The BMJ have published a “living systematic review” of interventions for the management of Long Covid. It sets out to gather all relevant studies, and to comb their findings in order to see what works and what doesn’t. Having assessed 24 trials looking at drug and non-drug therapies, they draw […]
From Jaime Seltzer over on Bluesky: Please call for this one, guys, this is a horrific turn. There is something at the core of these folks that cannot accept patient narrative as a source of real data. They revert to default tropes about exercise rather than listening, or reading up-to-date […]
David Tuller has been conducting a series of interviews on YouTube relating to science, medicine, and medical controversies relating to ME/CFS and Long Covid. I was pleased to discuss with him my recently published book and, for good measure, the issue of dualism as it affects the psychologising of illness. […]
Here is a transcript of my recent podcast with the Norwegian ME Association. In the interview, we discuss the medical stigma where post-viral illnesses, such as ME and Long COVID, are falsely characterised as ‘psychological’ due to poorly grounded stereotyping. The discussion touches on how medical opinion has become intertwined […]
I recently had the pleasure of talking with the folks at the Norwegian ME Association for their (excellently produced) podcast series. Arising from my new book, we discussed the medical stigma in which an illness is falsely characterised as ‘psychological’ — post-viral conditions such as ME and Long Covid, for […]
Just the other week, I spoke at the annual conference of the RME, the Swedish National Association for ME. In my lecture, I took another look at the new ME/CFS guideline as published by NICE about one year ago. While I covered ground that might be familiar to some, it […]
