This is the problem. The Mayo Clinic is renowned for succeeding where others fail - for being the court of last resort that will find the correct...
It could one, or the other... or both. But I'm not locked into that. ;)
Given it's The Mayo Clinic, I would just apply Occam's razor and put it down to good old-fashioned hubris, the same condition that the CDC...
I question those who say there is no proof that there are people who refuse to accept that there are skeptics who don't believe in denialism. :)
Well, a couple of years before I became ill, it was discovered that a major US fast food chain had been sent horse meat labeled as "beef" from an...
I wonder when/where the term "post-exertional malaise" originated. [below modified from original post] I got a hit from Google suggesting it was...
The muscles soreness that healthy people feel the day after exercise is called "DOMS." It stands for Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness. So, perhaps...
Perhaps the most famous use of the word "malaise" (in the US at least) never occurred. In the summer of 1979, then President Jimmy Carter gave a...
I don't have an issue with the medical usage of "malaise," but its lay use can be associated with "ennui," a feeling of weariness and...
I was just thinking about this a couple of days ago, wondering if PEM delay might be linked to the severity of other symptoms - like... is PEM...
Seems like it might be a pattern made by the fingertips/nails if the hand were moved in an arc from below by swiveling it from the wrist. Place...
I have trouble with right and left when giving directions, but I know which is which internally. I blame years of daily group recitations of the...
The definition of PEM which most closely mirrors my own experience came from Dr. Komaroff when he used it to distinguish ME/CFS from depression:...
The whole of the epidermis is made up of cells that are constantly making their way to the surface of the skin, so the spots may just be along for...
Maybe this is a dumb question, but wouldn't protozoans, like trypanosomes, be fairly obvious in the blood stream? Perhaps they can hide out...
The closest I ever got to Africa was the "Jungle Cruise" ride at Disneyland... and I still got this disease.
FWIW, I have similar red/brown dots (see below) that reach from my ankles to about midway up my calves. The "freckling" is actually staining of...
As a teenager, probably up to about age 20, I had the blisters seen in @strategist's photo (though mostly larger and fewer in number). It was...
You should be more cautious when preparing your tintypes. [IMG]
"The advancement of the arts, from year to year, taxes our credulity and seems to presage the arrival of that period when human improvement must...
Separate names with a comma.