Royal Free 1955

@rfh1955.bsky.social

ME/CFS archive. For education, not profit. Researched since 2011 by @continuitytweets.bsky.social & @ciaranj_farrell. Reposts not necessarily endorsements. No art, emoji etc. https://rfh1955.blogspot.com/

Medicine's ongoing failure to deal with Long Covid did not begin in 2020. It happened decades before that. Nothing has changed since, all of this has been and continues to be intentional. There is something deeply wrong with parts of this industry, in how they deal with their own failures.

Adam@abrokenbattery.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Intro to a 1993 documentary on #MECFS When medicine doesn’t understand an illness, patients are often mistreated. New discoveries challenge existing beliefs, but in the meantime, for those suffering, life can be a living hell.

Pension letter today, short because there aren't many numbers and they are small. I retired on 9-Feb-2026 age 59 (due to disability, the #LongCovid life-upside-down mess). Very strange feeling. Cash runs out in 7 years, state pension age in 2033, but hey ho for now. Housebound & fractured pelvis.

Spence in heather, out to pasture.

"…pharmaceutical firms want to await a concrete biomarker that could serve as a clinical trial end point before putting any resources toward long COVID studies, but it’s not possible to find such a metric without more studies." They need proof. We need hope. #Medsky #LongCOVID

Long COVID studies stymied by pharma’s lack of cooperation

Academic researchers want to repurpose drugs for the condition. Manufacturers aren’t supplying them

cen.acs.org