I think there is a subtle reference to the " arc-de-cercle" which was the arched back that Charcot decided was the cardinal sign of hysteria....
They don't use paired sera in virology any more. They are only used if the first test is negative but the patient is still showing symptoms so a...
Unfortunately, they have done quite a few studies now which show structural changes but they claim these are changes which make a person liable to...
I don't know if the survey was ever published, it was in the US but they were looking at weight. I was going to do it, but they asked what your...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15041034 2004 Acetylcholine mediated vasodilatation in the microcirculation of patients with chronic fatigue...
I was involved in a study with many years ago. Since I could not influence the results the technician explaned what was happening during the test....
I don't know, but all these things are packed in sterile conditions. If they weren't, people would get gastric symptoms. Samples are taken from...
I don't now if this is a good thing. Great if they were now thinking about ME as we know it is but if they are just calling it the same as us...
Maes seemed to be a supporter of ME. I checked the list of his papers in MEpedia. I did not look at them closely, but the ones I remember which...
My autistic grandson has perked right up :) His 6 foot distance from people walking the dog is the new normal and no one is "being helpful" and...
Just some thoughts reading all this. Firstly, here in Scotland health care workers are being tested. Before all this started, coronavirus was...
Yes, but where can you buy a mask? Plenty on amazon but delivery is by end of April, end of May or June!
Just from being involved with the ME community since the 1980s, I get no sense that ME is associated with the severity of the initial viral...
Labs are used to getting large numbers of specimens, I don't see why there should be contamination to give false positives. Handling these are not...
The BPS people now refer to PEM a lot but they do not mean what happens with ME, just a generic I feel bad after I do too much and it takes me...
So people with an imaginary neurological disease have worse neurological function that people with imaginary diseases of other parts of the body....
The ignorance is staggering. Many of the people with ME DO NOT EXPERIENCE FATIGUE!!! I had paediatric ME but my first presentation to the medical...
Since many of us worsen over time from moderate to severe, say, it is not a stretch to consider that gradual onset is actually a sudden onset...
I have no idea where I would buy a mask - no chance of being able to make one. I've seen pictures of stalls selling them in the far east and that...
Yes, it is strange that no one is reporting this much. The BBC is making a big thing this morning about NHS England starting to test NHS staff so...
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