I think we need to look at this at two different levels. Firstly, from the perspective of a person diagnosed with "FND" they have remarkably few...
Making a thread for this because there are very few post-viral/post-infectious conditions where the pathophysiology remains enigmatic and because...
A long time ago I chased down some of the references in SW's papers - in his infamous "Old wine in new bottles" paper, he references the preface...
Just done this. A few initial thoughts: 1) On the "level of physical function" question: the two closest options for me are ".. 50% of expected....
For anyone wondering how medical dictionaries define "malaise"... Mosby's medical dictionary: malaise [Fr, discomfort] a vague uneasy feeling of...
Full letter is here. Same old....
Chronic fatigue syndrome and subsequent risk of cancer among elderly US adults Cindy M. Chang PhD, MPH, Joan L. Warren PhD, Eric A. Engels MD, MPH...
I think that was the request to QMUL that @dave30th discusses here: I think what many of us would like to see, short of the dataset being made...
I hadn't seen this before; I've just done it. A few comments (under a spoiler tag, as I discuss specific questions): [spoiler]
Same with "complex". Peptic ulcer being caused by a pathogen seems simple enough in retrospect but was not at the time; perhaps in a decade ME...
On the dietician-with-a-specialist-interest recommendation - I thought this was bizarre, but it's specified in the GL ("Refer people with ME/CFS...
A few random thoughts: 1) There seems to be an assumption throughout this document that there currently exists a pool of ME/CFS "experts" who need...
There is one other possibility. I believe NIHR grant-funding committees require lay participation ("public contributors", they're called at NIHR)....
This really needs to be changed. Of course ME can involve pain, but it is not a "chronic pain syndrome"; very poor practice to lump them together....
What frustrates me the most about all of this is the knowledge of what could have been. We finally had a guideline that "both sides" were willing...
This is a misrepresentation - the reviews were not excluded solely because of mortality. Three Cochrane reviews were excluded from Evidence Review...
While Dr Cheney was well known in the U.S. for the compassion and care he provided to his ME/CFS patients over many years, I'm afraid that this...
Dr Tuller's (excellent) blog highlights one of the points Knoop made: Not new. This argument was also made by RCPsych in their responses to the...
I may be missing something here, but there seems to be something curious about the demographic data (p27) - e.g. summing the "Occupational status"...
First thoughts after a very brief skim: the authors wrongly state that PEM is a required feature of the NICE 2007 guidelines (in fact,...
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