One of the consequences of this is that it anyone reading the paper cannot use knowledge of the treatment to assess the methodology. So they...
The question is whether there is any reproducible evidence that shows consistent immune abnormalities. This is where the evidence is somewhat...
One of the things I liked about the IoM definition was that they made a diagnosis that would allow co-morbid disease. I think this was on the...
She may have been missold treatments by doctors. There is a drug available to help with Fibromyalgia so this may help get it under control and...
It looks like she tried to register under a research group title and I think that can be very hard when the group is not a university group....
I don't think local groups were ever allowed but some slipped in. I'm not sure what they would consider as a legit patent group but I suspect we...
I think NICE were removing some organisations particularly some of the local ME groups. There rules state that they need to be national...
One of the issues in incentive structures is that academics can get away with bad work and even in the case of PACE get a lot of credit for it....
If you go to that page and click on the name then you get to the email address: neuroscience@medsci.ox.ac.uk
I'm thinking a bit more about fit bits. The tolerance is important and needs to be much smaller than the effect being measured so if (Crawley in...
This work seems to have been going on for a good few years now but I've not seen any results that hint at an interesting mechanism. Also how long...
I think its important to characterize fatigue in more detail. There are the people he is looking at, say people with fatigue after cancer, people...
I think they funded Smile or the feasibility study for Smile
There is an issue over the quality of the subjective measures. The CFQ is so bad its not worth the paper its printed on and the results are...
I think there is a difference between a medical device and a device measuring activity for a trial. There will be inaccuracies but for the levels...
I think the decision to drop recovery as a secondary outcome was made when the SAP was written. But they had not dropped to idea of a paper on...
I had forgotten about it so no.
I do wonder if there are other examples of people doing this. But I assume with Smile they found a loophole and will continue to use it as they...
McCrone is an economist not a statistician.
I agree with the never assume anything. The quality of the result may of course depend on the quality of the experts. But this is where I would...
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