Tissue was not tested but I wonder if a virus was there if it would not leave traces in the blood and elsewhere. As somebody noted: "The question...
Some quotes from the paper: "At the initial visit, all adult patients met the CCC and all pediatric patients met the CDW-R and/or 404 CCC...
Interesting editorial. When ME/CFS advocates argued that more funding should go to testing non-pharmacological interventions we were always...
Thanks @Simon M and @InitialConditions ! I agree the PHQ-2 seems the least problematic, but it is only 2 questions and was mainly intended as a...
I think StackOverflow's took the right position. In my view, Chat GTP is very useful if you use it as a language model to help generate text or...
Many questionnaires used to measure depression ask about general symptoms such as fatigue, sleep, appetite, concentration etc. People with a...
Interesting study. They did some simple cognitive tests before and after a 10-minute NASA lean test. The ME/CFS and Long Covid patients did worse...
But frustrating that the ME/CFS community has been trying to get accurate info in the newspapers about problems in ME/CFS healthcare or...
Why did The Observer/Guardian publish this article? It does not mention the research on gut dysbiosis by Carding in the UK or the comeback study...
Here's an example: fatigue assessed in the Rituximab trial was not downgraded (page 36 of Appendix F). The quality of evidence was considered...
Many of the arguments are the same as in the Lancet commentary. Here's a brief overview of my comments based on the arguments in the press...
Agree, she is really fluent and professional, job well done. The other presenters were also good.The first one talked about restless leg...
Thanks for pointing that out. I've made an error by only looking at some papers with results after treatment where the SD is often larger than at...
Unfortunate that nobody touched on the strange numbers in table 3. They report for example a standard error of 0.5 in the CBT-group at baseline....
They used the flawed Wessely review to argue that placebo effects in ME/CFS are small. The effect for the primary outcome fatigue is quite large...
Just watched the fictional TV-show 'Dopesick' and the HBO-documentary 'The Crime of the Century'. Both are about the opioid crisis in the US....
It is unfortunate that mental illness and stress as a cause of symptoms carry so much stigma. This should not happen, but it does. So if...
Moved posts This is the MS paper in question: Locus for severity implicates CNS resilience in progression of multiple sclerosis | Nature...
I think her main argument is that there is too much resistance to mental illness having a causal role in Long Covid because this could actually be...
She wrote: "Pieces by mainstream journalists have suggested that linking depression and long COVID is tantamount to accusing all long COVID...
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