I am not sure that this is true. Many people are too ill to carry out essential daily activities and have to rely on carers to help them to do...
It hinges on whether researchers will adopt this definition of long Covid. Since it is operational (it comes with an easy-to-use score) and is...
I disagree with your premise. The RECOVER initiative may be producing results too slowly, but such an epidemiological characterization of long...
Indeed. To me, this definition seems to delineate two major presentations of long Covid: people with PEM and autonomic issues, and people with...
Interestingly, non-long Covid ME/CFS patients diagnosed per the IOM or NICE criteria would score at least 11 points: PEM (7), brain fog (3),...
Summary thread on Twitter by a lead researcher within the RECOVER initiative that explains the methodology of the study: [MEDIA] They developed a...
I suspect that they used the DePaul Short Form PEM questionnaire which, as we have discussed in the past, is quite flawed.
I don’t have access to the article, but according to the trial registration, it was meant to compare the effects of cocoa extract (flavonols,...
This seems to be an interesting European collaboration between the German startup selenOmed, which is a spin off from the Charité hospital...
Interesting to see this coming from French dysautonomia specialists (the university hospital Lariboisière is the only one in Paris that...
Reactions from experts collected by the Science Media Centre (SMC):...
“Atypical” ME is an oddity of the international consensus criteria, which define it as: “meets criteria for postexertional neuroimmune exhaustion...
Seeing the situation from France, I would say that the two major contributing factors to the success of ME/CFS advocacy in Germany have been...
This made me think about fiscal optimization / tax evasion. Whether trialists do it knowingly or not, it is as if they were jurists or lawyers at...
Access to individual patient-level data (IPD) of randomized clinical trials (RCTs) increases the reproducibility of research, facilitates...
Journalist Martin Rücker, who published snippets of the draft article spearheaded by Peter White about the “eight errors” made by NICE in the...
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From the press release: On the recommendation for CBT: On the recommendation for GET: Unfortunately IQWiG also call for more trials of GET:
A critical take from epidemiologist and data sleuth Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz: [MEDIA] Edited to add: a counter-argument from epidemiologist Deepti...
They could always collaborate with Norwegian and Danish functional disorder researchers like Flottorp, Wyller, Fink et al.
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