Changes in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

In Minneapolis, parents must figure that out, while teachers face half-empty classrooms as students stay home for fear of abduction.

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Carl Sjöström, läkaren som intervjuades i Svensk förening för allmänmedicins podd SFAMpen om funktionella symtom, skriver nu i Läkartidningen på samma tema tillsammans med kollegorna Arwa Josefsson…

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Large study suggests people’s genetics could ‘tip the balance’ on whether they would develop the illness Scientists have found the first robust evidence that people’s genes affect their chances of developing myalgic encephalomyelitis or chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), a mysterious and debilitating illness that has been neglected and dismissed for decades by many in the medical community. Early findings from the world’s largest study into the genetics of the condition pinpointed eight regions of the human genome that were substantially different in people with an ME/CFS diagnosis compared to those without the illness. Continue reading...

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Chronic fatigue syndrome is as physiological as a broken leg. ​We must learn all we can from this tragic case, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot