By David Tuller, DrPH Professor Paul Garner, an infectious disease doctor at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, has had a rough time with long-Covid. He has written about his experiences in a series of compelling blog posts on BMJ's site. At first, he bonded with members of the ME/CFS ...

By David Tuller, DrPH The relationship between what is being called long-Covid and ME/CFS (and its variants) is complex. The conditions overlap in ways that are poorly understood, and the mechanisms through which they produce such significant disabilities remain elusive. As the coronavirus pandemic enters its second year, many tens ...

By David Tuller, DrPH The name myalgic encephalomyelitis is inextricably linked with an outbreak of what appeared by all accounts to be a viral illness at London's Royal Free Hospital in the second half of 1955. More than 200 people, most of them female staff and students, fell ill. Some ...

By David Tuller, DrPH I have been laying low during the recent holiday and coup season. Today I'm watching the impeachment hearings. And I might find it challenging to get back up to full speed until after New Year's--which for me will be January 20th, or whichever day the White ...

By David Tuller, DrPH For decades, investigators have argued over the causes of the illness or cluster of illnesses variously called myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME), chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS),  ME/CFS, CFS/ME and other names. In the absence of an adequate explanation for the debilitating symptoms, a flawed approach to intervention based ...