Don't be silly... having a proper control group might lead to a null result. It would be so easy to have a control group (instead of 'seeing a...
Oh dear, I thought I'd look at where this is coming from and have fallen down the FND rabbit hole. The write up relating to CFS which states......
A few initial, unfocussed thoughts: It's an interesting hypothesis. Overall I'm sceptical, for reasons set out below, but it's worth noting one...
I had to fight exceedingly hard for a blood test for pernicious anaemia... GP didn't want 'to go on a fishing expedition' - despite the fact my...
Derya Unutmaz has said on Twitter that he's going, which is a positive sign.
A close family member has this*, which came on after pregnancy. She went to the GP complaining of extreme fatigue and was told several times she...
Yep, it's done under the 'Resilience' banner at my work, something that I've pushed back on for my team because it often comes across as 'please...
Not quite the same, but related: mindfulness seems to be highly in fashion in the corporate environment, for similar reasons. I've seen it be...
I took a quick look at the Breakspear website, saw the bit where they start banging on about mercury in vaccines, and then ran away.
The difficulty with, and one of the reasons I'm wary of, metabolomic (and microbiome) studies is that they're so wide-ranging that one is bound to...
Quite possibly. I just found it interesting because if (in isolation from any other flaws the trial might have) I had an objective measure that...
Sounds promising, though of course we'll need to await the paper to see if the consistency is between specific metabolites or just between...
This study is a bit of a head scratcher for me. One of the main (highly legitimate) criticisms of these trials is the lack of objective measures....
Some bits I found interesting: CDF is based on parental report at 13yo, parental/child report at 16yo and at child report at 18yo and......
From what I recall, a minority were disappointed the OMF didn't get funded. Personally (as I've posted here before) I'm really pleased the Unutmaz...
Just used my lunchbreak to plough through this... it's excellent. And just in time for submission to a NICE review!
It's a good letter. Though I'd be interested to hear more about: This would seem to suggest weight training or even HIIT would be acceptable...
To be clear, I think the likelihood of ME/CFS being down to false illness belief as being basically zero: too much work has been done on this...
A million times this. Show me that CBT/GET works on a well-characterised group of ME/CFS patients with objective measures of long-term health...
Fascinating article, and it was heartening to read the level of improvement reported in the three patients in question. It was surprising (it...
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