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As far as I was aware treatment was always Rx, not Tx. I suspect this DTx is a newfangled babblebungle.

Except so far the vulture said the online CBT was crap!

As far as I can gather th King's electric CBT for IBS is considered a hot topic by healthcare market vultures. This raises the interesting question as towhead happens it is released as a commercial 'product', as seems be the idea. Will it make money hand over fist or are Dr Holt's tweets an...

Apparently it is Digital Therapeutic, i.e. an internet-based treatment.

I cannot quite make out what Holt is wanting to say.

Actually it is in the category '801-1000' i.e.nobody can be bothered to rank the bottom 200 'universities'. They are all bottom.

Yes, that is what read too.

No, I think she had ME and then had 'tethered cord' surgery (maybe for the ME) and now has Long Covid.

It appears to be. She appears to be a clinical psychologist with a 'Psy D' or doctorate in psychology. It also looks as if she may specialise in conditions like ME!

Better than psychoanalysis wouldn't you say?

I also note that the thesis and supervisor are not part of Edinburgh University but part of an institution that is ranked in the bottom 200 of all world universities. The worrying thing is that it seems to specialise in training nurses!

An interesting dialectic exercise. Of course capitalism is the root of all our suffering ;) - but mostly because it encourages billionaires to lounge on their yachts in Monaco while laid off workers go penniless. The job of professorial leader for research degrees presumably goes to some stooge...

Wkikpedia has a section on Lacan's 'legacy and criticism' which basically suggests that any legacy will be drivel in academic backwaters of no interest: In his introduction to the 1994 Penguin edition of Lacan's The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psycho-Analysis, translator and historian David...

You need a different figure, which at the moment I don't think anyone has. I think the figures so far are for preventing overt clinical disease. We need a figure for reduction in death rate and another for ruction in long term incapacity. Those figures would presumably need about 100 times as...

Or me. I agree with all the above. My impression is that things have got worse in the last four years or so in terms of allowing unthinking zealots to set up their stalls. Morgan clearly has something prove and doesn't mind if she treads on people. I was just hoping that the downward slope...

As @dave30th notes, the Morgan piece has been followed by something much more helpful. As far as I can see the Morgan piece was also removed from the online menu almost at once. Maybe Frances Ryan put in a word and maybe some editor is learning something.

The only prior trial with an interpretable numerical result is the blinded phase 2. The result of that was also negative. There was a suggestion of an effect at a different time point and phase three was undertaken to see if this was more than a chance finding. It was a chance finding. There is...

That does not look right but maybe I am not understanding and maybe it is irrelevant.

The third point is strong, but the first two are I think a bit off target or soft. I wish I could bring some influence to bear but I am not sure what is best. The study will be valueless, that is for sure. Hopefully that will be clear in due course. The issue is the insult to patients taking part.

@mat, you may not be aware but I am a professor of immunology and I know Carmen Scheibenbogen, Oystein Fluge and Olav Mella well. I have been involved in the investigation of B cell involvement in ME for over 5 years. The rituximab studies in Norway have nothing to do with finding antibodies in...