I am! I have the files.
Just that in the days when I was involved in chasing nucleic acids with PCR specificity was a big issue. Specificity with fluorescence staining is...
Yes but wherever there is inflammation for more than a day there will be T cells, just as there will be neutrophils. It tells us nothing...
My own experience of Covid and continuing symptoms makes me think that residual virus maybe in gut is very plausible. I am not sure how it...
Spellcheck: The woof.
Well there's a surprise.
Well they clearly see it as fair game for a bit of exercise therapy. Sometimes what it says on the tin isn't the whole story! Nobody with any...
From an institute of sports medicine. So now MS is a sporting injury?
In other words the Telegraph has fallen for the con by the professionals just like every one else. The Guardian is the same.
Is it a reliable test? Breakspear don't have a reputation for being scientifically reliable.
But only if we have reason to think it relates to causation. We tend to assume it must do but it need not. 98% of people with fibromyalgia may...
That isn't the point, @DMissa. The point is that it is a common fallacy to think that medicine is looking for very high levels of correlation. If...
I don't actually think we want biomarkers for anything. We want tests that reliably identify some physiological change that is likely to be...
I have to admit that I did nearly water my cousin's plastic orchid once when renting her apartment in the Alps.
The subtle irony of my post was perhaps lost?
I can see the headline now: People with fibromyalgia can't tell plastic from real flowers. Or so it is claimed.
I note that they judged cell abnormality on the basis of circulating free DNA. A key feature of SSc is that cells die - especially the endothelial...
I think this paper is problematic but maybe it has some value for systemic sclerosis SSc. People with SSc are often severely fatigued, or...
Yes, the situation for the last fifty years has been that MS has been seen as a pathological brain disorder but large numbers of patients with MS...
The editor may well be a journalist who happens to be sympathetic to the PWME cause. The editorial officers do not appear to be medics.
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