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    national demonstration in Belgium on March 14

    ME/CFS patients in Belgium are organising a big demonstration at the Ministry of Health in favour of better care, more biomedical research and against CBT/GET as the only referral option. The date coincides with the appeal of a ME doctor who risks a huge fine and a two-year suspension for having...
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    New article in CBC - Exercise Helps!!

    A leading Dutch newspaper brought the story without even interviewing a patient organisation, just as if it were the Revealed Truth. We're having a very hard time with the media in Belgium and the Netherlands. Only last week an article critiqueing the psych approach was removed from the site of...
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    Rodent Exposure Poll

    I had a mouse as a teenager and have always had cats until a few years ago. Some of them were excellent hunters and I've had to dispose of the occasional mouse cadaver. I tested negative for culture and PCR, am waiting for serology results.
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    No More Psychological Studies. An editorial, by Mindy Kitei

    Originally Posted by sacha 'There are many countries with socialised medicine where very sick people are obliged to jump through hoops because the psychs tell them to.' And there are countries without socialised medicine where the same happens, like the USA. I am getting tired of folks who...
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    No More Psychological Studies. An editorial, by Mindy Kitei

    Hm, I'm not quite sure what's going on in this thread, there seems to be some goading and willful misinterpretation. Personally I'm very thankful that a bunch of well-informed people are picking psych studies apart. The psychs are in power, unfortunately. There are many countries with socialised...
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    Is cAMP suppressing our innate immune system?

    I stopped taking NSAIDS because they are considered to be a contributing factor to leaky gut.
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    PatientsLikeMe doing a CFS/FMS survey for Petrie (major psychobabbler)

    RESULTS: Although CFS patients were significantly slower in colour naming all of the Stroop word categories than controls, there was no evidence for illness or depressed words creating greater interference than neutral words. However, on the ambiguous cues task, CFS patients made significantly...
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    ME/CFS docter Dr. Vermeulen R.C.W. suspended

    No, not since Vermeulen has been suspended. Coucke and Uyttersprot are clearly victims of a witchhunt. They are not private practitioners (in which case nothing would have happened) but work within the national social security system. They applied for, and received, permission to prescribe...
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    ME/CFS docter Dr. Vermeulen R.C.W. suspended

    Unfortunately it all seems to be true Xand, Vermeulen has admitted the charges.