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WSJ | Archived The Welfare State Is Crushing Britain The soaring number of people on disability and sickness benefits is blowing up the country’s welfare bill and imperiling its long-term financial stability By Max Colchester and David Luhnow Oct. 11, 2026 at 9:00 pm ET 3200-word article.

https://www.brainhealth.com/voices/celebrity-profiles/novelist-mark-haddon-brain-fog/ 2100-word article. Mentions PEM, contains advice to pace and to listen to your own body. How novelist Mark Haddon found his way through brain fog After heart surgery and then long COVID clouded the mind that...

https://www.apa.org/monitor/2026/10/harms-medical-gaslighting 2500-word article. COVER STORY The hidden harms of medical gaslighting Researchers are leading efforts to better support patients with difficult-to-diagnose conditions By Heather Stringer Date created: October 1, 2026 Key...

https://drericlevi.pages.dev/the-darker-side-of-being-a-doctor/ 1700-word article, currently being discussed on Hacker News. The darker side of being a doctor I’m a surgeon. I’d like to think that I’m resilient and well adjusted, having gone through medical school and rigorous surgical...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/future/article/20260917-confusion-in-the-immune-system-how-allergies-can-develop-later-in-life 1400-word article. Excerpt: The Covid 'on switch' Some people are born with a genetic predisposition to allergy. But "it's not all genetics," says Ruchi Gupta, director of...

https://pollypauthor.substack.com/p/the-darvo-trend 1700-word article. The DARVO Trend A Secret Weapon against the Sick POLLY PATTERSON SEP 20, 2026

https://www.publicsource.org/pots-long-covid-navigating-invisible-illnesses/ 1800-word article. I look fine, but dealing with chronic illness is my full-time job My illnesses don’t show up on lab tests, nor do they affect my appearance. Some people think this makes them less real, but a few...

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/health/article/pots-long-covid-autoimmune 1400-word article. Why Do POTS and Long Covid Look So Much Like Autoimmune Disorders? Researchers are studying the curious connection between autoimmune diseases and conditions like POTS and long COVID—in the hopes...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/sep/07/disabled-person-school-discrimination-benefits I had an amazing experience as a disabled person at school in the 70s. Since then, discrimination has got far worse Mik Scarlet Mon 7 Sep 2026 … Through the course of my childhood ideas...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/09/05/disability-became-cool/ Archived Link 3400-word article How having a disability became cool Young women, nicknamed ‘sickfluencers’, are turning chronic illness into a lifestyle trend and entrenching a culture of economic inactivity Poppy Coburn...

https://www.thecut.com/article/pans-pandas-neuropsychiatric-mental-illness-brain-swedo.html Long article in thecut.com from a mother with a child with PANS. The article is paywalled, here‘s the beginning of it: When a Sore Throat Attacks the Brain My child caught a cold and lost her ability to...

https://worksinprogress.co/issue/future-of-medicine/ Every disease is a policy failure Few people know how much medicine has progressed in their lifetimes. Fewer know how much faster it could be progressing. 11th August 2026 By Saloni Dattani Massive 4500-word article. About the...

Watch this video earlier of a guy talking about his experience of long Covid. It's quite emotional in places. It also makes clear that he's being encouraged to do low-level exercise by an NHS clinic, and he's trying to do it because he so much wants to get better. I think it's really effective...

Long article Clare Sansom is a science writer based in Cambridge, UK https://www.chemistryworld.com/features/battling-long-covid-with-drugs/4018238.article

French research centre behind controversial Covid paper found to have used questionable ethics processes | Coronavirus | The Guardian

See also News from Scotland _________________ Moved from the News from the MEA thread. not news from MEA as such; but anyone know about this person https://www.wandabelisle.com/ according to her website " FEATURED on

BySophie Palmer - May 18, 2023 https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/how-long-before-the-misery-of-me-is-taken-seriously/

Trial By Error: Shaky Evidence for Signs of Functional Neurological Disorders http://www.virology.ws/2019/12/30/trial-by-error-shaky-evidence-for-signs-of-functional-neurological-disorders/ 30 December 2019 By David Tuller, DrPH One of my goals next year is to write more about so-called...

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- Only a couple dozen doctors specialize in chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). Now their knowledge could be crucial to treating millions more patients. https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2022/09/mecfs-chronic-fatigue-syndrome-doctors-long-covid/671518/