By David Tuller, DrPH It's been a slow period. Here are a few things I've read recently... "The pandemic's untold fertility story" While Long Covid disproportionately affects women, its impact on their reproductive lives has not received the attention the issue deserves. Recently, Australia’s ABC News addressed the issue with ...

By David Tuller, DrPH Update/Correction: Below, I initially wrote that Cochrane was lying in describing the update plan as a "pilot project." However, it turns out that the organization did describe its plan to engage community partners as a "pilot project." Here's the statement from March, 2020: "Cochrane is conducting ...

By David Tuller, DrPH Cochrane has just given the finger to the international ME/CFS community. After jerking everyone around and promising for five years to conduct a new review of exercise interventions for the illness, the organization abruptly abandoned that commitment this week. On Monday, Cochrane posted the following message ...

Update: Maeve's mum, Sarah Boothby, has commented on this blog. I am posting her comment here: Sorry if this seems picky but Maeve did not die in hospital [DT: Fixed! Not sure how I made this error] and the RDUH Trust document is what we call a treatment pathway. It ...

By David Tuller, DrPH The BMJ recently published a review of interventions for Long Covid that--surprise!--recommended CBT and a rehabilitation program as treatments. The review is full of holes. I have focused on one in particular. The review relies for its rehabilitation recommendation on an earlier BMJ study--even though that ...