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    United Kingdom: News from Forward-ME Group

    Of course — my comment was not meant as a sweeping generalizaiton. I am explicitly talking about this in the context of PAG and similar groups where everyone seems to be pulling in the same direction, because that was my experience as a member of PAG.
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    United Kingdom: News from Forward-ME Group

    That must have gone live this weekend as it was still down a few days ago. It's definitely an improvement on the last effort but there's a lot of stuff missing and it still looks quite basic, like they've not got a budget to get a website professionally designed. Sorry, didn't get notified of...
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    Identifying post-exertional malaise subtypes: Differentiating physical and mental PEM manifestations, 2026, Tuzzolino et al

    This seems self-evident. I really don't know what the aim was here. There's a paywall for me.
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    EU Horizon funding - Prof. Simon Carding, €7.5 million

    I can't find anything about it — just a few other studies with the same name. I've been searching for info on EU Horizon projects that have been funded, but can't find much on that either.
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    United Kingdom: News from Forward-ME Group

    https://meassociation.org.uk/2026/02/forward-me-agm-and-guest-lecture-register-to-attend/ Upcoming AGM and guest lecture Date: Thursday 5th March 2026 Time: 14:15 – 14:45 (GMT) – Annual General Meeting 15:00 – 16:00 (GMT) Talk by Tahlia Ruschioni on the Bateman Horne Center Clinical Care...
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    BBC Radio 4: Inside Health:“Is the tide turning on ME research”? (28 minutes)

    There was a short section on DecodeME with Chris, but it was Prof. Stephen Holgate who was most featured. He did a good(ish) job, but I still don't think he quite 'gets it', and does not readily communicate the seriousness of the illness, although he did mention the 25% stat and that people are...
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    UK Government Delivery Plan for ME/CFS, published 22nd July 2025

    I am not aware that NICPM has reopened out-of-area referals. The notice on their website still reads:
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    Optimizing exercise testing and rehabilitation strategies for long COVID: a focus on post-exertional malaise, 2026, Fagan, Stein et al

    Eleanor Stein is somewhat adjacent to the mind–body and recovery grift stuff on YouTube, so I would treat this with caution.
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    Do Medications Actually Help in Patients with Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome?: A Qualitative Study, Uppal et al., 2026

    Yep, definitely a graduate project. The Raj group is probably one of the leading PoTS groups in the world so maybe we could have expected more....
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    Do Medications Actually Help in Patients with Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome?: A Qualitative Study, Uppal et al., 2026

    Abstract Background Postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS) is a chronic autonomic disorder associated with debilitating symptoms. No medications have been approved for treatment, and patients commonly use off-label medications to treat symptoms. The hemodynamic implications of certain...
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    2011 BMJ article: Researchers get £1.6m to look at scientific basis of chronic fatigue syndrome

    You can check the publications associated with each project by clicking 'Publications' on the corresponding project's UKRI page, e.g., https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=MR/J002720/1&pn=0&fetchSize=10&selectedSortableField=firstAuthorName&selectedSortOrder=ASC for the Ng study of fatigue. Note...
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    2011 BMJ article: Researchers get £1.6m to look at scientific basis of chronic fatigue syndrome

    https://faseb.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1096/fasebj.29.1_supplement.1055.34 + others listed on the UKRI project site (see note in the next post).
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    The Guardian: 'Long Covid is still here. I know – my life came to a stop because of it' -

    Garner's not going to be able to contain himself reading this
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    Still to open Australia: Double Blind 12 week Clinical Trial to investigate the effects of low dose naltrexone (LDN) in individuals with ME/CFS

    This is ambiguous to say the least. The Facebook post says nothing about long covid, but the poster says participants must be diagnosed with "ME/CFS to CCC/ICC and long covid."
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    Postural orthostatic tachycardia is not a useful diagnostic marker for chronic fatigue syndrome, Roerink et al. 2016

    This survey estimated 27%: https://meassociation.org.uk/2023/11/the-me-association-postural-orthostatic-tachycardia-syndrome-survey-results/
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    Postural orthostatic tachycardia is not a useful diagnostic marker for chronic fatigue syndrome, Roerink et al. 2016

    Ok, but that means you have to measure blood pressure, which it sounds like they didn't do for half the test. Active stand rather than TTT will likely explain the low POTS rates. I don't trust anyting from Knoop + co having looked into some of his work.
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