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    Identification of a brainstem locus that inhibits tumour necrosis factor, 2020, Kressel et al

    From Twitter Paper from earlier this year
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    Post-Exertional Malaise - a discussion including defining and measuring PEM

    Some do but are limited by the standard vocabulary used. Some can describe things very well but are not listened to, or their descriptions not drilled down into for appropriate symptom management. Dizziness, breathlessness and gastric issues have only recently been accepted as signs of...
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    NICE ME/CFS guideline - draft published for consultation - 10th November 2020

    Valerie Eliot Smith blog on draft https://valerieeliotsmith.com/2020/11/19/ice-cream-hypothermia-revisited-a-chilling-nice-consultation-process/?fbclid=IwAR2_KSQC48mInYTjuXT7-isNWf38t8DDpSMbLYL8DOltfxBgQP_pIjXdlYU
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    Post-Exertional Malaise - a discussion including defining and measuring PEM

    Young pwME adopt the language from medical interventions and online sources. The younger the more likely to assimilate given language into developing verbal and experiential constructs. Your world view is framed by interaction and experience. You would not recognise ME from descriptions on...
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    Somatic symptom and related disorders in a tertiary paediatric hospital: prevalence, reach and complexity, 2020, Wiggins et al

    What % are female ? Sounds like classic label attaching when cause is not known and medics don't know what else to do.
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    Activation of Functional Brain Networks in Children With Psychogenic Non-epileptic Seizures, 2020, Kozlowska et al

    Lower HRV has been postulated as a " heads up" for illness generally ( viz the wearables guru who was alerted to Lyme disease during a flight when HRV was altered enabling this to be caught early and treated) .If there are noted changes in network metrics, and autonomic status then perhaps there...
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    Green Light therapy for pain, preliminary (Nov. 2020) results reducing pain

    Hmmm. Do we know how colour temperature affects human cells? We know a bit about blue light, and use of blue glasses , but anything else? Coloured LEDs are transforming agriculture, enabling modulation of yield, ( in cannabis growing its used re strength of THC), rate of senescence , growth...
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    Sick of the Sick Role: Narratives of What “Recovery” Means to People With CFS/ME, 2020, White et al

    So given the general debunking of CBT for many uses it looks like a reinvention heading towards ACT to maintain market share
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    UK: Action for ME: Job vacancies

    That's true, however even reducing the time needed in an office to on e a week / once a fortnight etc may offer more possibilities. I think COVID19 has accomplished in less than a year the digital working revolution Google and Microsoft etc have been trying to promote for years. It is however...
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    UK: Action for ME: Job vacancies

    Does " based at " have specific relevance anymore ? If we embrace tech a bit more this could have far wider applicability and opportunities perhaps for someone with mild ME. The only thing I have had to go to our office for since March is to pick up large format drawings and specialist survey...
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    Fluvoxamine vs Placebo and Clinical Deterioration in Outpatients With Symptomatic COVID-19 A Randomized Clinical Trial. Lenze et al. JAMA (2020)

    How does the dosage compare to doses for depressive conditions? ETA ages ? Were any side effects observed at particular points in menstrual cycles? Did any participants gave gut issues ? Estrogen and seratonin are closely linked, and some gut bacteria can " repackage" compounds including...
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    BACME: Position Paper on the management of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/ Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS), Oct 2020

    From the quick response from SMC too, I would suspect a briefing prior to guidelines release
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    NICE ME/CFS guideline - draft published for consultation - 10th November 2020

    there will be a lot of decent GPs, OTs and physios now at a complete loss. NICE has always been the default and this is not a small change. I don't know if there will be any "penny drop" moments, but many professionals may need some positive support as well as education - I just hope for GPs it...
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    NICE ME/CFS guideline - draft published for consultation - 10th November 2020

    I suspect MOD are interested re GWI - it is still a big issue here
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