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Abstract Some fibromyalgia (FM) patients engage in rumination (i.e. a chain of repetitive, passive and relatively uncontrollable thoughts focused on negative content) to cope with the pain and discomfort of daily activities. The partial model of rumination in chronic pain suggests that...

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Link to Simon M's blog about the research: Remarkable researchers hunting for ‘something in the blood’ of people with ME "In this research we are looking at microclots in the plasma of ME/CFS patients and healthy controls and we will conduct experiments to look at the effect of patient serum...

"The Opportunity: The post holder will be responsible for undertaking statistical analysis of genetic data, using and developing case-control genome-wide association study (GWAS) designs. The purpose of this is to delineate the contribution of genetic variants to Myalgic...

Discussing content from Calabrese previously: Biologic and Nonbiologic Interventions for Fatigue in Rheumatoid Arthritis (2019). Calabrese. Long COVID: defining the role of rheumatology in care and research (2022) Calabrese et Calabrese Rheumatology and Long COVID: lessons from the study of...

Appears to be a response to Long COVID: a new word for naming fibromyalgia?, 2023, Xavier Mariette

Abstract Long COVID is a diagnostic label currently given to those suffering from a poorly understood state of incomplete recovery or who have development of a myriad of medically unexplained symptoms occurring in the wake of infection with SARS CoV-2 that is both poorly understood and...

Full title: Clinical outcomes, medical costs, and medication usage patterns of different somatic symptom disorders and functional somatic syndromes: a population-based study in Taiwan Background Somatic symptom disorders (SSD) and functional somatic syndromes (FSS) are often regarded as similar...

Trial By Error: Column in Time Magazine Calls for Halt to Biomedical Long Covid Research "Time magazine recently published an opinion piece that calls for an end to biomedical research for long Covid—based, it seems, on what the authors view as the ME/CFS precedent. The title: “How to End the...

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Perhaps in America, I'm not so sure elsewhere.

Well, in effect they are doing that, but clearly the magic happens when a 'very clever person clearly worth their funding' assigns numbers to particular answers, because they then can declare that they can 'accurately' measure the level of distress to each person.

"We need to raise $350,000 for our Rapamycin pilot trial! We're not funding drug costs, but we're testing biomarkers 4 times per enrollee. And autophagy markers make this study unique! On #GivingTuesday put your donation on #ME treatment trials!"

All your post says is Oxford - Karl is in Oxford.

Karl Morten? Caroline Struthers?

Published papers thread for w/c 13th November. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sci4me/posts/pfbid02zXBuAt3UNjTXcEUpeF9KU2SP4yoD1DQgJwMqvRyb4351STASNKkFu8D2URrbwXs1l Mastodon: https://med-mastodon.com/@s4me/111442382593068196

Here I am talking about payments to people who, for example, fill in a questionnaire, donate a sample or in any other way participate in a research study. The poll is there if you want to provide a quick for, against or "it depends" answer - if you do answer "it depends" in particular I'd be...