Trial By Error: David Putrino on New Nature Study of Long Covid Immune Profiling
By David Tuller, DrPH I’ve posted two past interviews with David Putrino (here and here) about long Covid, ME/CFS, and related issues. Dr Putrino, a neuroscientist and physical therapist, is director of rehabilitation innovation at the Mt Sinai Health System in New York. Early in the pandemic, he began seeing patients with prolonged symptoms following … Trial By Error: David Putrino on New Nature Study of Long Covid Immune Profiling Read More » (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - September 29, 2023 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized Iwasaki Long Covid nature Putrino vaccine injury Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: Media Notes – Hasan Presses Fauci on Long Covid; Rehmeyer on Psych Diagnoses; Washington Post Explores Backstory of Recent Study
By David Tuller, DrPH MSNBC anchor Mehdi Hasan can be a bulldog as an interviewer. He recently pressed Dr Anthony Fauci on the US government’s flat-footed response to the wave of long Covid cases. Dr Fauci came across as somewhat on the defensive and acknowledged that progress has been slow. He agreed that clinical trials … Trial By Error: Media Notes–Hasan Presses Fauci on Long Covid; Rehmeyer on Psych Diagnoses; Washington Post Explores Backstory of Recent Study Read More » (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - September 23, 2023 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized fauci mehdi hassan Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: An Interview with Yale ’ s Akiko Iwasaki
By David Tuller, DrPH Akiko Iwasaki, a professor of immunobiology at the Yale School of Medicine, is a leading investigator into long Covid and has recently been tapped to lead a new Center for Infection & Immunity. She was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2018, the National Academy of Medicine in 2019, … Trial By Error: An Interview with Yale’s Akiko Iwasaki Read More » (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - September 21, 2023 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized Akiko Iwasaki Long Covid Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: A Physiotherapist ’ s Guide to Understanding and Managing ME/CFS
By David Tuller, DrPH A new book, A Physiotherapist’s Guide to Understanding and Managing ME/CFS, has arrived at a timely moment. With so many long Covid patients being diagnosed with ME or ME/CFS, it is essential that physiotherapists—or physical therapists, in the US—grasp the essentials of the disease, and in particular the existence of post-exertional … Trial By Error: A Physiotherapist’s Guide to Understanding and Managing ME/CFS Read More » (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - September 19, 2023 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized book physical therapy physios for ME physiotherapy Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: My Talk at Cambridge Last October on “ Epidemiological Sleight-of-Hand: The Troubling Case of ‘ Medically Unexplained Symptoms'”
By David Tuller, DrPH I gave a talk at Cambridge University last October called “Epidemiological Sleight-of-Hand: The Troubling Case of ‘Medically Unexplained Symptoms.'” More accurately, I gave the same talk on two successive days—October 18th and 19th–because of video malfunctions on the first day. I thought I’d written a post about it, but when I … Trial By Error: My Talk at Cambridge Last October on “Epidemiological Sleight-of-Hand: The Troubling Case of ‘Medically Unexplained Symptoms'” Read More » (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - September 18, 2023 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized cambridge Medically unexplained symptoms MUS sleight-of-hand Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: Interview with Journalist Betsy Ladyzhets about NIH ’ s Flawed $1.2 Billion RECOVER Program for Long Covid
By David Tuller, DrPH Betsy Ladyzhets is an independent health, science and data journalist who has been covering the coronavirus pandemic, including long Covid. While serving as a journalism fellow at MuckRock, she co-wrote an investigative report for STAT, a well-known health and medical news site, about the US National Institutes of Health’s problem-plagued $1.2 … Trial By Error: Interview with Journalist Betsy Ladyzhets about NIH’s Flawed $1.2 Billion RECOVER Program for Long Covid Read More » (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - September 12, 2023 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized Ladyzhets NIH RECOVER program STAT Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: Letter to Journal about Inflated Claims of FND Prevalence
By David Tuller, DrPH I have spent some time trying to correct the record on the reported prevalence of functional neurological disorder (FND). As I have documented, leaders of the FND field have spent the last decade misrepresenting the findings of a seminal 2010 study, Stone et al, to claim that this diagnosis is the … Trial By Error: Letter to Journal about Inflated Claims of FND Prevalence Read More » (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - September 7, 2023 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized correction david perez FND functional neurological disorder neuroImage: clinical Source Type: blogs
How the Viruses Within Us Protect Us From Other Viruses
by Gertrud U. Rey Did you know that eight percent of the human genome consists of DNA sequences that are derived from retroviruses? These “endogenous retroviruses” (ERVs) represent concrete evidence for retroviral infections that occurred in our ancestors. Although ERVs have no viral activity, an accumulating body of evidence suggests that they are not entirely … How the Viruses Within Us Protect Us From Other Viruses Read More » (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - September 7, 2023 Category: Virology Authors: Gertrud U. Rey Tags: Basic virology Gertrud Rey adaptive immunity endogenous retrovirus ERV evolution herv HIV-1 HLA immune response innate immunity PAMP PRR receptor interference RIG-I TLR Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: Call for Retraction of Cochrane Review from Science For ME; Overview of Viral Persistence in Long Covid; Senators United on Long Covid
By David Tuller, DrPH Sometimes I just like to post about a few things that have caught my interest, for whatever reason. I keep meaning to do this more regularly. Science For ME calls on Cochrane to retract flawed exercise review The Science for ME (S4ME) forum has posted a petition on change.org requesting that … Trial By Error: Call for Retraction of Cochrane Review from Science For ME; Overview of Viral Persistence in Long Covid; Senators United on Long Covid Read More » (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - September 7, 2023 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized cochrane exercise review tim kaine Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: Just the Latest Gibberish from Professor Chalder
By David Tuller, DrPH I’ve said it before and will undoubtedly say it again. Trudie Chalder, King’s College London’s mathematically and factually challenged professor of cognitive behavior therapy (CBT), is a one-trick pony. She writes what is essentially the same bad paper based on the same unfounded assumptions over and over again. Her apparent professional … Trial By Error: Just the Latest Gibberish from Professor Chalder Read More » (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - September 4, 2023 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized CBT chalder inflammatory bowel disease Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: Professor Chris Ponting Discusses on DecodeME ’ s First Results
By David Tuller, DrPH Professor Chris Ponting is a geneticist at the University of Edinburgh. He is also the principal investigator for DecodeME, a genome wide association study. The DecodeME team recently published findings from more than 17,000 questionnaires it had collected from patients. I wrote about those findings in a post last week. In … Trial By Error: Professor Chris Ponting Discusses on DecodeME’s First Results Read More » (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - August 31, 2023 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized Chris Ponting DecodeME Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: DecodeME Team Describes Study Sample; The Atlantic ’ s Ed Yong Covers PEM; STAT Busts NIH ’ s Stumbling Long Covid Efforts
By David Tuller, DrPH DecodeME paper finds ME/CFS severity linked to being female, being older and being sick longer DecodeME is a high-profile genome-wide association study (GWAS) that is seeking to identify DNA differences between people with ME/CFS and those without it. To date, more than 17,000 people in the UK who report having been … Trial By Error: DecodeME Team Describes Study Sample; The Atlantic’s Ed Yong Covers PEM; STAT Busts NIH’s Stumbling Long Covid Efforts Read More » (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - August 24, 2023 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized Ed Yong STAT Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: Rapid Response to Anti-NICE Whine de Coeur; UK Government Seeks Input to Interim Delivery Plan for ME/CFS
By David Tuller, DrPH The Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry (JNNP) has finally published a cogent rapid response to its recent whine de coeur from the PACE authors and their cronies. In the commentary, the co-authors criticized eight purported “anomalies” they believe occurred during the process of developing the 2021 ME/CFS guideline from Britain’s … Trial By Error: Rapid Response to Anti-NICE Whine de Coeur; UK Government Seeks Input to Interim Delivery Plan for ME/CFS Read More » (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - August 15, 2023 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized JNNP MEAction UK UK ME/CFS plan Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: More on the Perplexing Dutch Claim that Null Results for Objective Measures of Physical Activity Are Irrelevant to Fatigue
By David Tuller, DrPH I recently wrote about a Dutch study published a few months ago in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases–“Efficacy of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Targeting Severe Fatigue Following Coronavirus Disease 2019: Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial.” The study, nick-named ReCOVer, found that unblinded trials relying on subjective outcomes will produce modestly positive reports … Trial By Error: More on the Perplexing Dutch Claim that Null Results for Objective Measures of Physical Activity Are Irrelevant to Fatigue Read More » (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - August 9, 2023 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized CBT CBT/GET dutch Knoop Long Covid Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: That Whine De Coeur about NICE ’ s Rejection of GET/CBT Regimen, and ME Action UK ’ s Disappearing Rebuttal
By David Tuller, DrPH On July 10th, the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry (JNNP) published what can only be called a whine de coeur from a bunch of academics and investigators on the wrong side of a dispute with Britain’s National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE). Their article was called “Anomalies in … Trial By Error: That Whine De Coeur about NICE’s Rejection of GET/CBT Regimen, and ME Action UK’s Disappearing Rebuttal Read More » (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - August 3, 2023 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized FND JNNP NICE Source Type: blogs
