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Merged thread FDA warns consumers about the dangerous and potentially life threating side effects of Miracle Mineral Solution The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is warning consumers not to purchase or drink a product sold online as a medical treatment due to a recent rise in reported...

What would it cost though, I don't imagine it would be included in any normal coverage ?

I really wanted something like that crazy chair, what I put together instead is reclining chair with a laptop table each side for using a mouse, keyboard on my lap and a 40 inch monitor which allows text big enough to read even when fully reclined, not quite as fancy but it's working out pretty...

There are relatively few illnesses for which nutritional supplements have been shown to be of any significant benefit so is there any good reason to expect that supplements for ME should be effective ?

There are a couple of reviews of ECCH services here, amusingly the second one complains they don't even offer CBT and GET as treatments :laugh: https://www.careopinion.org.uk/opinions/422141 https://www.careopinion.org.uk/opinions/253714

They should have used the steering committee defence

It's an interesting question at what point do you consider someone no longer meets the diagnostic criteria, is the correct diagnosis now mild ME/CFS, in remission, recovered with the odd flare up... If you can manage a 10k run do you still meet the 'Postexertional neuroimmune exhaustion'...

Could we look at something like missing data to check if they line up, for example if all of the 52 week scores are missing from the first set there should be a reasonably high likelihood that the 52 week scores would also be missing from the second set. Giving it a quick glance over that...

I got that too, try this

The news has even made its way to some tech sites https://gizmodo.com/researchers-say-they-ve-created-a-blood-test-for-chroni-1834421604 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19831932

Feature in i News today about Merryn My daughter, 21, who died weighing five-and-a-half stone, had ME on her death certificate – yet some still say it’s not real The mother of Merryn Crofts believes attitudes about the disease haven't changed since her daughter's death two years ago

Looks to be a variation of what is more generally called Low-level laser therapy, from Wikipedia Low-level laser therapy (LLLT) is a form of medicine that applies low-level (low-power) lasers or light-emitting diodes (LEDs) to the surface of the body. Whereas high-power lasers are used in laser...

There are more details on the gofundme page.

The graphs look pretty persuasive to me, I just really hope we get a breakthrough that works out and not another repeat of XMRV. Do we know anything about how well controlled it was such as were the measurements made blind and all samples collected and handled in the same way ? *I see they...

I'm going to hold off judgement until we know how significant the result was and how many parameters were measured in search of a significant looking one.

Seems the group has previously published a fair amount of ME related papers. The controversies section of the Wikipedia page is an interesting read.

There is a thread already on the cover story here https://www.s4me.info/threads/mystery-illnesses-reveal-the-power-of-our-minds-to-influence-health-new-scientist.8932/ The other one is just a shortish letter without much substance.

Per capita that is 3x US

I think outside of the UK it might be more a just case of people just not being that invested in the cause or less aware of it as it affects them less directly. I mean there has to be plenty more than 70 people in the US who could very comfortably donate.