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If you appreciate this piece and/or my work in general, here’s a link to my current UC Berkeley crowdfunding effort: https://crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/20159 ********** By David Tuller, DrPH Since the coronavirus epidemic hit, people with ME have been concerned about the possibility of a secondary wave of post-COVID-19 cases of prolonged disease–especially given emerging evidence of neurological complications …

Trial By Error: Oxford-NHS Recommends GET/CBT for Post-COVID “CFS” Patients Read More »

By David Tuller, DrPH As the world continues to wrestle with the coronavirus epidemic, President Trump is calling on us here in the US to get back to work. So I decided to start seeking answers again from Mahana Therapeutics, which announced in January that it had licensed a web-based cognitive behavior therapy program for …

Trial By Error: Revisiting Mahana and Irritable Bowel Syndrome… Read More »

By David Tuller, DrPH Well, it’s that time of year again, and it can’t be avoided–even in a pandemic. As many of you know, my ongoing investigation of bad research into ME, CFS, so-called “medically unexplained symptoms,” etc., conducted under the “Trial By Error” name on Virology Blog, is my project as a UC Berkeley …

Trial By Error: Berkeley Crowdfunding Month, Coronavirus Edition Read More »

By David Tuller, DrPH At this time two years ago, I was in Australia on a six-week work trip. As part of my tour, I visited Perth so I could meet and spent a little time with Alem Matthees. I also got to spend time with his lovely family–his mom Helen, his step-dad Jim, and …

Trial By Error: My Visits with Alem Matthees (Reprise) Read More »

By David Tuller, DrPH This is another non-coronavirus post–my second in two days. Before we were interrupted, I had been looking more into so-called “medically unexplained symptoms,” or MUS. A recently published study with data on the length of time needed to obtain a diagnosis of systemic lupus erythematosus, commonly known as lupus, has highlighted some …

Trial By Error: A Post About Lupus and MUS, Not COVID Read More »

By David Tuller, DrPH In the days before coronavirus was everything, I was writing about a major study of cognitive behavior therapy for irritable bowel syndrome. The study tested telephone-delivered cognitive behavior therapy, web-based CBT against treatment-as-usual for IBS symptom severity and other more generic domains.