It is a very neat story. This is how real science works. Most lupus is probably not primarily due to a TLR7 abnormality but if TLR7 can be blocked...
I have not looked at this in detail but I have a strong sense that this draft guideline is CRAP. That statement about synovial fluid is pure...
You don't 'simply put a value' because a machine generates it. You need to know what the machine reading means.
Thanks. That seems a pretty bizarre way to present data of this sort. Not sure what negative concentrations are supposed to be!
thanks I will try it.
Unless people are prepared to put some actual data in the abstract I am unenthusiastic about trying to wade through. I seem to be able to access a...
I cannot access Twitter threads these days. I get blocked from moving from the first shot.
It struck me more than once that there's a further problem if self-reporting: it’s hard to report that the nice people trying to help have been...
Looking at Webster's Medical Dictionary on Fatigue: 1: weariness or exhaustion from labor, exertion, or stress 2: the temporary loss of power to...
I think medical dictionary definitions need to be distinguished from how medics actually use terms professionally. Medical dictionaries are...
That looks like the sort of vague dumbed down definition that seems now to be very prevalent on internet information sources. Maybe everything is...
That seems to me to be an insult to those physicians like Jason and Nacul who are trying their best to provide a usable framework for discussing...
Where does that definition come from? It is completely inappropriate and I have never heard anything like it before. Malaise is normally used when...
I was lucky enough to work for the NHS all my life and never needed a sick note. The people who needed to organise cover for me accepted that I...
As far as I am aware physicians that use the term use it in that way. They understand that patients feel unwell with discomfort or frank pain all...
I was taught the meaning of the word by my parents, who were both physicians. Malaise is used in social contexts but lots of medical terms are. I...
Is this worth trying to justify? Since we know that ascertainment and variation in criteria make it pretty impossible to give a prevalence...
Arthralgia and myalgia are too specific. It isn't clear that the symptoms are coming from these structures. In polymyalgia rheumatic, for...
This post has been copied and following discussion moved from this thread: “Dr. Ken Friedman and Dr. David Maughan – ME/CFS and Long Haul Covid...
That is pretty much what malaise means in medical terminology. It is what people with prostrating infective illness like typhoid have - very much...
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