By David Tuller, DrPH It is hard enough to write when you're feeling healthy. So I'm in awe of people who manage to write despite suffering from a debilitating chronic illness, especially one that messes around with cognitive functioning. That number includes some ME patients who have written novels. (I ...

By David Tuller, DrPH A week ago, Britain's National Institute for Health and Care Excellence published its new, evidence-based guideline for ME/CFS, which recommended against graded exercise therapy and cognitive behavior therapy offered as curative rather than as supportive care. Not surprisingly, this event creates some public relations problems for ...

By David Tuller, DrPH *For more about the significance of the new NICE guideline for ME/CFS, the blog ME/CFS Skeptic has this excellent summary. Also, psychologist Brian Hughes covers the deep concerns of leading medical groups that the guideline recommends against the Lightning Process. It is not surprising that esteemed ...

By David Tuller, DrPH After much drama, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has finally liberated its hijacked ME/CFS clinical guideline. As many know, in August the agency abruptly called off the planned publication of this new document, which was developed over four years. This decision occurred ...

By David Tuller, DrPH It is hard to know what to make of the news that a peer-reviewed journal has actually accepted a PACE-reunion paper from the three lead investigators, Professors Michael Sharpe, Trudie Chalder, and Peter White. Even more so for a paper titled--without irony, it seems--"Evidence based care ...