I think we should acknowledge the researchers who are willing to put their names to this paper and the institutions that allow them to produce...
I found myself sitting with my mouth agape, appalled at this study. Close inspection of it did not help at all. Checking out Table 4 which...
Yes, supplementary material. One thing they did do well was provide a lot of additional information.
The beliefs these researchers hold are really rather bizarre.
Recruitment So participants had already self-selected to believe that mind-body treatments could be useful.
The Study of the Therapeutic Encounter Foundation has a website that someone forgot to finish. Here's the 'about' tab: [ATTACH] The...
And then there's the old 'obfuscate the followup measurements, by allowing the wait list participants to do the other treatments' trick. Here,...
Columns are: Pain Reprocessing Trmt: Placebo: Treatment as usual [ATTACH] So, on average, the people with the brainwashing treatment were...
This is annoying on so many levels. I started out feeling dreadfully sorry for the rats, who were put through this for no good reason. I ended...
All of the illnesses that can cause ME/CFS - EBV infection, Q-fever... have a long tail of people who have ME/CFS-like symptoms for months after...
(This is a version of a post I made on this thread earlier and deleted) This is great: But this is arguable, and, even if true, tends to...
I don't think so. I had what was diagnosed as euthyroid Graves eye disease a lot of years ago, and so have had my thyroid function checked most...
That's interesting @paused_me. How credible is the test? 'Intracellular electrical capacity - in lymphocytes' - how does that work? May I...
When trying to find out how long ciprofloxacin might last in the body, I came across this paper:...
Very sad to hear about that situation. @Andy, re Woolie's enquiry. A long shot, but perhaps your friend might recall the name of their...
I'm sure the website will make a big difference. Hungary has a population of nearly 10 million people, so that is a lot of people with ME/CFS,...
For the last few days, I've been ending up in bed in the afternoons, unable to get warm, exhausted and feeling chills. I guess it's PEM, although...
A member made a typo recently (or perhaps they meant it), writing 'flowchart' as a 'flawchart'. The term is perfect for those circular diagrams...
Those interviews from Croatia are brilliant, and very sad. The stories of the two interviewees deserve more publicity, I think. Thanks Mike,...
I've done the call, there were 3 women from NICE who were , well, very nice. They do genuinely want to make guidelines more useful. I guess that...
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