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Kia ora @Tapanui 'Flu Some seriously interesting reading there, both in the blog post and the 40-year-old article 40 looong years and the first...
That seems to me a massive missed opportunity. The dark figure of the undiagnosed is arguably an even bigger source of uncertainty than those...
Yes. In some twisted way I feel my health is good, despite the ever present, highly unpleasant - understatement - and very limiting ME symptoms. I...
Speaking of which, this preprint from Canada just came out. Discussed in its own thread but briefly, they looked at self-reported CFS diagnoses...
Has anyone tried tagging an ME prevalence study onto one of those large longitudinal population study cohorts they have in some countries? A...
In addition, could be worth somebody on xtwitter (i.e. not me) pointing out to Melinda that people of colour and people with low socioeconomic...
Yes, I think the only way out of this muddle of confusion is a really good, big and solid epidemiologic study, one that's not based on recorded...
Those last two are possibilities have been haunting my thoughts for a while. Partly because if it was a single something you'd think somebody...
Based on this paper in PNAS. Paywalled - grrrr Iron regulates the quiescence of naive CD4 T cells by controlling mitochondria and cellular...
tweet in previous post says "Article published by the Otago Daily Times - includes a video interview with two people from Tapanui, West Otago, who...
To my knowledge nobody has made any claims about proof of causation. On the contrary, my argument was that we don't know either way and that both...
I'm working my way through some lectures on microglia*, nothing to do with ME, just how the things function in general. One key message is:...
Public health surveillance studies show many viruses produce asymptomatic infections, and in significant numbers. For some, like some...
Younger is doing a study using some fancy new scanning tech to determine if white blood cells from the periphery infiltrate ME brains. Hopefully...
Maybe different stories were told in different places and times? It's what I was told by my local MS society back when I was misdiagnosed with MS...
This thread is a valuable thought exercise even if it turns out to be impossible to agree on the ultimate list at this stage due to too little...
Highlighting some quotes I think are important - but also most at risk of being forgotten when considering models and unifying hypotheses. We can...
Another open question that would be important to answer: do the various manifestations of OI reflect stable patient subgroups or can they be the...
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