This is the core of all EBM approaches in an area that is a research wasteland, its not specific to the IOM but the entire methodology. It could...
We are looking at the claim, not at objective evidence, even for CFS rather than ME. For ME GET is clearly contraindicated by hard physiological...
Bipsers must go. PS Signed.
Umm, medical science? Science, this lot?
I would trust a Medium before many of the claimed experts in the NHS, and I don't even believe in psychic advice. Its getting to be more of an...
Its a problem in a review, but not really a problem. They use off-label but otherwise standard treatments, just like in most diseases. These are...
Signed. They are not. This is a common misinterpretation of evidence based methods. Doctor experience is rank 5 evidence (on most scales) and so...
I think many BPS researchers who are not hard core believers probably have issues due to the silo effect, they research and pay attention to their...
Sigh, yes, they don't get it and think you are making it up. Two months without fatigue but still very limited energy was an eye opener for me....
Stanford is planning to replicate the Japanese findings with even more sensitive testing. They are also planning to validate their earlier finding...
One of the issues with Lyme disease is that ticks carry many more pathogens than Lyme. New ones are discovered from time to time. So while the...
We see studies from time to time that identify CFS and ME subgroups. I would like to see a reasonably powered study that looks for all those...
First thing to do on Netflix is downvote.
Justice occurs because millions work hard to make it happen. Its not the natural state of the world.
This is my main advocacy concern with promoting unproven treatments. I have no issues with people experimenting, provided they are aware of the...
Some doctors have a secondary gain by ignoring us because otherwise things would be too difficult for them, the poor dears.
To this day doctors often advise migraine and gout patients to stay away from red wine and cheese, in the one case for amines and the other...
It sounds to me like patients are pushing themselves harder, and with ME that is probably not sustainable.
It is not clear that more than a small subset with mono or post viral fatigue have ME. From what we know this is likely to be 10% or less.
Any severe patient with their typical symptoms would find just getting to aquatic exercise an unwinnable marathon. Maybe if they were brought...
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