I foolishly started responded @Esther12 comment on what was important was the calibre of people of the decision makers, by compiling a list of...
I have been looking at the various Cochrane Review Groups to try to make my own mind where I feel we would best sit. There are eight main groups...
Although Cochrane put no timescale on deciding what to do about their Review of Exercise in relation to CFS in their update at the end of November...
Is there any objective evidence that 'conversion' of hypothesised trauma into somatic symptoms ever actually occurs? These supposed conversion...
There are various useful leaflets, and I always think I will remember the sources, but then forget. In the UK the ME Association has various...
If as the BPS crew seem to believe the illness labels impact on people's actual condition, presumably they are also by implication saying the...
In relation to MUS and to the make up of the new NICE Committee there was quite a lot of discussion here around [the literature expressing the...
Although I would agree video conferencing is a potentially very useful tool, indeed it is in my list of things to discus with my GP when/if I get...
This may be a bit of a digression. Have found a couple of sort of relevant studies in relation to Fibromyalgia, that give two very different...
Sorry not feeling up to reading more than the abstracts at present. However I am suspicious of any study claiming an effect of naming because...
An interesting article. However I have no specific recollection of having had hiccups during my acute glandular fever stage leading to my ME.
Are you starting 'a book' on this? What odds do you give on a Lord Wessely or a Dame Crawley? [Added - perhaps we should be contacting our local...
Yes, I understand you point. A disrespect for the patient is inherent in the BPS approach to ME/CFS and their development of the concept of MUS as...
Presumably here the pet owners and vets demonstrating the caregiver placebo effect were relying on their own informal observation rather than...
Perhaps they were doing the research on a limited budget, so did not have money for nurse support.
My interpretation was, given the way my blood was taken changed from session to session in such a way as to increasingly assert the doctor's...
Well said @Brian Hughes It is so frustrating that issues being discussed forty years ago and more have still not been properly addressed.
On reflection, I had a sudden onset of symptoms, literally between 1 and 2pm on a Wednesday afternoon at a regional communication technology...
Presumably unless there is confirmation that the patient had a specific infectious agent, we can not be certain that all onsets associated with an...
Here is the Sun link, this is their Irish site, shared by Tom Kindlon on Facebook, I don't know if they also have a seperate link on their English...
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