I hate to tell you this @rvallee but I promoted ChatGPT and it came up with this at number 7. (You are a health psychologist. Propose ten...
This is a substantial result: that an entire field is suspect, with selective outcome reporting in a whopping nine out of ten papers. It’s...
All these years and the NHS still can’t deliver a workshop that gives the name of the illness and the management strategy as set out by NICE....
That’s why what is needed is to expand the programme to more patients…
It is a world-beating intervention - at achieving its purpose, which is to reduce demand on the NHS by getting people to stop bothering doctors....
Lots of good stuff in this paper. None of it surprising to S4ME members but still good to see it in the BMJ’s Journal of Medical Ethics. Also...
To state the obvious, MEA are not legally obliged to retain the minutes for Nov 2014 past Nov 2024 (ten years). But they would be well advised to...
I get myoclonus in any/all of my limbs when crashing while severe. I had moderate ME for many years and never had that symptom. When the myoclonus...
So they started with a group of patients the researchers believed to have “central sensitisation”, then performed tests which showed that fewer...
New year, new blog title?… For me - absolutely you should change the name, and I’m excited you’ve opened up this conversation. The current name...
I’ve been thinking about Cochrane’s motivations in cancelling the update. Of course in a way it doesn’t matter. This is S4ME, and our focus is on...
That’s a lot of words to say the author is worried patients might doubt the efficacy of what he has to offer. Maybe he should get some support...
Any further nonsense about remarks being actionable should elicit a reference to Arkell v. Pressdram. Hopefully the current regime has now gone...
Explaining why this paper is ‘not even wrong’ feels like it would make me dumber. Perhaps that is analogous to why interception may be dulled in...
Some of Doctors with ME’s content has also been idiosyncratic. MEA needs to become judicious, professional, evidence-based and responsive to...
The compulsion to lie flat is unlike anything else and impossible to ignore. It feels like it is an issue of blood supply to the brain. I have...
This question relies on an unproven model of hoe PEM works. For those lucky enough to have care arrangements that make intensive resting possible,...
“The MEA cannot listen only to the few who are baying for blood, or only to the many who welcomed Neil's editorial.” If true, that is very...
Cold water immersion should be filed along with dark chocolate and green tea. My N=1 like Kitty’s is that it’s a stimulant. It temporarily masks...
Or a different job.
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