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    Validation of the fatigue severity scale in a Swiss cohort, 2008, Valko et al

    Thanks Updated.
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    The experiences of adolescents diagnosed with functional gastrointestinal disorders: An interpretative phenomenological analysis, 2021, Woodham et al

    "It is considered"... There's no proof of it, but why just shut up when you're so convinced that you're right.
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    The Times: My Mother, Munchausen’s and Me by Helen Naylor review — the tyrant in the sick bed

    Oh yes, tell me about that.
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    UK NICE 2021 ME/CFS Guideline, published 29th October - post-publication discussion

    Twited by Sharpe
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    Functional neurological disorder and somatic symptom disorder in Parkinson's disease, 2021, Onofrj et al

    Such a nonsense. Don't know where to start...
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    BPS attempts at psychologizing Long Covid

    Attitudes to long Covid are straight out of the ME playbook – history must not be allowed to repeat itself With @Brian Hughes ' insight. https://inews.co.uk/opinion/long-covid-attitudes-me-playbook-history-repeat-itself-1187999
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    NICE ME/CFS guideline - draft published for consultation - 10th November 2020

    Posts discussing Alistair Miller and sonja chowdhery talk on Radio 4 have been moved to this thread.
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    USA: Centers for Disease Control (CDC) - Post Covid Conditions: Interim Guidance, June 2021, updated June 2024

    CDC guidelines Updated June 14, 2021 Evaluating and Caring for Patients with Post-COVID Conditions: Interim Guidance Management https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/clinical-care/post-covid-index.html
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    Revising a diagnosis of functional neurological disorder—a case report, 2020, Berry and Weithoff

    How cool is this "degree of functional overlay", misdiagnosis can never happen and doctors are always right.
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    Aluminium based adjuvants and a disease hypothesis by Gherardi

    Excellent summary!
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    Central Sensitization in Neurological, Psychiatric, and Pain Disorders: A Multicenter Case-Controlled Study, Suzuki et al, 2021

    The difference is that no reliable scientist says that we know the physiopathology of ME, whereas this is the assumption for Central Sensitization.
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    Aluminium based adjuvants and a disease hypothesis by Gherardi

    The first study has no control group. The second one is a study on mouse. So these studies are far from proving anything.
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    CONservative TReatment of Appendicitis in Children: a randomised controlled feasibility Trial (CONTRACT) , Hall, Crawley et al, 2021

    Is she at least leaving the CFS field? (Still enjoying acronyms, though...)
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    Psychological well-being and illness perceptions in patients with hypopituitarism, Knoop et al, 2021

    This is so judgemental, it shouldn't be allowed in a questionnaire.
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    A general thread on the PACE trial!

    Trial By Error: Happy Tenth Anniversary, PACE Trial! by @dave30th https://www.virology.ws/2021/02/18/trial-by-error-happy-tenth-anniversary-pace-trial/
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    News from Scotland

    Scottish Government Issue Caution for Graded Exercise Therapy in ME/CFS & Post/Long-Covid Thread there.
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    Application and validation of the bodily distress syndrome checklist in a psychosomatic outpatient sample, Wertenbruche-Rocke et al, 2021

    "Why would we use a decent control group with patients suffering from a known disease with comparable symptoms and take the risk to demonstrate that our concept is BS?"
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    France: Guidelines for Post-Covid Syndrome, 2021, Haute Autorité de la Santé

    Just have a look at their bibliography... https://www.has-sante.fr/upload/docs/application/pdf/2021-02/fiche_-_troubles_somatiques_fonctionnels.pdf
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    France: Guidelines for Post-Covid Syndrome, 2021, Haute Autorité de la Santé

    I find it very worrying. The mere fact that they encourage diagnosing a somatic syndrome when there is no organic cause (and nothing else) is opening the door for psychologising patients. In this annex, they say that it is diagnosable in the absence of obvious organic cause, that it is not...
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    News from France

    The official guidelines for post-covid syndrome have been posted by the Haute Autorité de la Santé. When there are symptoms without clear organic explanation, doctors should diagnose the patient as having a "functional disorder", caused by personality or trauma. :cry...
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