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When the American Psychiatric Association (APA) issued a news release, in December 2009, announcing an extension to the timeline for publication of DSM-5 from May 2012 to May 2013, I receive emails from a patient in Alaska convinced that the reason the APA were delaying publication of DSM-5 was...

I’ll Make It Simple June 5, 2019 by Jennie Spotila http://occupyme.net/2019/06/05/ill-make-it-simple/

In the earlier, July 13, 2017 article, it also says: "The operation was not available on the NHS."

Or is it available subject to approval of funding on a case by case basis?

https://www.itv.com/news/tyne-tees/2019-05-31/woman-with-rare-genetic-condition-suffers-huge-setback-after-life-changing-surgery/ ITV REPORT 31 May 2019 at 2:22pm Woman with rare genetic condition suffers huge setback after life-changing surgery ...Melanie had spent years confined to bed...

I don't need to.

You are strawmanning, Alvin. My concern is not about "ideas" nor am I suggesting suppression of "ideas". My concern is about the way in which this small number of surgeries is being presented to the public and how some people are responding to its presentation. Edited for clarity.

I am very discomforted by what is happening, here. Around 10 years ago, I recall a prominent, well respected U.S. patient advocate emailing me to persuade me that I owed it to my son to get him tested for XMRV. I had not bought into the hype around the test at the time and had many concerns...

Just dropping this here...

Four additional terms have very recently been added under Synonyms under ICD-11's Bodily distress disorder: https://icd.who.int/dev11/f/en#/http://id.who.int/icd/entity/767044268 The existing Synonyms terms are: somatoform disorders Somatization disorder Somatic symptom disorder The four...

As well as reaching out to APA Board members specifically around his concerns for the draft SSD criteria, in late 2012 Allen also met informally with Joel E Dimsdale (Chair, DSM-5 Somatic Symptom Disorders Working Group), to put before him suggestions for a redrafted criteria that if...

Well thank you, It's M.E. Linda, for your very kind words and bunches of flowers. I have had the advantage of not being an ME patient, myself, but a carer. I have a couple more posts to draft for my Dx Revision Watch site, next week, then I shall finally retire. WHO has said that it plans to...

Phew!

My bolding: I find the looseness of the wording of this statement troubling. Jen, you've said, "...for CCI and other conditions that can cause the symptoms of ME"? Can you please clarify what you mean by, "cause the symptoms of ME"? Can you be more specific about which other conditions you...

"Burn-out" has been included in ICD-10 in Chapter: XXI Factors influencing health status and contact with health services at Z73.0 since at least 2003.

Except it isn't: WHO issued a statement of correction yesterday: https://www.who.int/mental_health/evidence/burn-out/en/ Burn-out an "occupational phenomenon": International Classification of Diseases 28 MAY 2019 - Burn-out is included in the 11th Revision of the International...

The accounts that Tweet was replying to (or tagged in) are: @tweetingmole @OpenMedF @JanetDafoe @MEAssociation But it appears to be a stand alone Tweet into which four accounts have been tagged (ie, it does not appear to be in response to one of these accounts as part of an existing thread)...

Webcast of Sixth meeting of Committee B is now available: https://www.who.int/about/governance/world-health-assembly/seventy-second-world-health-assembly Select Tab for Committee B Select 25/05/2019 Sixth meeting of Committee B 09:00-14:00 Item 12.7 – Eleventh revision of the International...

Consideration of draft resolution for adoption of ICD-11: After more than 11 years in development and several extensions to the timeline, the World Health Assembly is today considering a draft resolution recommending adoption of ICD-11. If the resolution is approved (as it stands or with...

Note: Item 12.7 Eleventh revision of the International Classification of Diseases is now 3rd item on the Agenda for the meeting of Committee A on the morning of Saturday, 25 May. There are no meetings scheduled for Sunday 26. If there is insufficient time on Saturday to complete Item 12.7...