Thanks for bringing the report from the Royal Academy of Sciences to my attention. I am afraid that I have had a long and bad relapse in my...
This is an important point. We shouldn't confuse preliminary findings, non-replicated papers, leads, and hypotheses with established facts and...
I love it! Simply brilliant, @Brian Hughes! :thumbup:
Good question! I think that hypochondriasis does exist, although the label is often used erroneously for conditions that are not well understood....
I have just received a copy of Jörgen Malmquist's book on ME/CFS, "Trött hela livet. Sjukdomen ME". In English: "Tired all life. The illness ME"....
The so-called placebo effect is a mix of different processes, including memory bias and the desire to say what the investigators want to hear. It...
Jörgen Malmquist is a former hospital doctor and also an Associate Professor ("docent"). He has published several books and several opinion pieces...
It is an interesting paper, but I think they miss an important point. Epidemic ME was a contagious disease with unknown aetiology, although...
I hate to sound negative, but I would be careful to cite this paper. The analysis is interesting and they raise some valid points, but the...
Thank you for highlighting this forgotten epidemic. I find it interesting, as many critics of the ME diagnosis point out that the ME epidemics...
Doesn't this undermine the cognitive behavioural model for ME/CFS? The model proposes that inactivity is part of the problem, and the PACE authors...
There is nothing wrong with hypothesizing an illness mechanism. However, if the proposed mechanism doesn't hold up and the proposed symptoms don't...
Neurasthenia is an obsolete concept. George Beard introduced the term in an article in 1869. He never tried to define a group of patients...
Serious rehabilitation of patients with chronic pain and fatigue? [ATTACH]
A letter to the editor about care for patients with ME/CFS was published in the Swedish medical journal Läkartidningen yesterday. An English...
There is a publication from 2006, which lists the infections that are known to cause post-infectious fatigue. Influenza is on the list. There are...
Thank you, Tom! I think it would be unfortunate to get involved in a name battle at this point, as the underlying pathology of the illness is not...
I think it would be a big mistake to politicise scientific journals. Scientists will bend their results to fit the political agenda they are...
Thank you, Jonathan. I have a follow up question. I am often faced with statements such as "there is no scientific basis at all for ME/CFS". I am...
Link to study: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3044169/
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