Anything blocking the external auditory meatus (earhole) is expected to increase tinnitus simply because it starves the acoustic neurons of sound...
I doubt there is any factual basis for the content of this article. People with MS may have all sorts of fatigue that has nothing much to do with...
One might think that psychiatry, having no reliable base, might be where angels would fear to tread - perhaps that's the problem.
If placebos were legitimate for subjective symptoms surely they would be even more legitimate for objective measures? If they worked.
I think this is a misconception, John. The problem with placebos is that they tend to work in contrived artificial situations like trials in a...
What I think we need is activist Andean geese. They have been discriminated against for too long now.
Sorry mate but we don't actually need you to survive. If you want to do PR work the first thing to learn is not to let on right at the beginning...
I did eat my greens, miss. (Oh, and I ate a ton of carrots before that blood test to make sure it looked OK.) Since when did 'Hey, eat more...
I suspect that trying to refute such comments simply fans the flames. I doubt that these sorts of views are going to influence thousands of...
I think it is arguable as to exactly what muscle paralysis means. It tends to imply complete loss of movement including reflex movement, although...
Yes, this is unhelpful disinformation that will confuse people with ME looking for answers. Few if any of these tests have been confirmed to be...
I don't understand why the questionnaire cannot ask whether either now or in the past the person has fulfilled the various criteria. CCC and IOM...
That is a pretty weird comment. I wonder in what sense somatic is being used. Any mental component is going to be neurobiological so the statement...
It is very hard to know if there is anything 'consistent' here. Peptide arrays will always appear to give a result. The question is whether it...
It looks like a waste of time to me, sadly. This sort of mass peptide screening technology seems unlikely to find anything. I suspect they are...
The key problem is denominators. I had significant reservations about using any population recruited through the internet for any purpose...
But the volunteering is going to be dependent on the whole 'feel' of the request. I think the situation is quite different from most other...
It is hard to say what is normal, since the business of mass contacting people and privacy protection is relatively new. Historically it was not...
The GLAD study would not have had the make or break issue of getting enough cases because anxiety/depression is much more common. Moreover, there...
When people sign up to this study, we will ask them if they are willing to be contacted about taking part (directly, or by agreeing to share...
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