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  1. Snow Leopard

    (Not a recommendation) Alastair Miller on CFS

    There isn't a division between psych vs nonpsych. People like Lenny Jason for example are well respected. The problem is a key loss of trust between patients and certain doctors and researchers. The loss of trust is due to decades of unwillingness of those people to listen to patient experience...
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    The Courier Mail: Australian scientists prove CFS is real and have discovered a test for it

    This is a good point and brings up the idea of legacy of an old man - it is not merely about any breakthroughs by Davis, but about all the people he can encourage to enter into the field, whether on his team or not.
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    The Courier Mail: Australian scientists prove CFS is real and have discovered a test for it

    It means they don't have meaningful results yet. It's all hype at this point.
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    Greater specificity of activity memories in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (2017) Maryanne Martin

    Tails we win, heads you lose. You can't have two opposite hypotheses, you choose the one that makes the most sense. Everything else is HARKing...
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    Documents from the SMILE trial

    Some otherwise courageous people have the blind spot of not being willing to damage the careers of their friends. Ben Goldacre is one of those people. As for the rest, it makes no sense to 'morph' a feasibility study into a 'full' study. The study remains a feasibility study even if it is...
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    Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS/ME) symptom-based phenotypes & 1-year treatment outcomes in two clinical cohorts of adult patients.., 2017, Collin et al

    Exactly.. That said, it looks like this article was written by the first three authors with less input from Crawley/Knoop...
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    Autonomic Nervous System Functioning Related to Nocturnal Sleep in Patients With CFS Compared to Tired Controls., 2017, Orjatsalo et al

    Yes, the question is whether it predicts or lags. I think this sleep finding may be associated with the 'wired' feeling you mention though.
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    Autonomic Nervous System Functioning Related to Nocturnal Sleep in Patients With CFS Compared to Tired Controls., 2017, Orjatsalo et al

    This is interesting, but I wonder if it is just an artefact of being a pilot study with recruitment biases, or whether it is a non-specific marker of fatigue.
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    Blog: Clark Ellis, "Which heart rate monitor for ME/CFS?"

    Specific metals likely give you hives. Nickel is a common culprit. Or brass (copper/zinc alloy). That said, my Garmin (hand me down) heart rate monitor does not use metal on the chest strap.
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    CDC gets list of forbidden words

    Yes. To clarify my position: Animals can be useful for primary research (not that I like it), but "Animal models" of disease are often too far from the human diseases that the results don't translate. A lot of the animal models of autoimmune disease are like this. I mean genetically engineering...
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    Advocate for Disabled Workers; CNN Hero of the Year

    This is the crux. Unless it affects you personally, very few people care about these sorts of problems. I wonder if there is some sort of guilt-relief (maybe that could be worded better), eg we celebrate people like this so we don't have to care and do the hard work ourselves?
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    CDC gets list of forbidden words

    Excluding women from trials or not testing different dosages (where relevant) in women vs men are certainly valid problems. Historically there have been such biases even if this has changed/is changing now (according to the claims made by Jonathan). But who really cares about lack of females in...
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    Association between C-reactive protein and chronic fatigue syndrome: a meta-analysis, 2017, Wang et al

    The problem with non-specific tests is findings with poor specificity...
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    Clare Gerada: influence on UK medical practice and ME/CFS management

    There is a big problem when medical systems (funding, teaching etc) do not consider human nature as central to their practise. A system that expects doctors to provide perfect advice and patients to always follow that advice is pure fantasy.
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    Condition among athletes with similarities to ME?

    There is a researcher here who I have spoken to who has studied both (and hasn't found anything interesting in common). They are not the same thing of course, but commonalities might be interesting.
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    Transforming growth factor beta (TGF-β) in adolescent chronic fatigue syndrome (2017) Wyller et al.

    Didn't this group disprove the "sustained arousal" hypothesis with several of their studies including a drug trial. Why are they still talking about it?
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    Investigation of mast cell toll-like receptor 3 in CFS/ME & Systemic Mastocytosis using novel application of autoMACS..., 2017, Balinas et al

    Listing seems recent, DOI doesn't work yet. I don't understand how TLR3 ties into the results they've reported.
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    Presentation on CDC research program from 1999 to CFSCC

    This is really long, is there anything specific you were referring to?
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