By David Tuller, DrPH It has been almost two years since BMC Psychology published a key reanalysis of raw data from the PACE trial. Given the significance of this paper (of which I was the least important of seven co-authors), I figured it wouldn't hurt to highlight it again. The ...

By David Tuller, DrPH Every year, Jennie Spotila deconstructs NIH funding on her Occupy M.E. blog. Last November 7, she crunched the numbers for the 2019 fiscal year, and the same day posted another blog with a more urgent message. I am re-posting that blog in full (a bit late), with ...

By David Tuller, DrPH The Danish ME Association has sent and posted the following open letter to "Danish health politicians," with a very impressive list of international signatories. It seemed important to give this letter wide circulation. (Note that footnotes 4 and 5 are linked to the names of two ...

By David Tuller, DrPH Last week I wrote a post on some of the signs used to diagnose people with "functional neurological disorder" (FND)--the phrase that has largely supplanted "conversion disorder" to describe neurological symptoms with no identified organic cause. In that post, I should have been clearer that I ...

By David Tuller, DrPH My first exchange of views with the PACE authors involved the issue of case definition--the criteria used to identify the illness they  called chronic fatigue syndrome. This exchange took place courtesy of The New York Times, not long after The Lancet published the results of the ...