Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Dr Speedy’s 2009 CBT CALENDAR

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4 comments:

  1. Wonderful Dr Speedy - December is a cracker!

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  2. A weird & unscientific way to define M.E.?

    (Psychiatrist Peter White is Chief Medical Officer of the insurance company Swiss Re.)

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    Subject: Re: RES: Risk markers for both chronic fatigue and irritable bowel syndromes: a prospective case-control study in primary care



    "Two subgroups of fatigue syndrome cases were studied: those with a
    diagnostic
    label that included the word 'post-viral' or 'post-infectious', which we
    call
    PVFS here, and the remainder, composed of CFS or ME, which we call CFS/ME."



    Risk markers for both chronic fatigue and irritable bowel syndromes:
    a prospective case-control study in primary care.

    Journal: Psychol Med. 2009 Apr 15:1-9. [Epub ahead of print]

    Authors: Hamilton WT, Gallagher AM, Thomas JM, White PD.

    Affiliation: Academic Unit of Primary Health Care, University of
    Bristol, Bristol, UK.

    NLM Citation: PMID: 19366500


    BACKGROUND: Fatigue syndromes and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)
    often occur together. Explanations include being different
    manifestations of the same condition and simply sharing some symptoms.

    Method: A matched case-control study in UK primary care, using data
    collected prospectively in the General Practice Research Database
    (GPRD). The main outcome measures were: health-care utilization,
    specific symptoms and diagnoses. Risk markers were divided into
    distant (from 3 years to 1 year before diagnosis) and recent (1 year
    before diagnosis).

    RESULTS: A total of 4388 patients with any fatigue syndrome were
    matched to two groups of patients: those attending for IBS and those
    attending for another reason. Infections were specific risk markers
    for both syndromes, with viral infections being a risk marker for a
    fatigue syndrome [odds ratios (ORs) 2.3-6.3], with a higher risk
    closer to onset, and gastroenteritis a risk for IBS (OR 1.47,
    compared to a fatigue syndrome). Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS)
    shared more distant risk markers with IBS than other fatigue
    syndromes, particularly other symptom-based disorders (OR 3.8) and
    depressive disorders (OR 2.3), but depressive disorders were a
    greater risk for CFS than IBS (OR 2.4). Viral infections were more of
    a recent risk marker for CFS compared to IBS (OR 2.8), with
    gastroenteritis a greater risk for IBS (OR 2.4).

    CONCLUSIONS: Both fatigue and irritable bowel syndromes share
    predisposing risk markers, but triggering risk markers differ.
    Fatigue syndromes are heterogeneous, with CFS sharing predisposing
    risks with IBS, suggesting a common predisposing pathophysiology.

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    and here's the WHO definition of M.E., which they classified as a neurological illness since 1969:

    M.E.
    ME/CFS is an acquired organic, pathophysiological, multi-systemic illness that occurs in both sporadic and epidemic forms. Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ICD 10 G93.3), which includes CFS, is classified as a neurological disease in the World Health Organization's International Classification of Diseases (ICD). Chronic fatigue must not be confused with ME/CFS because the "fatigue" of ME/CFS represents pathophysiological exhaustion and is only one of many symptoms.

    Prof White doesn't seem to be studying the same illness.

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  3. ME on Sky news again:

    First half you've seen, Second half is Action for M.E.'s Nadia Conway.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42nSNLQsVNs

    I hope no-one believes that AfME are actually funding biomedical research; they are allegedly funding a project designed to have ME reclassified from a neurological illness to a mental one.

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  4. STATEMENT FROM ESME – EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR ME

    More Biomedical Research Needed



    ME/CFS (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome) is a physical
    disease. It is not a product of the patients’ imagination and is not a
    psychological problem. Funds have been used for research into the
    hypothetical psychiatric nature of the disease at the expense of biomedical
    research. Future research needs to be interdisciplinary and focused on the
    causes, early diagnosis and treatment of ME/CFS.



    The British National Health Service has published NICE guidelines for this
    disorder which, according to ESME, are not helpful and might even induce
    relapse in some cases.



    ESME will encourage research leading to the accumulation of new knowledge
    and to a better understanding of the disease, and will endeavour to raise
    funding for biomedical research in, and education about, ME/CFS.



    Stavanger, Norway, June 13, 2009

    Launch Meeting ESME



    PD Dr. Liv Bode

    Prof. Dr. Med. Kenny De Meirleir

    Dr. Med. Derek Enlander

    Dr. Med. Ana Garcia Quintana

    Prof. Dr. Hanns Ludwig

    Prof. Dr. Med. Mária J. Molnár

    Prof. Dr. Bodil Norrild

    Prof. Dr. Med. Ola Didrik Saugstad

    Prof. Dr. Med. Babill Stray-Pedersen

    Prof. Dr. Med. Umberto Tirelli

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