Ah, this is interesting: Neil O'Connor, the first author
Thanks for posting this @EndME. I'd like to use it in advocacy as it seems pretty compelling. What do we know about the authors? Do they have a...
See this study: Trials we cannot trust: investigating their impact on systematic reviews and clinical guidelines in spinal pain, 2023, O'connell...
The Canterbury Health Pathways team has let me know that they will inform teams in other regions about the webinar. Probably wouldn't hurt to...
I guess, but all science has similar problems. As this paper says" And meta-analyses can compound the bias. I think it is possible to do a...
I have been surprised to find out how variable MS lesions are over time - they seem to come and go, often quite rapidly. We have a discussion...
Just thinking about the blinding - that will be difficult. It will be fairly obvious if someone is receiving the painkiller, so, if they don't...
Welcome to the forum @Frenchguy, I'm sorry to hear about the extraordinary challenges you have been facing. Tagging @Jonathan Edwards
It's terrific news - the finding of possibilities, and the fact that the company is discussing things with DecodeME.
Not surprising that celecoxib would help pain. I'm skeptical of valacyclovir making a significant difference. It's been trialled in ME/CFS...
I struggled to get much out of this paper that is relevant to Long Covid. Perhaps the sample that was followed for months wasn't big enough to...
On the Long Covid analysis: [ATTACH]
I agree with this on Moreau's last slide, even with the exclamation mark. Unfortunately I didn't find this presentation to be part of the roadmap....
I don't think GRADE has to fail on this - it depends entirely on how it is used. Quoting my comment from elsewhere: So, if a trial is...
Well, not to get ahead of ourselves, it's just that those charts in Maureen's presentation looked compelling compared to the usual equivocal...
Probably the latter, and, in any case, the processes would be very much related. For sure, something starts to happen after exertion. But, there...
Yes, this. I'm not objecting to the use of the cuff, and monitoring the response to it 90 minutes later. It's the suggestion that this is...
The sex ratios are not consistent in the groups (lower percentage of men in ME/CFS group), and they seem to have found very different levels of...
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