I suspect the reason that GRADE does not allow for the possibility that a study is so bad as to be useless is that it wants to be attractive to...
It's impossible to have serious fatigue and not have reduced activity levels. The BPS people are telling nonsense again.
[ATTACH] The perpetuating factors of fatigue according to BPS people. It looks like thinly veiled patient blaming. Or at least sets the stage for...
I think antioxidants are somewhat helpful for me.
It's a convenient narrative to create or justify inequality in healthcare.
My guess is that higher socioeconomic status affects the ability to obtain a diagnosis, in particular when the problem is not easily diagnosable.
From what I understood he thinks that herpesviruses in bone marrow, and their effect on the cells that develop there, are key.
I can understand how it would be hard to contain excitement if something promising was found, and how people need to believe in the possibility of...
I know that state of only being able to listen to another person talking to me and responding with yes or no, and not being capable of properly...
I didn't experience Schadenfreude but felt like healthy people were getting a glimpse of what it means to be chronically ill. Just a glimpse...
Do we know if genome analysis was part of the intramural study?
I can feel clearly when the blood drains away from the head during certain movements. And also how good it feels when certain exercises improve...
My experience is that most of the mental health harm caused comes from the theoretical framework that propose that distress is independent of...
Here is a study that I came across that investigated the genetics of eosinophilic esophagitis, which can cause severe difficulty eating. A feeding...
If you drag it out long enough, you can say that it's time to cancel the project because it has gone on long enough without progress. ;)
I think Wessely tried to distance himself from the PACE trial when he understood that the data was showing CBT/GET did not work.
Merged thread Is low dose naltrexone effective in ME/CFS due to an effect on the vascular system?...
My guess is that they envision ME as an attempt to avoid the stigma of mental illness by people who in reality have a mental illness, and that...
I think it's unsafe to assume that PEM is only found in one distinct syndrome that we call ME. We don't know enough about PEM in other illnesses...
Is this an unexpected result? Is the limitation not usually in cardiovascular fitness rather than in the muscles?
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