Is current guidance for the management of CFS/ME in England fit for purpose?

" This multi-centre study in the NHS has shown that CFS/ME  [chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis]  is a long term condi...

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"Medical history was associated with increased risk of CFS/ME"

The paper by Berit Feiring and colleagues [1] (open-access) is the source blogging material today covering an area that I was previously un...

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On your marks, GETSET...

I don't doubt that the article published by Lucy Clark and colleagues [1] (open-access) on the topic of testing " the efficacy and...

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Healthcare use before, during and after a diagnosis of CFS/ME

" Adults and children with CFS/ME [ chronic fatigue syndrome / myalgic encephalomyelitis ]  have greater health care needs than the res...

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Low dose suramin and autism: a small RCT with potentially big results

'Low dose' has been a feature of my autism research reading this week; first starting with the results from Dan Quintana and colleag...

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Intestinal dysbiosis, irritable bowel syndrome and ME/CFS

I don't want to spend too much time talking about yet another paper from the research tag-team that is Hornig & Lipkin [1] (open-ac...

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Mitochondrial mutations are not common in chronic fatigue syndrome but...

" We report the complete mtDNA [ mitochondrial DNA ]  sequence of 93 CFS  [ chronic fatigue syndrome ]  patients from the UK and RSA , ...

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Hornig, Lipkin and chronic fatigue syndrome again

Drs Mady Hornig and Ian Lipkin once again provide some fodder for this blog,  continuing one of their important research themes on how chro...

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"a gradual decline in recorded diagnoses of CFS/ME since 2001"?

The quote forming the title of today's post comes from the paper by Simon Collin and colleagues [1] ( open-access available here ) who,...

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The continuing trials and tribulations of PACE

I honestly hadn't intended talking about the PACE trial  - " pacing, graded activity, and cognitive behaviour therapy: a randomised...

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PACE trial recovery data and chronic fatigue syndrome - a reply

I'd encourage readers interested in the background to the response paper by Michael Sharpe and colleagues [1] to have a look at a previ...

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