By David Tuller, DrPH When the pandemic began, everyone involved in the ME, CFS, and ME/CFS domain assumed that there would be a wave of post-acute, prolonged complications, since every virus seems to leave in its wake a small but still significant number of people who report a range of ...

By David Tuller, DrPH Last July, I sent a letter to Benjamin Tolchin, a neurologist at Yale, about the statement, in a 2021 paper for which he was the lead author, regarding prevalence rates for functional neurological disorder (FND). Last month, I sent it again. I’ve still had no response. ...

By David Tuller, DrPHUpdate, Feb 3rd: After less than 24 hours, our letter was rejected by the journal. Here's the message I received: Dear Dr Tuller, Thank you for your recent submission to The Lancet Respiratory Medicine. We have now had time to consider your manuscript and unfortunately, on this occasion, ...

By David Tuller, DrPH Last week, Codastory.com published an article I wrote about Maeve Boothby O’Neill, a 27-year-old in Exeter, England, who died in October, 2021, from complications of ME. The specific cause appears to have been malnutrition. Despite being alerted to the seriousness of Maeve’s condition, the local hospital ...

By David Tuller, DrPH Proponents of the psychosomatic approach to ME and long Covid--as well as the broader range of so-called “functional” disorders and/or “medically unexplained symptoms”--routinely declare that those who disagree with them are engaging in what they dismissively refer to as mind-body "dualism." The mind and body are ...