I suspect that is the case, but also patients in Fluge et al were likely more severely affected with limited mobility.
Does anyone know if patients in the placebo group got active premedication before their main course of ‘Rituximab’, or were all their meds fakes?...
I agree, but also worth noting that the placebo wasn’t a dummy pill in this study: it was 500ml IV saline, this could conceivably provide some...
Haha! Wonko, no!... I don’t think that’s quite true. They’re not sadists trying to inflict pain on vulnerable individuals. The problem is they...
If what this patient says is correct and they were diagnosed with a new onset EBV, what is known as glandular fever in the UK or mononucleosis in...
If you register I think you can view two free articles a week. Or, sometimes the ME Association reprints a full copy of newspaper articles on...
https://newscommercial.co.uk/brands/the-sunday-times/style I guess 'Style' is predominantly a magazine marketed at women, although, apparently,...
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2019/03/22/single-course-antibiotics-may-cause-irreversible-damage-crucial/ Taking just a single course of...
I don't think he said it directly... From @Lucibee's transcript, this is what Sharpe said: "These journals – journals like Health Psychology –...
Yeah, I feel the same. Wessely's tweets seemed boarderline incomprehensible on first reading. "It's about the cap badge of the interventions and...
I don't have sight of the phase III rituximab trial data, but I thought what was remarkable about the early work was that when patient reported...
Thanks info. I agree these sorts of activity diaries and so on are incredibly tedious to plan and keep. Are we saying that there was more...
Well said. And on what I think is a related point, I believe we used to have more specialist/ consultant grade 'general physicians' to whom...
I was wondering if it would be worth lodging a complaint with the Independent Press Standards Organisation, this is the new regulatory body that...
I think the RBC deformability might need to be considered separately, as the “there’s something in the blood” theory still applies where plasma...
I had a listen this morning. I think she means well but is overly dogmatic. Anyway, I just wanted to pick up on one or two things. One was...
https://www.epsom-sthelier.nhs.uk/download.cfm?doc=docm93jijm4n9647.pdf&ver=23810 At the top of page 2.
"Medical investigations show that there is no disease cause for these physical symptoms, they occur as a direct result of inactivity and prolonged...
Oh dear, this isn’t good news at all... Bless Dr Bansal, he was a good man who helped put my GP on the right footing. I heard he will now be...
So, if I understand correctly, and as others here have alluded to: 1. The mitochondria themselves aren't broken: good. These researchers took...
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