I believe they have data showing that patients who move more in some conditions, particularly surgery/injury in an otherwise healthy person, are...
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Looks like people could self-nominate. I don’t seem to know his handle, but Brian Vastag would be an excellent nominee for the Innovative Patient...
I can’t work out whether anyone could nominate ME Action, S4ME, or other actual patient orgs, but perhaps some of our research and/or clinical...
it’s towards the end of the day and I just saw this, perhaps there isn’t time and we should keep it in mind for next year. (Assuming it’s a...
Low NK cell function is seen in a lot of conditions. It’s not a specific biomarker. However, there’s precedent for using non-specific biomarkers...
I agree. Another example would be EDS. Genes have been found for many types (seven?), but some of those genes have an unclear relationship to...
I hope lots of doctors watch. When I saw the training video I was blown away by how good it is. Thanks for all the work that goes into this project!
The news article I cited at the end of post #6 gave the 270 number, spoke about how the real number could be larger, and also gave the other...
Do you mean the two peaks study? https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4189623/ Or are you looking for a statement from the PM? There’s...
I’m happy they’re looking for the teen peak, but do we know whether NASN or University of Minnesota knows anything about how to diagnose and...
Terribly unethical and yes, abusive.
One of the comments points to this article, which says that people may still have something to say about a paper outside their field of expertise...
Thanks. @JaimeS for looking things up and for sharing my impatience with the “oh it’s deconditioning” story. My doctor is new to me and generally...
Hand grip strength and other muscle testing (yes, even “lift against my hand”... seems ok must be normal—even from a doctor who doesn’t normally...
A lot of clinicians will ask the patient to squeeze their hand and I have always wondered about the reliability of that. There’s also a device...
Sure :) There’s a test that can show how much is liver, intestine, bone, or placental. It’s called alkaline phosphatase isozyme. (There are some...
oh no. Thanks for saying the name of someone who would be there. Hoping for best outcome
So I have this new lab result, a mildly high alkaline phosphatase (ALP). My doctor ran some tests, and thinks that because she was able to trace...
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