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    Understanding Chronic Fatigue Syndrome – Workshop with Dr Bruno Silva [North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust]

    Anyone know who the bald-headed, possibly South African(?) psychologist is at 31:30? Says he was part of some group involved with the 2007 NICE guideline.
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    Understanding Chronic Fatigue Syndrome – Workshop with Dr Bruno Silva [North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust]

    I'm not sure if it's exactly this part, but someone in the audience talks about how people with 'CFS' have [something] personalities. I can't hear what he says. Did you catch it?
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    Understanding Chronic Fatigue Syndrome – Workshop with Dr Bruno Silva [North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust]

    7th National Neuropsychiatry Conference "Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) has long been recognised, and many different names and diagnostic criteria have been used to describe it. It remains an illness of uncertain cause. While fatigue is a very common presenting complaint in many settings...
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    Any glass water bottle recommendations?

    Does anyone have a glass water bottle that they use to keep fluids up during the day? I want to get rid of my plastic Sistema one. Would prefer one with a flip lid, and also perhaps level markers on the side. Lots on Amazon, but you never quite know what you're buying on there. TIA.
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    Exeter firm excited over long Covid test success [BBC News]

    Famously, no one has ever done that before.
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    Exeter firm excited over long Covid test success [BBC News]

    There's nothing in the article to suggest the test can discriminate LC from healthy controls, because everyone who has had SARS-Cov-2 will have antibodies, right? I'm not quite sure what they are trying to do.
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    Exeter firm excited over long Covid test success [BBC News]

    "Attomarker said of those tested 60% showed a poor quantity and quality of antibodies in response to the Covid variant encountered, which can be treated via immunotherapies and vaccines. "There was a hyper immune response to the infection for 15% of those tested, which means their bodies...
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    Exeter firm excited over long Covid test success [BBC News]

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g7722wxj4o [Excerpt] An Exeter-based research firm has developed what it believes is a "world first" breakthrough test to help confirm the existence of long Covid in some patients. Attomarker, which specialises in health diagnostic technologies, said it...
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    Persistent symptoms and clinical findings in adults with post-acute sequelae of COVID-19/post-COVID-19 syndrome in the second year....[], 2025, Peter

    Abstract Background Self-reported health problems following severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection are common and often include relatively non-specific complaints such as fatigue, exertional dyspnoea, concentration or memory disturbance and sleep problems. The...
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    NHS England - E-learning Modules on ME/CFS

    I don't think FND overlaps with ME/CFS to a degree that warrants the former's inclusion in this document, and I think it's a mistake to put it in there. Aside from PEM, there's a distinct immunological component to ME/CFS — the source of 'malaise', sore throats, tender lymph nodes, etc. This...
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    NHS England - E-learning Modules on ME/CFS

    Is it still in there? Does anyone have a downloadable copy of the course?
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    Review Effectiveness of pharmacological therapies for fibromyalgia syndrome in adults: an overview of Cochrane Reviews, Moore et al., 2024

    Relief in just 1 in 10 patients seems staggeringly low, but the tone of the paper doesn't seem to convey this.
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    Review Effectiveness of pharmacological therapies for fibromyalgia syndrome in adults: an overview of Cochrane Reviews, Moore et al., 2024

    Abstract Objectives To summarize and evaluate Cochrane reviews of pharmacological therapies for adults with fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) pain. Methods Systematic search of Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews to May 2024. Generic quality assessment used AMSTAR-2 criteria, validity checks of...
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    Incidence and Prevalence of Post-COVID-19 Myalgic Encephalomyelitis: A Report from the Observational RECOVER-Adult Study, 2024, Vernon +

    This seems to suggest that ~20% of the RECOVER cohort had PEM but did not meet ME/CFS criteria. And that ~11% of the cohort have ME/CFS owing to COVID-19, yet don't have long covid...?
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    Global Prevalence of Long COVID, its Subtypes and Risk factors: An Updated Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis, 2025, Hou et al.

    I don't understand how this paper has defined long covid. "Our inclusion criteria are as follows: (1) human study population with confirmed COVID-19 diagnosis through polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test, antibody test, or a clinical diagnosis; (2) index date of first test/diagnosis, date of...
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    Global Prevalence of Long COVID, its Subtypes and Risk factors: An Updated Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis, 2025, Hou et al.

    Abstract Importance Updated knowledge regarding the global prevalence of long COVID (or post-COVID-19 condition), its subtypes, risk factors, and variations across different follow-up durations and geographical regions is necessary for informed public health recommendations and healthcare...
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