OK, I'll have a go. I can't comment on the credibility of the hypothesis - for me to unpick that would take a lot of time. For what it is worth:...
That's the same 14 April Sky news article that TiredSam linked above It gives the appearance of an unedited media release e.g.
A trial protocol for a study of tVNS on post-cancer fatigue: Effect of transcutaneous auricular vagal nerve stimulation on the fatigue syndrome in...
Discussion thread on this treatment here: Vagus Nerve Stimulation The tragus (part if the ear) as a place for the stimulation is questionable -...
Is there anything stopping a group of us writing a new review for Cochrane? What would be the steps?
For those of us getting confused by all the 'm's' in front of RNA and DNA: messenger RNA (mRNA) - a single strand of RNA. Gene > transcript of...
I understand that that idea has been resisted due to the desire to have a fairly ethnically consistent sample to cut out unrelated genetic...
From a recent paper specifically looking at people with post-Covid exertion intolerance, a finding of increased numbers of CD169+ macrophages:...
Background on CD169+ from Functions of CD169 positive macrophages in human diseases (Review), 2021
It's great that this study was very selective with the group with post-acute covid-19 symptoms i.e. They didn't just use a group of people with...
New abstract Myalgic encephalomyelitis, ME, previously also known as chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) is a heterogeneous, debilitating syndrome of...
More on the consultation process for the "Examining the Working Definition for Long COVID" here: USA: 'Examining the Working Definition for Long...
The study reports that 59% of depressed people had their depression improve in at least a minor way, over the 4 years after talking therapies....
That headline is true - people have linked talking therapies with cardiovascular disease. However, it's also very misleading - it makes only just...
We have an In Memory thread here Dr Jonathan Kerr
While I have reservations about NCNED (and awe at their ongoing ability to pull in funding), I think the Australia Rickettsial Research Laboratory...
A 2023 study failed to replicate the findings of the 2021 study: Neutrophils infiltrate sensory ganglia and mediate chronic widespread pain in...
One more thing: This study failed to replicate a 2021 study on the transfer of pain behaviour to mice via IgG from people with fibromyalgia. That...
Well, I didn't see even an acknowledgement of the potential problem of human neutrophils in mice in the paper. The charts seem to make a good...
Ha. I wondered whether human neutrophils would work in mice, it seemed a bit amazing. I haven't read the discussion of this paper yet (or much...
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