"The biological factors in PCC, such as immune activation, might be the result of a conditioning mechanism by chronic stress" ... if we ignore...
"few or no" is a great phrase. "Your honour, my client has committed few or no crimes."
"Further investigation and replication is warranted" gotta keep that grant money coming.
I've been a keen amateur dancer all my life but now I can't move in time at all. I guess it's the same problem as whatever it is that makes it...
As the authors say here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41577-023-00904-7
That's a lot of public money being spent on things with no evidence base.
Histamine blockers are among the most commonly prescribed things for Long Covid. If they were gamechangers we'd know it by now.
So they've found that X is associated with lower Y and their conclusion is that X "reduces" Y.
Are there any other diseases where a researcher would think it was acceptable to say they've discovered the fundamental mechanism while completely...
what's the saying: When a measure becomes a target it ceases to be a good measure?
Infantile.
I've tried to read the paper but I'm too brainfogged to make much sense of what looks like at least partially machine-translated text. (for...
They refer to the same 'three Rs' there: "Patients with long COVID have called for ‘recognition, research and rehabilitation’,23 "... Reference...
Recognition is going to be increasingly important, as fewer people even know when they've had Covid in the first place, and when they go to their...
Bearing in mind that 'Long Covid' is a term being used to cover all and any sequelae of acute Covid, there are aspects of some types of LC where...
also along with Munira Mirza, who was director of the No. 10 policy unit at the time when Boris Johnson was scrawling 'bollocks' and 'Gulf War...
It sounds like a garbled version of the 'hygiene hypothesis', the idea that being too clean is bad for you, but that applies to bacteria rather...
I've done that test, lying on a sofa with a laptop! It was achievable on a day when I felt relatively with-it and didn't have any other...
This is so true and so important. When I first became ill, I was the full-time carer for one of my children who has a disability and needs quite a...
Does he genuinely think they've "shown" that on the basis of a single p.04 result from 8 patients and 6 controls? While other results in the same...
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