No, quite the opposite. There is a reasonable chance that vaccine to one coronavirus will provide some protection against the next. There is no...
There is something very distasteful about something like this published in 'Medical Anthropology - almost as if it is a visit to the zoo. It...
It looks as if Strain genuinely wanted to distinguish Long Covid from 'pulmonary or cardiac rehab' rather than ME/CFS. But I think the problem...
[IMG] David Strain @DocStrain · 19 Oct 2020 So to set the record straight. I said Around 2/3rds make a good recovery and live a normal life. To...
Yes, it is a problem that needs to be confronted. Most fringe things slip into the trashcan - 98% I would say. There may be. Corticosteroids...
It very much holds doctors back. When I left rheumatology I had stopped prescribing corticosteroid to almost everyone. For RA it was limited to...
That does not follow. It is true that a lot of doctors are pretty irrational or evidence-free in their decisions about certain things but across...
Should it be required reading for someone who thinks exercise and positive thinking are no use?
Established professors are quite often fringe doctors, unfortunately. I think we know that corticosteroid does not produce dramatic benefit and...
I think anything above 15mg is toxic long term. Cataract is quite common. There are quite a few 'specialists' like that about in Belgium and...
It is an interesting report. It looks as if megakaryocytes (platelet precursor giant cells) are getting into brain without being filtered out in...
Except that a simple look at the graphs for all European countries suggests that opening schools in September, as expected, led to tens or...
There is nothing simple about treatment with hydrocortisone, as @Perrier suggests. The basic bind is that if you give a small dose the adrenals...
At least until the lockdown I would normally almost every day be talking to someone new and bring up the fact that I had an interest in ME/CFS. I...
An analysis of five clinical trials found that participants’ pain didn’t decrease on average Well that's a bit of a worry, surely? So it doesn't...
I am not sure that one should be despondent about this. I think a huge amount has been achieved. I also think that just as habits tend to get...
With luck academic psychiatry departments will lose interest in ME research and services will move more towards medical clinics but it will take...
Nobody gets notified in such a way that they are likely to read it. There are far too many guidelines to read regularly. Over a period of time GPs...
I am happy to give an expert armchair professorial opinion in the abstract. My opinion is that the best advice comes from free debate amongst...
The problem as I see it is that as soon as any medically knowledgeable person sees the argument neurological condition therefore at risk therefore...
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