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By David Tuller, DrPH When last heard from, Terry Segal, a pediatrician at University College London, was the senior author of a 2019 review of pediatric treatments for what she and her colleagues called “CFS/ME.” The review was published in Current Opinion in Pediatrics, a high-impact journal. The abstract for the review singled out the …

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In infectious disease world, the term €œcorrelate of protection€ refers to something that can be measured – antibodies or T cells – which indicates that a person is protected against infection or disease. The correlates of protection for SARS-CoV-2 infection of humans are not yet known – after all it is still early in this …

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By David Tuller, DrPH *October is crowdfunding month at Berkeley. I conduct this project as a senior fellow in public health and journalism and the university’s Center for Global Public Health. If you would like to support the project, here’s the place: https://crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/22602 On October 20th, the British Association for CFS/ME issued a document titled €œPosition …

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By David Tuller, DrPH *October is crowdfunding month at Berkeley. I conduct this project as a senior fellow in public health and journalism and the university’s Center for Global Public Health. If you would like to support the project, here’s the place: https://crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/22602 The UK’s National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, or NICE, is planning …

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By David Tuller, DrPH *October is crowdfunding month at Berkeley. I conduct this project as a senior fellow in public health and journalism and the university’s Center for Global Public Health. If you would like to support the project, here’s the place: https://crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/22602 Carolyn Chew-Graham, a professor of general practice research at Keele University in Staffordshire …

Trial By Error: Professor Chew-Graham’s Apparent Shift in Position on GET/CBT Read More »

By David Tuller, DrPH *October is crowdfunding month at Berkeley. I conduct this project as a senior fellow in public health and journalism and the university’s Center for Global Public Health. If you would like to support the project, here’s the place: https://crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/22602 Among the troubling phenomena to emerge from the pandemic are the reports from …

Trial By Error: Some Thoughts on Long-Covid, ME/CFS and MUS Read More »