By David Tuller, DrPH *The headline has been changed to indicate that Cochrane has decided to withdraw the review but had not yet done so at time of posting. Cochrane has decided to withdraw, at least for now, its fatally flawed review of exercise treatments for ME/CFS–or CFS, as the review calls the illness. This …
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By David Tuller, DrPH *Please see note at end of post After I posted yesterday’s blog about Per Fink’s upcoming appearance at the fourth annual Columbia Psychosomatic Conference being held this weekend, I received the following e-mail from Columbia’s Alla Landa. She is an assistant professor of “clinical psychology in psychiatry”–whatever that means–and director of …
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By David Tuller, DrPH Someone uninformed or stupid or maybe both decided to invite Danish physician Per Fink to present at a conference on so-called psychosomatic medicine being held this weekend at Columbia University. Fink, I won€™t dignify him by using an honorific–is a scary guy. He should never have been provided with this prestigious …
By David Tuller, DrPH Since 2008, the English arm of the National Health Service has been rolling out a program called Improving Access to Psychological Therapies, or IAPT. More than 900,000 people now receive IAPT services annually. This program arose out of the notion that many people were suffering from untreated depression, anxiety and other psychiatric …
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By David Tuller, DrPH I sent the following e-mail today to Dr Nick Brown, the editor-in-chief of Archives of Disease in Childhood, the journal that published the Lightning Process study a year ago. I cc’d Dr Fiona Godlee, editorial director of BMJ, which publishes Archives. **********
By David Tuller, DrPH So I attended the CFS/ME Research Collaborative conference two weeks ago in Bristol. The two-day event was a refreshingly PACE-free zone–as far as I could tell, I was the only person who mentioned that piece of crap in public comments. (Although I wasn€™t on the schedule, CMRC vice chair Chris Ponting, …
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