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I think Professor @Brian Hughes is someone well informed and who writes well on this subject in books, blogs and published papers. I don't recall...
Well done to the Sheffield group - if they can hire a director, they are clearly a well organised group already.
If the problem of unblinded trials with subjective outcome measures were really examined and eliminated by all medical and psychological research...
If I remember its content correctly, I think Jonathan Edwards' Expert Testimony to the NICE ME/CFS review covers this well:...
I remember some years ago the MEA produced an index of Charles Shepherd's medical articles across years of MEA magazines, with the idea people...
I suspect it's not so much what is it about Covid that triggers ME/CFS, as what is it about any viral infection that triggers ME/CFS. A lot of...
Isn't the problem that the actual minutes of the meeting haven't been made public, including a copy of the new Articles of Association, and...
I quite often microwave in a mug rather than using the kettle.
I thought the MEA research fund was intended for biomedical studies. Epidemiology seems a poor choice, especially now with such variation likely...
Some quotes: So not 'randomly assigned to the treatment'. They were paying customers, not research subjects. So most very short duration of Long...
Recent ones included a fully online one due to the pandemic in 2021 and 2022. Some of us on the forum attended the 2022 one free as officially...
Basically it seems they did a series of telephone interviews spread over a few months, not recorded, with the interviewer asking prompt questions...
I don't know how accurate the Vivosmart is on sleep, but my series of Fitbits over the years have all been completely crap at working out when I'm...
Er, what behavioural aspects?
I earlier commented that ME/CFS Science might sound too much like Science for ME. I said I would consult the committee. There were no objections,...
If they were randomly assigned to the treatment, that implies another group were not assigned to the treatment. I see no mention of them in the...
@bicentennial I don't understand your post. Can you give a link to the information about the ME Society?
I think it's possible Neil Riley has done some very useful work over the years behind the scenes for the MEA. But nobody can be good at...
I had to look that one up. Seems to be a synonym of sceptic.
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