Rapid response to the BMJ ‘living systematic review’ of long COVID interventions
The BMJ (British Medical Journal) recently published a ‘living’ systematic review of interventions for long COVID (post-COVID condition) by Zeraatkhar and co...
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Text-message lobbying of senior NICE staff by individuals at NHS England and the Royal College of Psychiatrists in days before ME/CFS guideline pause
On August 4 2021, an embargoed copy of the final NICE guideline for ME/CFS — already severely delayed — was distributed to registered stakeholders “for a fin...
BACME, NHS ME/CFS clinics shift from deconditioning to dysregulation model of ME/CFS in anticipation of updated NICE guideline
The British Association for Clinicians in ME/CFS (BACME) describes itself as ‘a multidisciplinary organisation for UK professionals who are involved in the d...
Behind the scenes at NICE: The justification for further delay to the ME/CFS guideline publication date
On March 29, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) announced that the expected publication date for the revised guideline for ME/CFS h...
Letter to The Guardian, 28 April 2021 (Published)
In response to this Opinion piece in the The Guardian, I wrote the following response, which I’m pleased to say was published on 29 April:
Letter to The Guardian, 12 March 2021
In response to this article in the The Guardian, I wrote the following unpublished response:
Letter to The Times, 24 June 2020
In response to a collection of articles in The Times concerning ME/CFS and the announcement of the DecodeME study, I wrote the following letter, which this t...
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Health history
I became ill in spring 2012 with what was likely a nondescript viral illness, during a period of heightened stress. I was prescribed the antibiotic phenoxyme...