Well this makes a lot of sense. People with explained illnesses are much more in control of their lives than people with idiopathic ones. They are...
I read the whole paper. It describes the effect of ME on my social life very accurately, and I feel comforted that other people are going through...
That's why I don't try hard to find a treatment for ME. Trying to get anything treated is exhausting.
I think it's a combination of reduced life expectancy, older generations being less likely to receive a diagnosis, and perhaps older people no...
It's clear that recovery from ME/CFS is rare. The most common course seems to be onset between ages 10 and 40, lifelong illness, then death not...
Surveys have their flaws. Sometimes people answer incorrectly. But I guess every way of getting this data has flaws. This estimate is on the high...
I wish they'd stop making up funny names and call it what it is. The Mestinon/LDN trial.
I will be very happy if results are published by the end of 2024. I expect positive results, they studied around 20,000 people after all.
It would be an interesting rebuttal because the results are meaningful, but the interpretation for why doctors rate patients' health better is...
We need a rebuttal of this article done by someone like Leonard Jason. They would get similar findings--that doctors rate LC patients' health much...
Berlin Cures takes next step in battle against Long COVID Collaboration with Uniklinikum Erlangen as 5th German research center Berlin, Germany,...
The part I care about is when it'll be published. He says it might come out in Q4 2024. Which is a long way away.
This discussion inspired me to create another thread: What is a proper DALY weight for ME/CFS?
Inspired by our thread on A proposal for further developing fatigue-related post COVID-19 health states for burden of disease studies 2023 Wyper...
I'm pretty skeptical. I don't have any known ongoing infections. I even tested negative for EBV.
The discussion around health anxiety is not inclusive because it fails to discuss the experiences of people who have actual health problems. I...
It's definitely a country-by-country thing. In the US, billboards are common along freeways (motorways) and major roads.
The CDC recognizing PAISes as a group is a definitive sign that BPS ideology is continuing its slow, inexorable slide into irrelevance. Edit:...
If it's only effective if you believe in it, that's not science, that's religion. Not that I hate religion. But it doesn't belong in a scientific...
That's even better, thank you.
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