Author name: David Tuller

Trial By Error: CBT Provides No Benefits to Advanced Cancer Patients, Study Finds

By David Tuller, DrPH Since 2008, the National Health Service (NHS) in England has been rolling out a program known as Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT). Initially focused on patients with mental health issues like depression and anxiety disorders, IAPT was then expanded to include those who are also simultaneously suffering from “long-term conditions” …

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Trial By Error: The 2018 PACE Reanalysis and the SMC’s Expert Appraisals

By David Tuller, DrPH It has been almost two years since BMC Psychology published a key reanalysis of raw data from the PACE trial. Given the significance of this paper (of which I was the least important of seven co-authors), I figured it wouldn’t hurt to highlight it again. The heroic Alem Matthees, a patient …

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Trial By Error: NIH Funding “Needs Life Support,” Says Jennie Spotila

By David Tuller, DrPH Every year, Jennie Spotila deconstructs NIH funding on her Occupy M.E. blog. Last November 7, she crunched the numbers for the 2019 fiscal year, and the same day posted another blog with a more urgent message. I am re-posting that blog in full (a bit late), with Jennie’s permission. ********** NIH Funding …

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Trial By Error: The Danish ME Association’s Open Letter

By David Tuller, DrPH The Danish ME Association has sent and posted the following open letter to “Danish health politicians,” with a very impressive list of international signatories. It seemed important to give this letter wide circulation. (Note that footnotes 4 and 5 are linked to the names of two of the signatories, as in …

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Trial By Error: Some More Thoughts on Functional Neurological Disorder

By David Tuller, DrPH Last week I wrote a post on some of the signs used to diagnose people with “functional neurological disorder” (FND)–the phrase that has largely supplanted “conversion disorder” to describe neurological symptoms with no identified organic cause. In that post, I should have been clearer that I do not question whether people …

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