Perhaps this paper by Nacul et al helps in arguing against the Oxford criteria, How have selection bias and disease misclassification undermined...
@Alvin, yes, but, whatever the authors actually did, PACE was anyway a bust scientifically in so many ways that we've an embarrassment of riches...
According to the original paper, http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140673611600962
The Oxford Criteria has a number of exclusions, for example, anaemia and schizophrenia. Presumably 1088 people had conditions which prevented...
Oxford excludes "proven organic brain disease", so does not actually exclude PwME with neurological symptoms. The short paper introducing the...
I wonder who the seven other doctors are who signed the complaint. While I don't agree with all of Sarah Myhill's medical ideas and approaches, I...
Presumably the NICE review will be looking at the scientific and medical evidence around managing and treating ME, rather than issues of...
Actually it appears that 'low fat' does mean something, in Europe at least,...
I don't know about this latest initiative, but in general I have got the impression over a number of years that AfME waffle on a lot, but rarely...
I'm not convinced it makes much difference. Regular (organic) yoghurt has around 4.5% fat, low fat (organic) around 1.8%. One would have to eat...
Actually this article appears to be a mangled version of this one, from last June,...
As I understand it, CB was strongly involved in helping to get NHS services for ME/CFS in Kent. From the S&K Soc website, Mario...
It's not an elected position, so Colin Barton is not voted in and cannot be voted out.
Thank you for your reply. It was partly the dose level of the sodium dichloroacetate I was wondering about, given the potential for toxicity.
I get this too, with any excess mental exertion. It feels as if my whole brain is feverish. For me it's part of (cognitive) PEM. I vaguely...
@ME/CFS Would you mind letting us know the patent number?
[MEDIA] There are levels within levels within levels...
@MErmaid, I am quite puzzled; I feel we are somehow talking about different things, or at cross purposes, and not quite connecting. I certainly...
I'm not sure of the relevance of thirty years ago, in this context, but the idea of building a phone that would also play music was a very...
Money and other resources (time, number of quality researchers etc) must be part of the answer. But engineers are mostly solving well-defined,...
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