Decent article. However, a desktop may be less practical for those who spend periods bedbound. I think ME/CFS is less "one size fits all" than...
I've often observed simplistic doctor thinking like this: profound loss of function + labs are normal = depression Because depression can cause...
Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan gave $75 million to San Francisco General Hospital in 2015....
The medical reviewer for the article, Kevin Martinez MD, is not listed on the medical reviewer team webpage. So there is no description of who he...
It was rewarding to hear Dr. Bateman acknowledge the improvements in UpToDate's ME/CFS content.
If UpToDate is any indication (Komaroff is editor), then the belief remains that GET is helpful for a subset of CFS patients. Even though PACE has...
This is going to take a few years, unfortunately. Baby steps at this point. Kaiser Permanente NorCal doctors were offered a ME/CFS training (not...
Good suggestion. Thanks. :)
Interesting. I didn’t get a report from the cardiologist, but would certainly be interested to see one. Following the bicycle exercise, it took...
Good to hear. I was also thinking about the numerous Lightning Process "recovery" YouTube videos, of which there is apparently no shortage.
Go a step further and ban YouTube videos that are little more than ads for speculative medical treatments.
Hopefully, Pendergrast's views on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome have improved since 2008. July 2008 Health Letter-Energy Crisis...
UpToDate.com refers to neurasthenia as a historical term for ME/CFS. This is what doctors reference. Shocking really. Then again, Komaroff is the...
Came across this CME and recent Seattle medical conference presentation by Dr. Peng Thim Fam for the medical education company Pri-Med. I don't...
Selecting "New Circuit For This Site" in Tor Browser (under the "i" info button top left of browser window) is a bit faster than restarting, and...
Thanks for the article. Perhaps related to a request yesterday to return for yet another blood draw at Stanford. I don't know anything more,...
In the 1999, Komaroff delivered a presentation to the Medical Board of California, recommending GET and CBT for "CFS". It's still on their...
Komaroff is editor for UpToDate's ME/CFS section, which as recently as 2018 conflated ME/CFS with fatigue, failed to recognize the methodological...
Dr. Bell also writes in the same article that "not all children describe post-exertional malaise". Some only describe "activity limitation". And...
Dr. David Bell writes that in pediatric ME/CFS, "The cognitive symptoms from age 3 to age 12 are indistinguishable from attention deficit...
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