By David Tuller, DrPH The US government seems to be taking Long COVID seriously. In December, Congress allocated $1.15 billion over four years for research into the issue. This week, Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, announced the agency's plans for that funding. (I've posted his announcement ...

By David Tuller, DrPH It's been ten years since The Lancet published the first results of the PACE trial. Wow! Ten years ago, I was 54 and still a graduate student in public health at UC Berkeley. I was also busy writing stories for The New York Times about the ...

By David Tuller, DrPH Last fall, Professor Sir Simon Wessely and Professor Trudie Chalder were among several co-authors of a study published in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. The study purported to prove that years of provision of cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) to patients with "chronic fatigue" ...

By David Tuller, DrPH Biopsychosocial Campaigners Target Long-Covid New papers from the biopsychosocial campaigners often provide opportunities to highlight unwarranted assertions, misleading use of data, and, in particular--associations interpreted as if they were causal relationships and not, well, associations. An article co-authored by Trudie Chalder, a professor of cognitive behavioural ...

By David Tuller, DrPH Three years ago, The New York Times' popular Modern Love column published a beautifully written tear-jerker by Jamison Hill--a former bodybuilder with ME. The column, "Love Means Never Having to Say...Anything," described in tender prose how two people with debilitating chronic illness were able to find ...