Yeah, I just find a lot of this stuff (things to do with gender and mental illness and links with cardiovascular issues) a bit questionable -...
First sentence, and it's not starting well for me. Seriously? 1 in 4 people are affected by mental disorders? - and they make it sound as though...
Yeah, but the titration is also the perfect way to get people to believe that a drug works. Someone starts with 0.5- no result. A month on and...
This sort of does my head in. If a doctor regards FND as illegitimate, does that mean they think the FND diagnosis is illegitimate, or the...
I'm with Trish, my understanding is that mixing H2 and O2 almost always just produces water. You need specific catalysts to make the mixture...
That blog is about one man's account of using an enormous grab bag of alternative therapies. Things that are clearly nonsense are mentioned as...
I'm sorry that your partner is sick; she is lucky to have you. My personal opinion is that virtually all doctors claiming expertise in ME/CFS...
Great points Peter. And Brian's piece is so good. I'm just not sure about Brian's discussion of the first 'error': “[NICE] created a new...
Thanks for posting this Andy. Yes. And, further in addition, it allows commercial and other interests to hype their products with 'evidence' of...
There might have to be a significantly longer period between the treatments, as I see it's recommended that Abilify isn't stopped suddenly. The...
How does the person know that the improvement isn't a fluctuation in illness caused by something else? I got as far as buying some naltrexone...
I'm not sure why. There may be the idea of people with ME being in a limited caterpillar stage, and with help or the right sort of treatments,...
The knighthoods and awards and appointments to important positions in the NIH and publications in the Lancet* (*There's a new Lancet publication...
A 2021 pre-print (it's been on our list of things to do for a while, to make a thread for it). I'm not sure if it was ever published. Of note...
Pre-print https://osf.io/tfbnd/ Vivian V. Altiery De Jesús (MBE)1 Nisreen Alwan (PhD) 2 3 4 Felicity Callard (PhD) 5 Zackary Berger ( M.D.) 6,7...
It's just a brief letter without an abstract. No data, just witterings about how existing knowledge about functional somatic symptoms can provide...
This is a fairy readable commentary on the Pecanha paper: Sympathetic reactivity and inflammation: another joint problem in rheumatoid arthritis?...
Increased sympathetic & haemodynamic responses to exercise and muscle metaboreflex activation in post-menopausal women with [RA], 2020, Peçanha et...
Cort Johnson, who wrote the Health Rising blog, is a well-known ME/CFS commentator. Through his contacts, he does sometimes bring new information...
Data for 19 young people (as filtered through the awareness of their parents - with those parents volunteering through social media) is not...
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