True, there has been an awful lot of ME news that they have ignored over the years when it does not suit their BPS heroes.
I see it as a positive that some 35% appear to be ‘recovered’, though this is much less than the general medical opinion of most children...
What will be interesting is who the Science Media Centre roll out on Wednesday morning. In the past as well as the usual suspects they usually...
A number of studies of ME, eg PACE, found improvement on long term follow up in their ‘no treatment’ controls. Unless you eliminate bias and have...
My understanding is that it is illegal under the Trade Descriptions Act in the UK, and that this was formally recognised following a court case....
Also the issue of how soon post treatment this intervention takes place is relevant, as cancer treatment may impair the immune system, leaving...
It is suggestive of an underlying biomedical condition, but not proof. People who believe they can fly without mechanical aids (eg aeroplanes)...
I think it is permissible to argue, that the fact the aetiology of ME is not understood is not a justification for using psychological and...
This doesn’t seem to have prevented decades of mistreatment of other conditions, including ME.
Given the study only looked at self reported measures how can they say ‘explicit improvement in … energy level’, especially given an explicit...
Although my above comment is perhaps stating the obvious, my intention was to convey the idea that much/most BPS research into ME/CFS has never...
I have no specific knowledge re the NICE guidelines, though usually such embargoes end in the very early hours of the morning to allow the first...
Such a definition is in effect asserting that all the symptoms of ME/CFS are ‘impairment of functioning’ resulting from ‘persistent fatigue’....
Also the inverse should be asked, why does absolutely everyone who has ever had a substantial illness not develop idiopathic chronic fatigue as...
I don’t know how widespread this is and it may be out of date now, but the Sheffield CFS/ME did not accept referrals unless a consultant had...
Though obviously also part of our cultural obsession with formal exercise, this also reflects how modern medicine approaches rehabilitation. We...
Possibly a red herring, but … Surely ‘exercise’ is an activity, but an activity that is primarily undertaken for its own sake rather than for an...
If handled properly it is not unacceptable for researchers to say we got the design of our investigation wrong, and we believe that an alternative...
As we are in ‘the silly season’ who knows what will happen next week. With most of the political apparatus on its Summer holidays, media outlets...
Also, if the previous evidence for GET/CBT was so convincing, why was the PACE study with government funding needed to provide an unequivocal...
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