That's a worry. Can anyone contact the MEA, @Russell Fleming? It seems that whoever is making editorial decisions there is not very aware of,...
I've heard much odder ideas about the cause of ME/CFS. It's interesting to think about. I assume tonsils are primarily there for immune...
Canada: Edmonton Long covid clinic - Park Integrative Health, Neeja Bakshi Here, an example from today of a medical doctor who is specialising in...
From the twitter thread, Dr Bakshi has Long Covid herself. She knows what PEM is She is obviously sympathetic and goes into bat with insurance...
An article about the clinic, Park Integrative Health Specialized clinics to treat long COVID are in demand and physicians say they can't keep up...
Yeah, I laughed out loud when I got to the last bit of the title. And then felt sad for the rats. I had to google to get the reference - for the...
A very warm welcome to the forum @Veronica.
Achingly sad poems. Veronica might be physically limited but her poems soar out across the world. I spent some time thinking about the use of...
If we are talking about about the same letter, my memory of this is that actually a journalist made a letter with pasted cutout letters, mashing...
The structure of the study is good, with the ME/CFS subset and the healthy post-Covid-19 controls. It's notable that lower levels of...
I don't recall the details well, but I'm pretty sure that the mug was not thrown at anyone, researcher or otherwise. I vaguely recall that the...
Yes, this is the epitome of re-arranging deck chairs on the Titanic. The ship still sinks even when people are seated in groups according to how...
Getting to the molecule that was proclaimed as a biomarker in the abstract: Complement C4a level First activity challenge Baseline: ME/CFS...
IL-1β They didn't find any detectable IL-1B before or after either bouts of exercise in the ME/CFS group of the controls. This was in line with...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] First I note the very short duration of the exercise. 4 minutes or so of cycling. I think that the impact of this exercise...
That's quite a big and consequential statement, but it's oddly downplayed in the conclusions where the researchers just call for more study of...
First sentence of the paper. The researchers don't see PEM as a mandatory diagnostic criteria for ME/CFS. Also the framing of "bad" exercise or...
Gosh, the researchers must have been relieved - with a p of 0.049 that finding came perilously close to being statistically insignificant. But,...
Not to diminish the awfulness of chronic illness and the losses, and the additional impact of being disbelieved and stigmatised, but I do think...
PACE was about people with long lasting fatigue. I don't think that alone automatically makes the evidence it produces worthless. PACE showed...
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