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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)