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  1. TiredSam

    High-fidelity discrete modeling of the HPA axis: a study of regulatory plasticity in biology (2018) Sedghamiz et al.

    I know it's only a subjective n=1 anecdote, but I sometimes find a sip of water can be rather restorative. Perhaps homeopaths should concentrate on marketing the benefits of water rather than the benefits of ingredients that are no longer in the water - at least that way they wouldn't have to...
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    NHS demands legal costs from failed homeopathy challenge

    This is worth reading just for the following:
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    United Kingdom: The Royal Society of Medicine

    Why did this post make me think of Jimmy Saville?
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    OMF: Chiara Ferragni offering to donate to good causes

    Sorry, is one of you Chiara Ferragni? If so, which one?
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    Who was it that said being in support groups leads to poor outcome?

    It's appalling that a bunch of psychs can't tell the difference. I have a phobia, and the way I react when it is triggered is fairly unmistakeably phobic. But if my wife says "shall we go for a walk?" and I say "No, don't really feel up to it at the moment" that's a completely different kettle...
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    Mirror: ME sufferer spent seven years in bed but she's now conquered the highest mountain in Britain for charity

    Any patients who don't respond to rhubarb will be taken into custardy.
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    Mirror: ME sufferer spent seven years in bed but she's now conquered the highest mountain in Britain for charity

    Genius - ask the patient to fill in a questionnaire about how they feel about rhubarb. Smack them with rhubarb. Ask them to fill in a questionnaire about how they feel about rhubarb again. That'll give you plenty of data to claim something about rhubarb with, and that's before you've even...
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    Who was it that said being in support groups leads to poor outcome?

    Anyone mind if I replace the word "groups" with "medical professionals"? Still waiting for those secondary gains. Mind you, it's only been 4.5 years ... The Wesselydrivel from the book above shows the typical reaction to criticism of a certain kind of psychoquack - just diagnose and label the...
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    A new kind of spray is loaded with microscopic electronic sensors

    If they'd said 1D they might have had a point.
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    Red-brown speckles on palm of hands and fingers

    I'm afraid I haven't, it just keeps causing problems all the time, and I haven't found a solution. Again, I'm afraid I don't. I say left when I mean right, right when I mean left, or sometimes get lucky and pick the right one. The person I'm giving directions to turns right and is surprised to...
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    Ron Davis's trypanosome 'signature' finding (IIMER conference 2018)

    Just for balance, I've never been outside western Europe, so ME must have made a special journey to come and get me.
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    Red-brown speckles on palm of hands and fingers

    Well here's an interesting business - same finger, a few days later: They appear to be rising to the surface. The one on the right is still under the skin with halo. The middle one is on the surface. The one on the left has I suspect broken through, and the bigger crater above is where 2 were...
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    Mirror: ME sufferer spent seven years in bed but she's now conquered the highest mountain in Britain for charity

    When I read that I thought that was what cured her and was looking forward to trying the Weetabix and custard diet to see if it did anything for me. Love custard. Well if someone can get away with marketing that pile of horseshit I reckon I stand a chance with my new cure - TSCT* She was...
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    Red-brown speckles on palm of hands and fingers

    Sorry I probably wasn't too clear. I don't have blisters as in @strategist's photo, I have brown speckles just under the skin, which do not cause the surface to raise or blister. Neither do they rise to the surface, they just hang around where they are, appearing and disappearing. I also tried...
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    Red-brown speckles on palm of hands and fingers

    Well until I find an explanation it remains "just one of those things" for me too.
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    Red-brown speckles on palm of hands and fingers

    When they started to appear I was intrigued also, but I couldn't find anything by googling, and my skin doctor (who I see every six months since I had a basaliom removed) said "I don't know". I paraphrase, what he actually said was "blah blah stress blah blah". Just fingertips for me. Might...
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