Ernst is generally quite skeptical and scathing of alt-med and sloppy methodology.
Yeah nah, it's just a mis-quote. Exactly. The study found no evidence of "suggestibility", so this is a classic example of authors claiming the...
Perhaps we should start labelling it as fools-gold-standard. A diversion about fool's gold has been moved here
Yes, this is more in like with what I expect - not figures of 30%+
Not many. Some people latch on the finding of low salivary cortisol in mornings, but those people don't understand that there are confounding...
Figure 1 shows that the claim of placebo benefits for CRP and ESR is probably just a combination of noise and regression to the mean. Several of...
The problem with CPETs, especially for obstructive lung diseases is that most medical practitioners and exercise physiologists are obsessed with...
So protection against symptomatic infection is dependent on having antibodies against the receptor binding domain of the virus. If the RBD is...
The relative transmissibility is likely due to immune escape in vaccinated/prior infected individuals (or a biased cohort), rather than being way...
That and seasonal variation of parental behaviour.
There haven't been any 2 day CPET studies of cystic fibrosis or severe heart disease, so I'm not sure where you got that idea.
I think patients with a similar magnitude of fatigue as ME/CFS patients would have similar 2-day CPET results.
Isn't this simply a case of misdiagnosis?
The problem is that few meaningful factors can actually be gleaned from medical records. Combined with any and all prolonged symptoms being...
Are they including patient experts in this round, or is this a case of the blind leading the blind? (so to speak, no offence to blind people)...
You are missing a vital detail - it should also be highly relevant to patients quality of life. No one cares if a therapy has an effect on...
The case definitions and subsequent research always has some degree of circularity involved. What is chosen to include and exclude in the...
Moderna is planning on supplying polyvalent vaccines at some stage. We'd already have them if the respective health authorities in each country...
Yes, the isocapnia phase (though the VE/VCO2 graph) isn't perfectly flat even in healthy people) is normal (and this is why it is nonsense to...
Both can be true.
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