Can you tell us anything about the types of analyses that are planned and the numbers of patients that would be involved?
Is the ME Biobank done in conjunction with other BioBanks so that data can be compared across different populations of people with chronic...
I have a further question relating to this study. One of the things they seemed to be reporting was differences between fresh and frozen samples....
I assume that the longitudinal study is aimed at looking for correlations between changes in peoples reported symptom level and blood markers over...
It's not clear that there were harms in the patients that were followed up (or at least more than other groups). I think the other groups caught...
It is surprising. Even the free school stuff didn't cover someone setting up an online school. There are companies offering online education but...
From what I see too many GPs default to doing nothing and dismissing patients (hence the desire to push for psychogenic diagnosis). We have had...
It did make me wonder. Quite a lot of people with ME seem to have an intolerance to drugs and I believe some antidepressants are particularly bad....
I only just realized that this comes from 2009. I think status of the arguments have moved on in terms of a better understanding of the failures...
I have a theory that when someone is starting to feel a little better they look for potential treatments, try things like this and continue to...
Its an exploratory subgroup analysis so they may have looked for lots of possible subgroups and could have just come on one at random where there...
I agree and if you need high numbers in a trial chances are the effect is small.
The way stats testing works is that you try to reject the null hypothesis (that two groups are the same) and in doing do try to show a difference...
Yes and I don't see why they can't quote both. Sometimes differences between the mean and median are informative in terms of the distribution but...
Thats the one. They are developing a new service not analyzing service data...
I would generally favor the median as it is more robust to outliers and makes less assumptions about linearity of any scale.
Is this the one that Tuller wrote about as it didn't have ethical approval?
I meant the argument that if a couple of individuals send angry messages that constitutes a campaign of harassment from the ME community. I...
Whilst she would use such an argument I don't think it is valid. I would see it as a form of discrimination in that the actions of individuals are...
Sometimes if people have competing theories and different directions it makes sense to keep them separate. Trying to force groups together can...
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