Monday, November 9, 2009

THE PACE TRIAL AND THE MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL

Anonymous: 'Will the charity Action for ME (whose only members in law are the executive, everyone else is merely a subscriber to their magazine)now stop funding only psychological research into ME that uses the discredited Oxford criteria to select patients?

The PACE trial (part funded by AfME) - why it is one of the worst scandals in medical history: ....'

3 comments:

  1. Prof Peter White (one of the psychiatrists in charge of the PACE trial that AfME part fund) is advising Bill Reeves to start CBT & GET Trials in the USA at the same time that the Belgium Health Authority are binning them and describing these treatments as unethical and potentially harmful!

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  2. The 25% M.E. Group for the severely affected have called for the PACE trial and also the FINE trial (also part funded by AfME and run by a psychologist specialising in hypochondria) to be suspended.

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