PS looks like Gao et al have run some quick clinical trials with chloroquine in 100 patients in 10 hospitals in China and are reporting positive...
Yes, lockdown ASAP would have been hard to fault. What do you think about the Moderna mRNA vaccine? Isn't that a realistic hope for a vaccine in...
Well there must be something in it, ribavirin and interferon beta have been "under investigation" for coronavirus since 2013 and the ECDC say they...
I have been googling and thought people might be interested to know there are drugs which can be used on SARS-COV-2. Ribavirin and interferon...
Two issues here. One is definitions, sickness behaviour is caused by the illness affecting the nervous system, its not about the affect of...
... and zen !
I think proper palliative care for PWME should acknowledge the emotional aspects of ME. I dont think denial is viable as a long term strategy....
I want to add that I think the sickness ME causes does result in behavioural changes which have emotional disposition at their root, aka sickness...
I wonder what the data on narcolepsy is in the same population, particularly in relation to ME. My thinking being that if narcolpesy is autoimmune...
Yes, interesting point, I dont have an axe to grind either way over adjuvants myself but notice it is becoming a hot topic again considering the...
If I understand correctly, according to the description of methods, this data has no controls to assess diagnostic biases. I think ME is...
I came across an example today of how limited computer modelling of sequence affinity is, therefore how incomplete a foundation it is for...
IMHO We need multiple labs trying to identify the blood factor which is why I backed the Prusty fundraiser and hope the OMF will do their own...
This is great and deserves as much exposure as it can get. This study from Professor Leonard Jason et al is invaluable because through common...
TWiV (This Week in Virology), the same blog David Tuller writes for about ME, run by Vincent Racaniello, has been very informative about this...
Can'o'worms. This paper is predicated on speculative computation based guesswork about the possibility that HPV vaccine proteins could mimic...
I am a bit slow on the uptake sometimes but I have just realised this paper has a reference to the 2015 systematic review of cytokine responses...
I just want to clarify my last is about the discussion we are having here and not a validation of the approach of these authors. Its obvious after...
My guess would be that hypervigilance could also be a behavioural adaptation to being ill, yes it could be to avoid apnea or hypothermia-like...
I have slept on it and have further criticisms, which are my personal opinion. The first is the lack of empirical data, since the study relies on...
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