The accompanying paper on the female cohort mentions: "All patients underwent a detailed clinical history to establish the diagnosis of ME/CFS...
Yes, Dr Ghali and his team interview new patients, asking about symptoms related to ME. Presumably they note changes in symptoms at follow-up...
Differences between patients didn't seem to relate to new or atypical pre-onset symptoms, and those symptoms were varied: PEM frequency did not...
An example of a RCT showing no effect on the main objective outcome but improvement on secondary subjective outcomes: The effect of education and...
A PubMed search expression that can be helpful: (accelerometer) AND (fatigue[Title] OR pain[Title]) The same one with filters for clinical trials...
The same study with females (51 ICF / 50 ME/CFS patients): https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9032/9/6/682 Female Patients with Myalgic...
It is important to note that Dr Newton recommends activity-based approaches such as graded exercise and advice on deconditioning as a first-line...
The RCTs and reviews that Henschke has co-authored, which focus on chronic pain, seem to acknowledge low to very low quality evidence, but not...
I'm afraid this only worsens the issue of her biases towards physical activity/exercise being reflected in the updated review. I understand...
Other than sufficient knowledge of the topic and methodological rigor, no particular set of values and beliefs are necessary to provide valuable...
Neurostructural and Neurophysiological Correlates of Multiple Sclerosis Physical Fatigue: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Cross-Sectional...
Were researchers who work on the quality (methodology, reproducibility or replication) of trials of exercise and physical activity in chronic...
The admission that some Cochrane members are reluctant to scientific criticism being shared openly, for everyone to review, is seriously...
Dr Julia Newton has been involved in at least three studies of very poor quality on ME/CFS and exercise [1-3] -- one of which Karl Morten's group...
Simmaron Research has provided ME/CFS samples to Dr Maureen Hanson's team in the recent past. It would be interesting if Cort Johnson could put...
Infectious mononucleosis: the Dubbo study and "Risks for Developing ME/CFS in College Students Following Infectious Mononucleosis: A Prospective...
Upsetting news from the national association for CFS (ASFC). [MEDIA] The newsletter they have sent to their members is titled "Year 2021: For a...
As usual, this is a review of interventions using the Oxford and Fukuda criteria, and it does not consider post-exertional malaise as the primary...
The page says that the meeting will be co-chaired by Fiona Godlee. I hope your question(s) will be addressed directly rather than evasively.
No surprise, coming from Cathébras. To my knowledge, he is the main advocate for functional somatic syndromes in France and has been at it for...
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