Carmine Pariante FRCPsych is a professor of biological psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry at King's College, London, and consultant...
Those of us with chronic illness are often forced to wage two wars at once. Not only must we cope with the immeasurable impact of our illness, but...
Consumer-Contested Evidence: Why the ME/CFS Exercise Dispute Matters So Much A biopsychosocial camp has contended since the 1990s that regardless...
Personally, I come down as a nay on the side of spoons. I can see where people might find this a useful help, but it does not help me, or I guess...
So, a few weeks into 2019, where do we think we are with M.E.? Are we making progress at last? Or are things very different from how they seem?...
The Qure study compares the efficacy of treatment with Doxycycline versus placebo and placebo versus Cognitive Behaviour Therapy using...
The science media centre has played an important role in stigmatising CFS patients, and anyone critical of PACE and related work, so it's always...
[IMG] You may wonder what that picture’s doing here and what that title ‘The Vale of Strange’ is about. It should all become clear as this post...
A few weeks ago I was preparing for a conversation on the Armchair Expert podcast with Dax Shepard, and I found myself getting in a debate. Not...
I've been sitting on this one for a while so it's amazing that I finally get to show it to you! My piece for Cause and Effect magazine. Amnah, the...
Thought I'd seen this posted on a different thread but I can't find it, so creating a new thread for it. I fell down the rabbit hole, like Alice,...
One message dominates NIH’s talk about ME/CFS research: submit more high quality grant applications. Funding would increase if there were more...
" ME patient/advocate Corina Duyn reflects on the challenges of having Disability Services in Waterford accept her as having a disability. I...
For some months now I’ve been involved in the Chronic Illness Inclusion Project (CIIP). If you have a chronic illness, of any kind, I can’t...
This is a guest post by Dr Rebecca Kirk, Executive Editor, Nature Partner Journals Every day, thousands of scientists around the world donate...
Blog by an author, who has ME, about finally writing about ME. One of the reasons for sharing is that I really like the quote below. Kay describes...
Blog by @Brian Hughes A quarter of a million Britons have been diagnosed with myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME), the condition also known as...
A blog about personal experience of PACE recommended 'treatments' published earlier this year. The PACE trial - a complaint. This is a tough...
ME/CFS Awareness part 2 (note part 1 is also at the link below) " Our Story We were a normal everyday family, doing all the things that families...
For most people, pain eventually fades away as an injury heals. But for others, the pain persists beyond the initial healing and becomes chronic,...
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