The review says that exercise therapy probably reduces fatigue at the end of treatment in comparison to a passive control. A passive control is...
Disappointing but I think we could all see this coming. Had they been serious, they would have withdrawn it without delay.
Okay. It's not a big deal. It's a good letter. I just thought it would be helpful to be specific and avoid possible misunderstanding of what is...
On Wikipedia it says that evidence-based medicine is about classifying the evidence according to its strength and giving more consideration to...
I would like to see an explanation of what commitment to science and evidence-based medicine means. It could be reasonably be interpreted to mean...
Nice.
The reason patients overlook this (as a group) is because they aren't good at interpreting research findings. I feel that the BPS model and the...
I think I know what you want to say and it's not easy to express. The high disease burden and neglect of the illness by the medical profession...
They are awfully far on the right in terms of words and actions for being someone stating to be on the left.
This is a nice presentation.
Do you see ME/CFS as one heterogeneous illness or several illness that have large overlap in their characteristics? If it's the latter, then what...
Could there be a diagnostic test for ME/CFS based on brain imaging?
They are eroding the credibility of science.
Ouch! I don't think CBT/GET would pass these criteria, even though the main problem is that PACE is not a controlled clinical trial while being...
He says the IDO2 mutation appears necessary to develop ME.
Germany is horribly backwards in some ways. They love homeopathy, psychosomatic medicine and Freud. Glad that things are improving though.
A diagram from the article. [ATTACH] Very similar to the model in PACE which didn't produce any meaningful effects. Just because someone can...
I agree that PEM is emerging as useful distinguishing feature. There are probably also a significant number of patients that have an unexplainable...
I don't think that's "another side to the argument". Obviously it doesn't make sense to treat a person as having ME/CFS when they actually some...
ME is caused by malfunctioning machines left behind on Mars by an ancient and now extinct alien race. There, I have "explained" ME, or so the...
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