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Feeling the fear of many: orienting affects in Swedish austerity politics https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/sociology/articles/10.3389/fsoc.2025.1411526/full "This article investigates the emotional consequences of austerity politics targeting services and support for disabled citizens in...

Summary available in Swedish on ALS-fonden's website: Så kan du känna igen tveksamma behandlingsmetoder https://alsfonden.se/aktuellt/varning-alternativa-behandlingsmetoder Many thanks to @MittEremltage for highlighting this valuable paper on her blog :thumbsup: ALS-fonden varnar för...

The ten red flags described in the paper: Large out of pocket cost Advertised as effective for multiple incurable conditions with different causes Lack of safety and scientific oversight Absent or limited informed consent process Lack of an evidenced mechanism by which the intervention might...

ALSUntangled 56: “ten red flags”-things to be wary of in alternative or off-label products "Patients and families affected by disabling, life-shortening diseases such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) often turn to the Internet for answers (Citation1). There they can find a large number of...

Petition for better healthcare for people with POTS and other kinds of dysautonomia in Sweden. Please share widely! Dysautonomi Sverige, the network behind this petition, is doing great work, having meetings with politicians and other people in power among other things, so this is not "just a...

The problematic aspects of the diagnostics at Bragée ME Center have been discussed on this forum before, and also the various subgroups that Bragée ME Center made up very early on and added onto the ICD code in the patients' medical records. Just quickly mentioning it here, because a lot of...

"An article on using prednisone for Gulf War Illness was recently retracted. The article may be found at the below links. - Jarred Younger"

18 minutes long, in Swedish. Uploaded today by RME (the Swedish ME Association). '"Why the psychological unit?" Interview with Björn Bragée.' "Varför psykologiska enheten?" Intervju med Björn Bragee.

Auto-translate, unedited: "Health administration responds to criticism from the National Association of ME Patients Here is the health care administration's response to the criticism from the National Association for ME Patients. The answers are coordinated with Åsa Sandgren Åkerman, head of...

Hälso- och sjukvårdsförvaltningen svarar på kritiken från Riksförbundet för ME-patienter https://www.tv4.se/artikel/6pFZJKL3AQ8JA3EypRFLQ9/haelso-och-sjukvardsfoervaltningen-svarar-pa-kritiken-fran-riksfoerbundet

Nyhetsmorgon 12 May https://www.tv4play.se/korthet/bb880cb6e4a40240ff0c/vanlig-influensa-kan-bli-me?panelId=3CPrjIL8JQFiNDn83LOlYQ

"055 - Focused ultrasound reduces chronic pain You can get the open-access paper at: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39073370/ Jarred Younger"

Podcast episode by SFAM about functional disorders, in Swedish. Carl Sjöström om funktionella tillstånd https://share.transistor.fm/s/a6793d47 ("SFAM, the Swedish Association of General Practice, is the professional and scientific college of general practitioners (family physicians) in...

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"A scan that measures your brain fuel A technique called 31P magnetic resonance spectroscopy allows us to measure how much critical adenosine triphosphate (ATP) you have in your brain. This scan may show us why people with ME/CFS have limited resources for sustained physical or mental...

052 - Why most people are excluded from clinical trials

Long article in a big newspaper (includes a tiny bit about the research). Expert: Total livsförändring behövs för att bryta utmattning https://www.sydsvenskan.se/2025-04-02/expert-total-livsforandring-behovs-for-att-bryta-utmattning/

Another opinion piece in a very large newspaper. ”Avskaffad diagnos röjer ett haveri” https://www.svd.se/a/kwzzPk/haveriutredning-behovs-nar-diagnosen-utmattningssyndrom-nu-avskaffas-skriver-isac-riddarsparre

"Sorry for being gone for so long! Here are some new analyses from my lab that show elevated lactate in the myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) brain. I believe these results show that ME/CFS involves brain inflammation. You can find the article mentioned in the video...

Yes, a psychiatric diagnosis (that includes physical symptoms). I've never gotten the impression that they have tried to frame ED as a "functional" disorder. ED used to be called "utmattningsdepression" (literally "exhaustion depression") until 2003. Thank you so much @Jonathan Edwards, for...