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Trial By Error: Research From GET/CBT Ideological Brigades Shows No Improvements in Work Status

30 September 2022 by David Tuller 7 Comments

By David Tuller, DrPH

Last year, Mark Vink, a Dutch physician with ME/CFS, and Friso Vink-Niese, an independent researcher, published a review of occupational outcomes among ME/CFS patients after treatment with either graded exercise therapy (GET) and cognitive behavior therapy (CBT). The results were not pretty. When viewed specifically through the perspective of employment status, the treatments bombed.

Trial By Error: A Few Things of Interest I Read This Week

2 September 2022 by David Tuller

By David Tuller, DrPH

Miriam Tucker on Long Covid in WebMd

The always reliable Miriam Tucker, who has frequently covered ME/CFS for Medscape and other publications, has just written a piece for WebMD called “Long COVID Mimics Other Post-Viral Conditions.” The article covers some of the similarities in symptoms between long Covid and ME/CFS and highlights advocacy efforts to ensure that research initiatives targeting long Covid also include ME/CFS. The article further explores how the emergence of long Covid has impacted how the medical world views ME/CFS.