Journalist and public health expert David Tuller completed yesterday the publication of his highly critical investigation into the UK’s £5 million PACE trial, on the well known Virology Blog (see Parts 1 and 2, Part 3 and Part 4). The PACE trial was a non-blind study of cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) and graded exercise therapy (GET)
Health scientist and New York Times published journalist David Tuller today launched a damning critique upon the UK’s £5 million PACE trial in an article published on the popular Virology Blog. The PACE trial was an open-label study of graded exercise therapy and cognitive behavioural therapy for chronic fatigue syndrome that used subjective measures as
SMCI Meets with Senate Appropriations Staff The Solve ME/CFS Initiative has posted an
The Open Medicine Foundation has just begun a fundraising campaign to raise $8.3K in donations and have it matched 3:1, which will result in $25K + $8.3 = $33.3K!
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Neurology Now on CFS Neurology Now recently posted an article targeted at neurologists with the headline “Beyond Tired: Is chronic fatigue syndrome a real medical condition? Yes, according to a report from the Institute of Medicine, which urges physicians to treat it accordingly.” The piece is primarily focused on the IOM report and its suggested
I’m working with a national M.E. charity, Action for M.E., as their Volunteer Pharmacist, providing information about pharmacy services, writing health and pharmacy-related articles, and putting together a resource for pharmacy professionals about M.E. I’m gathering thoughts and suggestions from both people with M.E. and pharmacy professionals because it’s important that the resource includes a full picture of M.E.
UK CMRC conference to be livestreamed on 13 and 14 October Parts of this year’s UK CFS/ME Research Collaborative (CMRC) international conference, which will be held in Newcastle on Tuesday the 13th and Wednesday the 14th of October, will be livestreamed by the charity Action for ME. The conference has a full two-day agenda of
Minutes just released for the 15 July 2015 meeting of the cross-charity Forward-ME group record a discussion with Dr Martin McShane of NHS England on getting him to recommend that the NICE guideline on ME/CFS should be revised. The guideline, which should be based on the best available scientific evidence, and which is followed by
The Tragic Neglect of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome With a surprisingly broad-ranging and detail-rich article by Olga Khazan entitled “The Tragic Neglect of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome,” The Atlantic became the latest national publication to inform its readers about the severity of disease impact, dearth of medical understanding and treatment, lack of public awareness, and abysmally low
