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https://www.verywellhealth.com/managing-post-exertional-malaise-in-chronic-fatigue-716027

Author: Litsa Dremousis, who has written similar articles for the Washington Post before, from the perspective of a pwME. "Congress has allocated $1.15 billion to the National Institutes of Health for long covid research, and ME advocacy groups such as M.E. Action Network are lobbying NIH to...

https://www.publichealth.columbia.edu/public-health-now/news/long-covid-really-chronic-fatigue-syndrome-another-name

Author: Richard Meade Research Fellow in Economics, and in Social Sciences & Public Policy, Auckland University of Technology He also used to suffer from ME/CFS and compares the two in the article as well. "The social costs of long COVID should not be underestimated. For example, suppose an...

Taking another swing at medically unexplained symptoms… Exerpt: Link to the Psychology Today article here

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/24/technology/joseph-mercola-coronavirus-misinformation-online.html?action=click&module=Spotlight&pgtype=Homepage The Most Influential Spreader of Coronavirus Misinformation Online Researchers and regulators say Joseph Mercola, an osteopathic physician, creates...

https://www.miragenews.com/new-clinical-trial-aims-to-improve-diagnosis-597717/

https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/importance-listening-treating-invisible-illness-and-long-haul-covid-19/2021-07

Link to article in today's Guardian. A topic that resembles aircraft circling yet never landing . https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jun/24/covid-vulnerable-life-death-toll-old-disabled

full article here: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jun/21/long-covid-recovery-coronavirus eta: note: there appears to be a 'bastardized' version of this article, presumably created by bots, circulating. (the one I've spotted is from NZ).

This is the kind of issue that makes physicians roll their eyes, which is exactly why it is important to discuss as it can't be fixed from the outside. Technically with the backdrop of Long Covid but it's a general discussion...

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/28/opinion/alzheimer-treatment-FDA-aducanumab.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage They’ve spent billions on Alzheimer’s and sounds like they still have nothing. Worth reading even though it’s not about MECFS.

Medscape: Pandemic Boosts Care for Serious Illnesses at Home Yet another silver-lining of COVID for those of use with ME/CFS? I already get primary care in my own home (including blood draws) and have even been able to get an ultrasound in my bedroom. But to be able to avoid hospital stays in...

https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/health/me-cfs-personal-story-20562798 Another local article with Dr Mark Harper, chair of the Cambridge ME support group. He seems to be doing a great job at reaching out. The article is quite long and first focuses on his own personal story with ME/CFS...

full article here https://uk.sports.yahoo.com/news/mysterious-condition-leaving-women-home-043200000.html

Article looking at effect of exercise on older females with RA. Not much of a study, but interesting Why Exercise Can Be So Draining for People With Rheumatoid Arthritis - The New York Times (nytimes.com)

The Guardian: Long Covid is very far from 'all in the mind' - but psychology can still help us treat it by Carmine M Pariante - Carmine M Pariante is professor of biological psychiatry at King’s College London and editor of the blog platform Inspire the Mind Quote: This point is particularly...

Column (paywalled) by James Marriott in The Times. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/lets-end-the-stigma-of-psychosomatic-illness-whfdlwhph Anyone know whether that 'a third of outpatients...' is right? Or where it's from? @dave30th perhaps? I think the article shows what we're up against...

"Medicine is a practice built on trust—from patients and from society in general—and this is especially true for psychiatry, in which trust has been forfeited in the past. Transparency is the foundation stone of trust. In research, this can be manifest at various stages. Clinical trials and...

Hospital, BBC 1, 19 March 2020 FND not ME On now, this is covering FND