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Big article about ME and graded exercise therapy in the Danish news site for research; Videnskab.dk The Cochrane review is discussed, and author Lillebeth Larun is interviewed. The article mentions the planned going over of her review at Cochrane and apparently she is currently working on...

I thought it might be of use to collect news regarding functional disorders in one place, to help keeping an overview of the lobbyism taking place. In June 2020 you can sign up in Denmark to a seminar that will prepare you to become an "ambassador" in your municipality for functional disorders...

The Danish Health Authorities has just published a guideline on how to code Functional Disorders. ME has previously been included in the term Functional Disorders, but Danish politicians overruled this and decided WHO's definition of ME should be kept. Here are the new codes on functional...

The open letter is even in English :) The letter is also sent to the Minister of Higher Education and Science and the Danish Health Authority. The Danish ME Association: Open Letter to Danish Health Politicians ETA: In short they demand a long term investment in biomedical ME research.

The Danish medical newspaper Dagens Medisin has had a seminar about health where psychiatrist Per Fink was invited. He talks about how he's been attacked and harassed by patients, and even had a senator speaking against him. His clinic has hired help from a communication agency, the staff has...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31409218

Many will remember the horrible Karina Hansen case from Denmark. A young woman with severe ME who got sectioned and taken from her family's care to undergo treatment from psychiatrists Per Fink and Nils Balle Christensen. They believed she suffered from functional disorder. Her family was not...

Moderator note: new thread with posts from here https://www.s4me.info/threads/news-from-scandinavia.647/page-34#post-175962 Danish Medical Journal (Ugeskriftet.dk) has published an article about the status of CFS/ME. It's good to see references to Wilshire et al and Twisk et al, but the...

https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=da&u=https://dagensmedicin.dk/nok-er-nok-lad-laegerne-vaere-laeger/ Rest behind a paywall. Can anyone get access to the full article?

Den syge på Fanø: Skal de kronisk trætte træne? google translation: The patient at Fanø: Should the chronically tired exercise? Please look beyond the dreadful title, as the article itself is rather good. Contains interview with David Tovey and the director of the National Board of Health...

Director of Danish Health Authority Søren Brostrøm Letter to the Editor Journal of Psychosomatic Research Topic is regarding the Danish approach to 'functional disorders' in Denmark which includes ME/CFS. Available @ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022399918309498?via=ihub...

Might be of interest. It is getting a lot of attention in Denmark and Norway. The study is from Aarhus, a strong epicentre for psychosomatics and functional disorders, which makes me a bit wary whether there might be some politics involved here. Jama Psychiatry: A Nationwide study in Denmark of...

Free full text: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/fullarticle/2716981

Free full text: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-07019-x

Couldn't find an appropriate existing thread to post this in, if I've missed one though then let me know. Update on Karina from Valerie Eliot Smith https://valerieeliotsmith.com/2018/06/25/karina-hansen-8-the-aftermath-continues/

https://corsius.wordpress.com/2018/06/21/to-the-danish-health-authorities-government/ to the Danish minister of Health sum@sum.dk to Søren Brostrøm @SSTbrostrom Direktør for Sundhedsstyrelsen (Danish Health Authority) sst@sst.dk to the Danish Health Safety Institute stps@stps.dk

The recommendations for Danish ‘funktionelle lidelser’ in English called 'functional disorders' were released today, monday the 18th of june. Available @ https://www.sst.dk/da/nyheder/2018/~/media/15C564788C0B445682C87695A2AFF6CD.ashx The recommendations are so terrible that I believe they...

The local Danish newspaper Ukeavisen Esbjerg has written several articles about a severe ME-patient who is bed bound and nursed by her parents, and whom the municipality sees fit to work and thus not in need of welfare money. Today the newspaper print a manifest made by 85 ME-patients who tell...

This came up on the Mikes EU marathons thread. " DENMARK I spoke to Rebecca Hansen from the Danish ME Association ME Foreningen and severe ME patient Kamilla Thomsen. Here's what they told me about living with ME in Denmark. Rebecca Hansen Can you give us an overview of what life is like...

Mods, this article straddles a couple of categories so please go ahead and transfer it if it's not the right place. It's a long read describing the onset of m.e. following hard upon a vaccination with Gardisil. Its focus is primarily on the problematic collection of data during the clinical...