It might be interesting to see how many times internet sites carrying the PACE paper (PubMed etc) have been downloaded recently. It might turn out...
I don't see how anyone can charge for a Chalder fatigue score. You might have to pay for software to calculate the score I suppose if you wanted...
Nobody
I don't think there is an 'art of reviewing'. Reviewing is just giving an honest opinion. It is not unreasonable that senior people are asked to...
Holton claims that the picture here looks simplistic, but we do not yet have evidence that would give us sufficient reason to abandon it. Or to...
I prefer double unblinded review and publication of the review and reviewer attached to the paper. Then if the reviewer says anything stupid or...
I think we wait to hear what the final scoping agenda is. We also wait for adverts asking for applications for committee places.
There is a difference between putting something in the guideline as a positive suggestion and what physicians are free to use if they wish. I...
No, I think not. B12 has been used for decades as the panacea placebo and I would bet my shirt that is all it is. It is the perfect placebo -...
As I understand it the PACE authors position is consistent on this. They did not recognise a specific 'disease' called ME and were not trying to...
I am not sure what big differences are being referred to. I have not seen anything that has stood up to replication well and am not actually aware...
I think that is moot in practice. For an infectious disease like Lyme or hepatitis an appreciation of infectious cause is going to have a big...
Perhaps the obvious choice is Stuart Watson who works with Julia Newton.
Yes, I think Edwards was a major influence on the construction of the Wessely-Chalder speculation. Edwards was de facto head of Medicine at UCL...
Tending to show is not enough, though. There are tens of thousands of papers tending to show this or that in any number of diseases and the great...
I realise that the IOM framed things in this way. However, the truth is that we have nothing that provides firm evidence for a pathological...
Agreed but if the fifth point is that they turn out not to be deconditioned despite ME then the first point is a bogus argument. And it is only...
It's in the original paper laying out the plan to use CBT: J R Coll Gen Pract. 1989 Jan;39(318):26-9. Management of chronic (post-viral) fatigue...
Well he jumped between two universes in a single paragraph in the 1989 paper, so he is pretty consistent. He was justifying something, I forget...
Yes @Suffolkres, I think there are some legal issues here, and rightly so. Even on my Bird Club Wiki site I am asked not to mention who else was...
Separate names with a comma.
