…Berkeley, that her research and the FITNET-NHS protocol are highly problematic in their presentation of the illness variously called chronic fatigue syndrome, myalgic encephalomyelitis, ME/CFS, or CFS/ME. In the post…
…treatments. The three main investigators have had longstanding links with insurance companies, advising them that rehabilitative approaches such as the interventions under study could get ME/CFS claimants off benefits and…
…as an appropriate intervention for the illness they refer to as chronic fatigue syndrome but that is more appropriately called myalgic encephalomyelitis. (Two compromise terms, ME/CFS and CFS/ME, satisfy no…
…for this study on the grounds that it only involved service evaluation, even though it was piloting a new method of identifying previously undiagnosed patients for Professor Crawley’s CFS/ME clinical…
…In particular, the questions involved the status of the ten-year-old guidance for CFS/ME, CG53, and of references to the illness elsewhere within the NICE system. A few days ago, I…
…suggested that the treatment should be pursued with care. The other committee members objected to any use of the kind of CBT designed for ME/CFS, in part given the therapy’s…
