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Viewpoint: Weir & Speight – ME/CFS: Past, present & future
ME/CFS: Past, present and future, by William Weir and Nigel Speight in Healthcare 2021, 9(8), 984 [doi.org/10.3390/healthcare9080984] Article abstract: This review raises a number of compelling issues related to the condition of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS). Some historical … Continue reading
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Tagged Dr Nigel Speight, Dr William Weir, healthcare, psychological causation
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Life-threatening malnutrition in very severe ME/CFS
Life-threatening malnutrition in very severe ME/CFS, by Helen Baxter, Nigel Speight and William Weir in Healthcare 2021, 9(4), 459; [doi.org/10.3390/healthcare9040459] 14 April 2021 (This article belongs to the Special Issue ME/CFS – the Severely and Very Severely Affected) Case Reports … Continue reading
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Tagged case report, case studies, domiciliary care, Dr Nigel Speight, Dr William Weir, enteral feeding, Helen Baxter, HENS dietician, Home Enteral Nutrition Service, malnutrition, Mast cell activation disorder, MCAD, tube feeding, very severe ME/CFS
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Long Covid: overlap emerges with ME – including debate over treatment
Guardian article: Long Covid: overlap emerges with ME – including debate over treatment by Linda Geddes, Science correspondent, Thu 19 Nov 2020 This article features people with long Covid, and looks at the similarities in symptoms of ME and … Continue reading
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Tagged Dr Amy Small, Dr Anthony Fauci, Dr Manoj Sivan, Dr William Weir, Guardian, long Covid, MEAction, pacing, post-viral fatigue
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3 more UK doctors join request for independent inquiry into PACE Trial
Dr Charles Shepherd, Dr Nigel Speight, and infectious diseases consultant Dr William Weir have joined 39 other signatories to the open letter to the Lancet which first appeared on Prof Vincent Rancaniello’s ‘Virology’ blog on November 13 2015. The letter was … Continue reading
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Tagged Dr Charles Shepherd, Dr Nigel Speight, Dr Richard Horton, Dr William Weir, Lancet, PACE trial, Prof Vincent Racaniello
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Responses to ‘Fear of exercise’ report in BMJ
The BMJ reports on the latest study from the PACE trial published on 13 January in the Lancet Psychiatry, with an article by Ingrid Torjesen. A number of letters in response challenging the research conclusions have been published online including those by: Prof … Continue reading
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Tagged BMJ, British medical Journal, Carolyn Wilshire, Dr Cahrles Shephard, Dr William Weir, exercise phobia, Greg Crowhurst, Ingrid Torjesen, Lancet Psychiatry, PACE trial, Prof Jonathan Edwards, Simon Lawrence, Tom Kindlon
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Wessely saga continues
In November Prof Simon Wessely was awarded with the John Maddox Standing up for Science honour. The prize was created by the journal Nature and the charitable trust Sense about Science (Prof Wessely is one of its advisers). It was … Continue reading
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Tagged Countess of Mar, Dr William Weir, Independent, John Maddox standing up for science award, Prof Malcom Hooper, Prof Simon Wessely, Sense about science
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