MHC has been looked at and the results are not clear cut. Fluge and Mella reported an association in that region to HLA-DQ and HLA-C I think....
The simplest way to test it would probably be finding all the people with ME who by chance have been treated with Campath-1H or something similar....
Maybe our species should have been called Homo apopheniensis
Why are so many of these junk papers published by Elsevier I wonder? This reads exactly like one of those computer fakes. Dial in rheumatoid...
Therefore, by definition, because the patient-centered interview defines the specific BPS model in each patient, the model itself is...
CD8 T cells would be likely to be involved because they are involved in antibody-independent immune responses. CD4 T cells might very likely also...
The problem with muscle biopsy is that to get a sample that is big enough to be representative it is likely to be painful and to leave a scar. In...
Difficult to know what it would mean for it to be accurate or inaccurate since nobody knows and nobody agrees. I very much doubt that most people...
The whole article looks to be misleading make-believe to me. It just throws in a mass of conflicting pseudo facts without any indication, until...
I think it is unfortunate that a study of six month follow-up of people hospitalised for Covid-19 gets tweeted back as a 'Long Covid' study. The...
Yes, I wiped down the groceries with meths just this minute. I don't think there is any cut off time for safety because virus will die off...
I was reading the coverage in Science at the link that says Scienmag. If the author is quoted saying these things I would be pretty sceptical. I...
The write-up is full of hype and bullshit (like the continuing reference to a cytokine storm that isn't there and guff about autoimmunity). I am...
Good work.
Pentoxifylline has been around since about 1980 and has always had a reputation for being a drug that does a little bit of everything and a lot of...
There are always risks of harm in trials. Part of the point of a trial is to make sure there is no harm. Prior to PACE there was no clear evidence...
I am not sure we know that exercise is beneficial either for back pain or fibromyalgia. The best study I have seen in back pain suggests that the...
They would have been able to legitimately claim that the treatment worked for at least some - that's all. And of course if they had monitored...
And it seems so far even more difficult to draw a line under their outpourings.
No, I said that was exactly the wrong thing to do. It doesn't work like that. As Michiel says, it dilutes and risks missing a result, but it can...
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