Category: Syndicated
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A Few Things I’ve Read (or Heard) Lately About ME/CFS and Long Covid
Here are a few things I’ve recently read (or listened to). FreakonomicsMD podcast The Freakonomics brand is well-known in the US. I didn’t realize there was a Freakonomics, M.D. podcast until I listened to this recent half-hour episode. The podcast is hosted by Dr Bapu Jena, a physician and economist at Harvard Medical School. The…
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Professor Chalder Reports CBT Does Not Work for Post-Stroke Fatigue, Calls for More Research
Calling out a Trudie Chalder paper is way too easy. It’s also old hat for Virology Blog—going back to 2015 and my initial investigation into the now-discredited PACE trial, of which she was one of three lead investigators. She is a professor of “cognitive behavioural psychotherapy” at King’s College London, so she researches the impact…
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A Conversation with Patient Advocate Adam “Beyonce Holes” Lowe
Adam Lowe, known in some incarnations as Beyonce Holes, is a longtime ME/CFS patient and advocate in Manchester, England, served as a lay member of the committee that produced the new clinical guidance published last October by the UK’s National Institute for Health and Care Excellence. (This conversation was a follow-up to one I previously…
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Mom Speaks Out About NHS “Abuse” of Daughter; Norway Approves Lightning Process Study
On Monday, The Times (UK) published a story about a 17-year-old girl with ME who has experienced hospital treatment that her family has referred to as “neglect and abuse.” The details are harrowing—but should not be unfamiliar to people aware of similar experiences reported by other teenagers with severe ME. Parents and kids caught in…