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Trial By Error: Speaker at CDC Event Promotes CBT and “Very Gradual” GET

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By David Tuller, DrPH The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has a long history of missteps when it comes to the illness or cluster of illnesses currently called ME/CFS—as anyone who has read Osler’s Web knows. In the more recent past—2017–the agency dropped its unfortunate endorsement of the discredited GET/CBT treatment approach but …

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Trial By Error: An Interview With Mt Sinai’s David Putrino About Long Covid, ME/CFS, and Related Issues

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By David Tuller, DrPH David Putrino is a neuroscientist and physical therapist at Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York. (Clarification: He trained as a physical therapist in Australia and is not licensed to practice in New York.) He runs a research lab and a rehabilitation center that quickly became a magnet for patients grappling with …

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Trial By Error: Now a Scottish Long Covid Study Fails to Mention the Risk of Post-Exertional Malaise

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By David Tuller, DrPH *April is crowdfunding month at UC Berkeley. If you like my work, consider making a tax-deductible donation to Berkeley’s School of Public Health to support the Trial By Error project: https://crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/31347 And here’s another major trial designed by investigators who think that an exercise program might be the optimal strategy for treating …

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Trial By Error: Two Reports on the Financial Burden of Long Covid and Its Impact on ME/CFS Prevalence

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By David Tuller, DrPH *April is crowdfunding month at UC Berkeley. If you like my work, consider making a tax-deductible donation to Berkeley’s School of Public Health to support the Trial By Error project: https://crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/31347 It is clear that long Covid—however that term is defined–is having enormous impacts on employment, social benefits, disability insurance, and other …

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Trial By Error: An Interview with Meghan O’Rourke, Author of “The Invisible Kingdom”

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By David Tuller, DrPH *April is crowdfunding month at UC Berkeley. If you like my work, consider making a tax-deductible donation to Berkeley’s School of Public Health to support the Trial By Error project: https://crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/31347 Last Friday, I interviewed poet, journalist and editor Meghan O’Rourke about The Invisible Kingdom, her insightful and affecting memoir of living …

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Trial By Error: The UK Health Research Authority’s Missteps on PACE and the Declaration of Helsinki

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By David Tuller, DrPH *April is crowdfunding month at UC Berkeley. If you like my work, consider making a tax-deductible donation to Berkeley’s School of Public Health to support the Trial By Error project: https://crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/31347 *Note: To give credit where it’s due, Magical Medicine: How to Make an Illness Disappear, an exhaustive investigation from Malcolm Hooper …

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