By David Tuller, DrPH I'm in Sydney now, but last week I had a busy few days in Canberra. My hosts were the wonderful duo of Libby Steeper and Eleanor Flowers. They treated me like royalty and shepherded me around town to the various appointments they and others had organized. ...

By David Tuller, DrPH In response to our last letter to BMJ Open about its ethically challenged school absence study, the journal's editor, Dr. Trish Groves, once again invited us to submit a letter for publication. We have declined. To recap: In 2011, BMJ Open published a research study that ...

By David Tuller, DrPH So I've been in Australia for a week. In Melbourne on Friday, I was happy to spend a couple of hours with Emerge Australia, the local ME/CFS advocacy group. We had video glitches so there is not a continuous tape of the discussion, but here's a ...

By David Tuller, DrPH So I arrived in Melbourne on Wednesday afternoon. I'll be in Australia for several weeks for meetings, interviews and general information-gathering. I'll post occasionally, but some of the information might be for future blogs and stories. I've conducted a Q-and-A about the general situation in the ...

By David Tuller, DrPH And now some potentially good news from the Netherlands. Two years ago, the Dutch parliament asked the Health Council, an independent scientific advisory body, to review the state of evidence related to the illness generally called chronic fatigue syndrome in the Netherlands. That review was to ...