All this sounds eerily familiar. And the medical profession seems to be funnelling people into unproductive psychological counselling etc. I...
Excellent idea. If many people develop ME/CFS after this epidemic, it will be much harder for the BPS lobby to claim it's all due to false illness...
But these patients were not experiencing spontaneous recovery. They were mildly improved at best and as Trish pointed out the results were...
Yup, a 'scientific' seal of approval of sorts. That would be really scary and harmful.
Ok so they were "mild-to-moderate" not mild. The subgroup of responders was doing 3,600 steps per day on average before the treatment. That's...
It's hard to know what to make of this. On the one hand, we know that this therapy has been around for, what, 20 years and that thousands of ME...
We've been down this road before with open label rituximab studies before the blinded RCT showed it was trending toward being worse than useless....
Interesting topic but uninformative abstract.
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Useful to know, though I don't recall anyone pushing this particular hypothesis.
Sickly people with chronic illnesses are likely to have sickly children, nothing surprising there. Why does our society have to psychologise...
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Supermarket here in Ireland actually had staff at the entrance only letting in people in batches every 45 minutes. Absolute panic and chaos. I'm...
I used to be in the "sick but never sick camp" for almost a decade. A few years ago, coinciding with an improvement in my overall ME/CFS, a cold...
[MEDIA] Videos like this are popping up on social media where Wuhan sounds like a zombie movie. Don't know if it's fake news but if it's real it...
Yes, and the problem is worsening. I can't tell if it's due to ME or the fact that I haven't done any writing in so many years due to doing...
Interesting thread on chinese plumbing and sewage: [MEDIA] Would explain why so many videos have emerged on social media of authorities welding...
Useful test. (If you're studying 90 year olds on a dozen meds, with dementia and multiple medical comorbidities.)
The expansion of the CBT lobby into medical illnesses like schizophrenia (with disastrous consequences for patients who require medical treatment...
IV saline has no long-term effect on the human body. I don't see how it could help produce apparent improvements and even remissions 6 months out.
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