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http://openaccess.blogg.kb.se/2018/05/16/sweden-stands-up-for-open-access-cancels-agreement-with-elsevier/ 2018-05-16 AV ANNICA WENTZEL Sweden stands up for open access – cancels agreement with Elsevier Large science publisher Elsevier does not meet the requirements of Swedish universities...

Paywalled at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/sjop.12451

Regeringen: Mer kunskap behövs för bättre stöd till personer med kroniskt trötthetssyndrom http://www.regeringen.se/pressmeddelanden/2018/05/mer-kunskap-behovs-for-battre-stod-till-personer-med-kroniskt-trotthetssyndrom/

Bragée ME/CFS-Center in Stockholm, Sweden, is (probably) closing. They gave official notice of termination of their agreement with Stockholm County Council in the beginning of March, which means that they will be closing in September unless Stockholm County Council changes their mind and agrees...

Health journalist Josefin Lennen Merckx provides information about ME through four questions. Dette behøver du veta om ME google translation: This is what you need to know about ME 1. What is ME? 2. Why is it an unknown disease? 3. Why has it been controversial among health personell? 4. What...

Läkartidningen (Doctor's newspaper) provides news on behalf of the Swedish Medical Association. In May they invite to a seminar about the differences between chronic fatigue and ME. Important topic perhaps particularly in Sweden where chronic fatigue/idiopathic or stress related fatigue goes...

Infection Elicited Autoimmunity and Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: An Explanatory Model Jonas Blomberg 1, Carl-Gerhard Gottfries 2, Amal Elfaitouri 3, Muhammad Rizwan 1 and Anders Rosén 4 Department of Medical Sciences, Uppsala University, Clinical Microbiology, Academic...

Yesterday there were two articles about ME in the Swedish tabloid paper Aftonbladet. I wasn't able to google translate these articles for some reason.. Others are very welcome to have a go! Aftonbladet "Det enda jag tänkt på i tre år är den här jävla sjukdomen" The only thing I've thought about...

Another great and informative section about ME from Swedish media. This time an interview with the famous crime fiction author Karin Alvtegen who is ill with ME. She talks about how the disease has turned her life up side down and describes her meetings with doctors as a Kafka-process. She says...

Today there was a news section about ME on Swedish television. The Netflix-launch of Unrest was given much attention with scenes from the trailer. In studio were prof. Jonas Bergquist (ME-researcher and member of OMFs Scientific Advisory board) and Henrik, a carer over several years for his...

The Swedish patient organisation Riksföreningen för ME-patienter (RME) organised two international ME-conferences this autumn. The lectures were filmed and today RME uploaded them. @Sly Saint has already shared one of the lectures; "ME/CFS and the immune system. Where are we now?" by Geraldine...

RME Sverige Published on Dec 19, 2017 Geraldine (Jo) Cambridge, PhD, Dep. Medicine, University College, London on B-cell depletion with Rituximab.

This interview is so annoying it's funny. http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/12/researcher-swedish-fraud-case-speaks-out-i-m-very-disappointed-my-colleague With some authority figures responding to PACE, I really can't tell if they're playing dumb to avoid difficult questions, or if they're...

Thought it might be useful to have a thread on news from Scandinavia. Hopefully it can become an archive and useful as a reference in future. Starting with the kickoff of one of the four research projects which recently got funded in cooperation with ME-patients by the Research Council of...

Anomalous microbiome and metabolic profiling in ME/CFS-patients Prof Maureen Hanson, Cornell University, USA From 1:10:47 ME/CFS and the immune system. Where are we now? Geraldine (Jo) Cambridge, PhD, Dep. Medicine, University College, London From 5:33

https://forbetterscience.com/2017/10/30/swedish-central-ethics-review-board-finds-macchiarini-guilty-of-misconduct-requests-retraction-of-6-papers/ Reminder: 2 of the 6 articles were published in The Lancet (who published The PACE trial main paper)