It's good that the article is open access, and that it's possible to read the feedback of reviewers. The study was partly funded by a patient...
Yes, there's so many questions. It even seems possible that low levels of MBL might be a protective response to intra-cellular parasites The...
There was a similar finding about low levels of MBL in a 2015 study: Frequent IgG subclass and mannose binding lectin deficiency in patients with...
An interesting paper on ME/CFS immunology from a team based at the Medical University of Vienna: Evaluation of Immune Dysregulation in an Austrian...
Interesting to find a relatively high incidence of MBL deficiency in these two samples of ME/CFS patients. It now seems to have been replicated...
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0198885915004656 S. Guenther, M. Loebel, A. Mooslechner, M. Knops, L. Hanitsch, P....
This recent paper looking at Long Covid patients (91% had "PEM") Preprint: Chronic COVID-19 Syndrome and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS)...
Regarding the mannose-binding lectin levels: It is not clear from that the paper or the supplementary tables if the 32.1% of the ME/CFS patients...
I think it's of note that Lex Medica, the source of that information I quoted above, is an organisation that facilitates medical professionals...
The proposal was copied in this post up thread.
I assumed it was Patrick Hill, the person who signed the write-up about the proposal. And it seems it is him: edit to add link:...
Yay, a little bit of rationality. A better outcome than I could have hoped. It almost has me wanting to join twitter just to like the tweets. :)
@Brian Hughes :thumbup:
Perfectionism is discussed on the thread linked below, and others that you will find by clicking on the 'perfectionism' tag on this thread A...
No need. If you convince the general public and the GPs that people have only got Long Covid because of their personality flaws, the patients...
I'm still struggling to comprehend how these people think. It's suggested in the short video that the science for predicting Long Covid from...
No one gets to miss out on the wisdom of the BPS. An (mis)information campaign - just what we need.
"4. Campaign theme - Development and promotion of valid psychological screening to predict chronicity, post COVID-19 infection. Member network...
Wow, that is quite something.
It's interesting that they felt that there was not enough data to produce an evidence-based guideline. But they'll present some recommendations...
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