BBC Radio 4 Program broadcast today. As well as Anti NMDA Receptor encephalitis I think there was mention of GAD antibodies too? " I am not...
Oh dear looks like WHO may have legitimised this ---- let's face it, experience has shown that these "systematic scoping review" are just...
Reply to the IQWiG report, by Prof. Matthias Kohl, a professional statistician (DeepL translation): "Benefit assessment of CBT and GET (Section...
From the paper: "After each online session, participants were emailed a link to complete their weekly post-intervention surveys. Participants were...
Yea but we have technology like GWAS now and that stuff's only going to get cheaper/more accessible. So while yesterday it was difficult to see...
Laughed when I read this: "My bet is on inability of the review group to agree on a protocol." - Trish Probably nailed it; the key thing is to...
OK not keeping up as usual! Just Googled and found this* --- "---established her own consultancy business providing evidence synthesis services to...
Yea but it's truly pathetic i.e. it doesn't take much effort to include objective outcome criteria - examples suggested here are things like...
Nailed it. Worrying - isn't it?
I actually think Jonathan explained all this very well --- things like EDS were simply the creation of his colleagues --- Being able to pan you...
Entirely agree i.e. the problems with SMILE include the design being flawed i.e. unblinded and used subjective outcome criteria --- in other words...
I've only skimmed a few comments here. If you have an individual saying that the LP helped them then I think it's entirely reasonable to...
Yea but check out Simons comments re migraine GWAS study - gene identified is a recognised successful drug target (50% of patient population). So,...
Another thought. "Target" any female politician who is a decision maker e.g. if it's a (female) government minister/junior minister/prime minister...
Apologies for forgetting the punch line but I recall a friend describing a scientist/academic who was really high profile during a food "scare" in...
I wouldn't go after the authors of bogus studies like this - I'd go after any publicly accountable body that funds it. E.g. I get really annoyed...
Well if it's so wonderful then no doubt it will all be confirmed by monitoring activity levels pre and post intervention -- with sufficient time...
One thing that comes to mind, re the migraine study, is that it had (?) a much more homogeneous population than ME/CFS (correct?). E.g. 50% of...
Yea you can see from Simon's post above, re the migraine study [identifying the CGRP pathway], that an ME/CFS GWAS was a good idea - Jonathan...
Simon refers to a large GWAS study (migraine) think this is it 100K cases* - and I suspect migraine is easier to characterise/has larger...
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