Trial By Error: Some Lightning Process Updates
…in the ongoing process of the UK’s National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) to create new clinical guidelines for ME/CFS. In November, NICE released a draft version that…
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Trial By Error: CBT Model of Medically Unexplained Symptoms, Explained; CBT Trial for Q-Fever Fatigue
…perpetuate symptoms, can reduce symptoms and improve functioning in CFS. A considerable overlap in fatigue-perpetuating factors between QFS and CFS implies that CBT might also reduce fatigue severity in QFS.”…
Trial By Error: Tack and I Write to Psych Medicine; Struthers Writes to Medical Research Council
…to the journal with Michiel Tack, an ME/CFS patient who comments incisively about research on his blog, ME/CFS Skeptic. In addition being submitted as correspondence, the letter has also been…
Trial By Error: More on the REGAIN Trial for Long Covid Patients
…Covid patients. Unfortunately, neither the protocol nor the participant information sheet, to which participants are referred during the consenting process, mentions the core ME/CFS symptom of post-exertional malaise (PEM), which…
Trial By Error: More on the Perplexing Dutch Claim that Null Results for Objective Measures of Physical Activity Are Irrelevant to Fatigue
…physical activity has been associated with increased fatigue in patients with CFS, Sjogren’s disease, and breast cancer.” *“Fatigue is generally associated with low physical activity in patients with various chronic…
Trial By Error: Guardian Columnist George Monbiot Calls Out the GET/CBT Charlatans and the Fraudulent PACE Trial
…brigades for their decades-long promotion of discredited theories about and bogus research into the cluster of illnesses now being called ME/CFS. Those theories and research strategies reached their apotheosis, of…