Some interesting findings on the incidence of long covid and use of health services following above population survey. Please note: Tangata...
Founding LC Research published today by Te Herenga Waka/Victoria University, Wellington with recommendations for the Ministry of Health. It is in...
I haven’t done the module but have read through the case definitions by Trish. I choose to follow the clinical practice guidelines we have in NZ...
Agree, LDN has no placebo controlled randomised trials, significant side effects and no real understanding of how it helps ME other than for...
Hmmh I am not sure about this for Aotearoa/NZ. The judiciary is still separate from the state (and we ditched the crown bit)… But yes,...
Yes, to me it is like conversion therapy. And I have a reasonable knowledge of ACT for mental health disorders (not the ones mentioned in this...
Collaborative!…no, this is a form of coercion using outdated psychoanalytical and psychosomatic theories, BPS and pseudoscience. It removes...
@SNT Gatchaman, thanks for checking and comparing It’s 0900 here, my watchME HRV is still reading 56, do you know when it updates? Apple Health...
Not a procedure that I would ever partake in….sounds aversive and painful…. The autonomic dysregulation, increased vagal tone has been around...
I have been using a combination of apps for Pacing that utilise heart rate (HR) and heart rate variability (HRV) using Apple iWatch and iPhone. I...
Thanks for the analysis @SNT Gatchaman (and Hutan) The metformin use is very interesting and in line with emerging long covid research, ME...
With careful history taking, PEM can be diagnosed quite easily for doctors who have had specialist training in ME but to fulfill criteria for...
It was a good interview, very interesting to hear David’s journey from journalism to public health and his reactions when tried to get responses...
Interesting, sort of a tiny little red flag, not even a formal watch but not one I would be overly concerned with compared to getting covid and...
Immediate thought (as not going to read the article) I can see many confounding factors - Tibetan Buddhist monks are likely to have a totally...
Took me ages to work out how you were a biomarker….go radiology! I used to assess physical and mental state without radiology or any test. No...
Fibromyalgia Interstitial Cystitis Schizophrenia, Bipolar Affective Disorder, Major Depressive Episode, Anxiety Disorders eg. PTSD, mild...
Clinical significance is a tricky one, (I am a retired doctor, not an immunologist or a specialist in medicine). These are a) abnormal b) are the...
Just had Medsafe provisional approval, (end of last month), for the bivalent in NZ as read here...
I don’t like the SF36 as Is more for a general “healthy” population for the reasons stated by others, rather than specific for ME….. I am...
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