Tag: jo daniels

  • NICE’s Upcoming Draft Guidance on ME/CFS

    *October is crowdfunding month at Berkeley. I conduct this project as a senior fellow in public health and journalism and the university’s Center for Global Public Health. If you would like to support the project, here’s the place: https://crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/22602 The UK’s National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, or NICE, is planning to release a draft…

  • Nudge for BMJ About Music Therapy; Letter to “Health Anxiety” Expert

    I have written two more letters and have posted them below. The first letter is a nudge to BMJ’s research integrity department, which missed a deadline this week for providing me with an update on the status of that music therapy study from Norway. You know, the one that started off as a fully powered…

  • Now There’s CBT for ‘Health Anxiety’ in CFS

    In late December, the International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology published an article called “Prevalence and treatment of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis and co-morbid severe health anxiety.” This paper, from investigators at the University of Bath and Oxford University, actually included two separate studies documenting the purported relationship between a construct called “health anxiety”…