A counter view to the idea that the media is creating Long Covid
Hidden disability: The quiet struggle with Long Covid in Kenya...
I'm not sure what you are saying there. The data really does not support a coherent story - the sample sizes, especially taking into account...
No, they really weren't, although they do claim that.
Just to push back on the idea that medicine doesn't provide meaning, I think, depending on how you define 'meaning', medicine can provide it, and...
Yeah, although it would be good to have the study replicated, I think the data is all over the place and there isn't a real result here. There's a...
Missing values That's a lot of missing values, relative to the sample sizes. I don't know why they didn't do better getting this data....
Beyond that, they don't say why they only looked at the PCC. I wonder if they looked at other parts of the brain. The methods section says they...
Cytokines Levels of cytokines that were different between two disease levels, Extremely Severe A and Extremely Severe D (the difference being...
Severity levels Figure 3 gives an interesting definition of severity levels, with additional sub levels added for extremely severe. I like the...
Improving Wikipedia's references to ME/CFS We have this thread in the Advocacy Projects section about efforts to improve Wikipedia's information...
Yes, and well-informed rehab people, including Physios for ME, are likely to be particularly successful at getting their colleagues up to date....
I understood that wrong, but I think it's worse. They don't know if the cortical thickness in the two regions noted are actually any less thick...
There's a paywall. I'm interested to know something about the characteristics of the participants - were they hospitalised during the acute...
Just a word on the effectiveness rating which was headlined in the abstract: Those percentages sound useful. However, effectiveness was...
The pain treatment was a chilli extract applied to the lip for 15 minutes. The sham acupuncture was at a site deemed inactive, and the skin was...
Ah, sorry. Oh well, I guess we have time to prepare :)
I think this is on in an hour and a half, it will be an interesting one It would be good to have plenty of the people who have looked closely at...
Myography method:
2 to 4 weeks between each trial of exercise
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