I looked up pragmatic trials and found a good review in NEJM. It says: It is only after phase 3 drug trials that we have any real understanding...
Of course it exists but we have a perfectly good word for it - bacterial infection. We have a perfectly good word for low level hurricane - wind....
And about time too, and it is mostly me that is flattening those biologic patents - because the pharma companies had no right to them in the first...
It does not make any sense. Septic shock is by definition a term for an acute overwhelming cytokine release syndrome. 'slow sepsis' is a bit like...
I am sure I will enjoy reading this in due course. But I have a sneaking suspicion this is just a rehash of Esther12's PM to me about three years...
I too am a bit sceptical about the usefulness of a WHO decision to call it neurological. The WHO is a bureaucratic rather than a scientific...
I don't have the time to take on something like that. I think I am also disqualified by having published views on ME/CFS treatment. I think they...
Dear @MErmaid, I am sorry if you feel strongly that things are wrong. But I assure you I am trying to give all the support I can. Part of that is...
I liked the picture at the top - it illustrates how poorly we understand what a self is. And maybe is not too far off the truth. I was also...
I don't really buy what I think you are saying. In RA the government never funded any of the good research. We scraped together charity money and...
If we do not actually have any evidence then I see no reason for it to be in a guideline. I would personally call supportive counselling...
I doubt that CBT is in the guidelines for cancer. I think we should keep things simple.
I admire your enthusiasm @MErmaid, but what are you going to ask them to do? Remember that virtually all drugs produced by pharmaceutical...
the problem with animal models is that they work the way you have engineered them to work. That does not tell you anything about whether they work...
I think the systems dynamics analysis set up by Broderick in this group is important. There is a very bright young scientist called Travis...
Remember that physiotherapists, psychotherapists and psychiatrists are also 'stakeholders' here. My feeling is that what should really happen is...
But how do you get Pharma on board if we have no idea what we want them to produce? I have been to talk at a big Pharma company just to let them...
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