petitpas Taylor heads to the...

Rasmus Handest, board member of the Danish Psychiatrist Association (Dansk Psykiatrisk Selskab) has written a letter-to-the-editor to Altinget, a newspaper covering political debates and the Danish Parliament where he criticises the Danish minister of Health for following the Parliament's...

Yesterday Yle, the national public broadcasting company, had a big article about ME on their front page. There was also a segment on TV same evening. Here's a summary of the article. (It's based on google translation and therefore contains a few guesses): The article tells the story about the...

Seems there were two more articles today, four in total En halv million i juridiske omkostninger google translation: half a million in legal costs The criticism from Gerdes in his various statements about HPV, job centers and psychiatry was not always well received. Some of the doctors he has...

The local Danish newspaper Fredericia Avisen has two articles today about the court case concerning Stig Gerdes' licence to practice as doctor. He lost it when he became Karina Hansen's doctor after she had returned to her family because he reduced the medications she'd been put on. Karina...

The Danish newspaper for medical news - Dagens Medicin - writes today that Denmark's new minister of health, Magnus Heunicke, will follow the Parliament's decision on defining ME as a physiological illness - not psychological. Chairman for the Danish Medical Association, Andreas Rudkjøbing is...