No. In fact once oedema has formed massage doesn't seem to do much. We tried 'Flowtron' massaging devices in the 1980s but they did little. Once...
That seems to fit with the story that people with severe Covid who do badly could be very hypoxic without shortness of breath. This was supposed...
I can think of one, or maybe two, over thirty odd years. It is an interesting question. I have to assume that in general PWME are not referred to...
⇒ Treatments for CFS/ME should be negotiated between healthcare professionals and patients and should always be delivered collaboratively. I...
I don't really buy that. These are soldiers considered fit to fight in the first place. Certainly in those days people were stunted and had chest...
That is certainly another way of analysing it. But if you were as terrified as people had a right to be I think it may become hard to draw a line...
I have written a paper on Camptocormia in the past, having studied a case in an elderly woman. I don't think the article is very accurate and I...
Dr Jarvis may have realised that should he find himself in court that statement would not help his Medical Defence organisation (legal backup)...
Proof of concept is when you have actually proven the concept - i.e. got a definitive result!
Maybe I should be clear that by that group I mean Newcastle, not the various authors of the paper cited.
Interaction in relation to their rituximab for fatigue study, which I think was in primary biliary cirrhosis. There seemed to be an assumption...
I am afraid that any abstract that contains an instruction to the reader as to the value of the work described is a clear signal to stop bothering...
None of it is of the slightest relevance because there are no trials that give reliable evidence for a cost effective treatment regardless of...
Yes, of course the quote as a whole is totally non sequitur. The last sentence is fine. But it in no way justifies the first, which is a bogus...
I am afraid I was not very inspired by the research approach of that group. The emphasis seems to be just on measuring the amount of fatigue. I...
He has a fair point. There are a lot of very dubious names for medical conditions that continue simply out of convenience. But myalgic...
Double-Dutch to me.
s It seems that the Guardian adheres to a glorious conception of supporting the underdog, even when the underdogs are professors of psychiatry...
Ah, OK. But I imagine the US has laws about ethical board approval too. The more I look at it , the more it looks like a way to get suckers to...
Replying to Glasziou: It isn't actually hard to reply when people make claims based on no evidence - as they did in this paper. You just stick to...
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