This might be a touch off-topic, but one thing that struck me personally is that patients are described as having 'chronic severe...
Anyhow, on the whole AfME thing: this is an open forum and even the members only posts are essentially public - I'm reminded of this cartoon. I...
I dunno, I use the fact I can do about half of the Private Eye cryptic crossword to falsely claim I'm some kind of intellectual at work...
In many respects, moving on to a larger organisation can be seen as a positive: that getting involved in ME/CFS research/advocacy is not the...
At best all one can say about this trial is that it supports the need to have a proper double-blinded trial. In the responders it really does...
Are you thinking about Vogt rather than Vink? Mark Vink has written highly critical commentary on the PACE trial as part of the JHP special issue...
On the DSM 5 piece I have some major concerns: So one has the scenario where a patient isn't suffering from depression, anxiety or some other...
I'm somewhat more optimistic, albeit for cynical reasons. The simple fact is that if a biological treatment was found tomorrow (say, for example,...
I tried to find a patent application to see if there was more information on the basis of this test. Unfortunately Google Patent is bloody awful...
For context to... ...I would highlight that this week's New Scientist reports a separate study that shows that telomere lengths in women who...
I think we should be wary of using phrases like 'proper ME patients', as if considering participating in an MRI study automatically rules one out...
Would be interesting to see if there was a patent application backing this up - which should have given some details as to the evidence behind...
The Lib Dems aren't the force that they once were, but I'll share this: when I started out as a public sector accountant, my team would sometimes...
My view is that perfect is the enemy of good... and to hear this discussed on BBC national radio in the way that it was presented was pretty damn...
Thanks @Valentijn , those are some useful points. I think you're absolutely right on not engaging with a study if it were to use Oxford criteria,...
You're right, there are a small coterie of BPS proponents who will always argue that any finding supports their model, by dialling up or down the...
I suppose the counter-argument is so what if they do? That would still be progress and I'd be wary of arguing that scientific research shouldn't...
Personally, I'd rather that studies like this did use a depressive disorder as a control group, alongside HCs - provided that they exclude for...
I'm not sure it does - AFAIK the reason companies like Yakult can't add health claims are two-fold: There's little evidence that probiotics are...
Looks like there's some good stuff in here. My brain is too tired to do a proper hunt today, but have any of these findings been published in...
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