Any tightening of CoI or other policy at Cochrane still needs to be accompanied by the will to enforce that policy if there is to be any...
Flottorp doesn't seem to be aware that people reporting benefits is not at all the same category of consideration as people reporting harm....
It seems too that even if a good placebo effect is achieved for the patient -- because it is a placebo the effects will not be long lasting. So...
I think I'd also like to add a little anecdote to illustrate symptom focussing and symptom severity issues. I have had tinnitus for 50+ years....
I think what the study authors lack for this study to be meaningful is -- a personal experience of long term pain or other distressing symptoms....
I didn't know that. Having NICE refer to ME feels like a bit of a sea change.
Usual caveat about my limited knowledge and understanding. If they really wanted to confirm that activation of immune pathways were happening...
Canada:...
Interestingly, I think a case could be made for including a reference to this wiki page on the psychosomatic medicine wiki page or perhaps the...
C-L Psychiatry to the rescue. However did the world manage to turn without this revolutionary innovation. Pretty soon this CLP centre of the...
Whatever else there is to say regarding nomenclature of this illness it seems to me that COVID-19 has made abundantly clear that people outside...
On the face of it this looks like it could provide important clues to information essential to understanding what's happening in ME. I hope it's...
A few questions are starting to occur as I think about this study. There have been a fair few studies on adolescents by TC et al if I'm not...
Is it time now that we can say that part of the definition of ME is that pushing exertion levels makes illness worse*? So anyone who claims to...
Is this the final paper to be expected from this trial (i have a dim memory of FoI requests being denied because further papers were still to be...
Apologies if this has already been posted here or on another thread. This is an October 2019 version of TC's PPS:...
Yes, I see. Thanks for that response. This is the stuff of nightmares.
I went looking for the documentary @Invisible Woman referred to above. I didn't find it but found this article from 2017 in Multiple Sclerosis...
I noticed that there have been a few 8/10 - 10/10 reviews of this series of late raising the overall rating by .3 A few reveiwers enjoyed it for...
Thanks for the reply @Tom Kindlon Sharing on the platforms you mentioned is always a good thing but I was thinking of (and I have no skill in...
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