exactly! - and even these sick people were capable of repeatedly doing enough tiring physical exercise to be included in the study, while other...
This sort of mess just emphasises how utterly pointless it is to go on treating everyone who comes under the umbrella of Long Covid as if they had...
But there are NHS neurologists right now trying to put a FND diagnosis on patients who present with brain fog and fatigue, without any of the...
Cambridge and Peterborough LC clinic: according to this, 53% of their patients present with "Functional illness", 9% with FND and 4% with ME....
Tiny sample size, no control group, Fukuda criteria, and what look like very outdated references on the background of CFS, efficacy or otherwise...
If the authors' aim is for HCPs to be clearer about the diagnostic criteria for FND and thus more confident in communicating that diagnosis to...
It really is. There is so much we could be finding out, right now, if the official attitude didn't boil down to "go away, calm down and wait for...
"The biological factors in PCC, such as immune activation, might be the result of a conditioning mechanism by chronic stress" ... if we ignore...
"few or no" is a great phrase. "Your honour, my client has committed few or no crimes."
"Further investigation and replication is warranted" gotta keep that grant money coming.
I've been a keen amateur dancer all my life but now I can't move in time at all. I guess it's the same problem as whatever it is that makes it...
As the authors say here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41577-023-00904-7
That's a lot of public money being spent on things with no evidence base.
Histamine blockers are among the most commonly prescribed things for Long Covid. If they were gamechangers we'd know it by now.
So they've found that X is associated with lower Y and their conclusion is that X "reduces" Y.
Are there any other diseases where a researcher would think it was acceptable to say they've discovered the fundamental mechanism while completely...
what's the saying: When a measure becomes a target it ceases to be a good measure?
Infantile.
I've tried to read the paper but I'm too brainfogged to make much sense of what looks like at least partially machine-translated text. (for...
They refer to the same 'three Rs' there: "Patients with long COVID have called for ‘recognition, research and rehabilitation’,23 "... Reference...
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