It is so disappointing to see such embarrassingly banal and ill-informed comments coming both from Attomarker and from Imperial College. The idea...
Yes but this is measuring antibody levels I think. Antibodies in the blood are what provide protection because they diffuse out into all tissues...
As presented the whole thing looks like a bad entry for a school invention competition. The presentation might be misleading but I am not...
Yes, I doubt that would be directly relevant to ME/CFS but there might be a lesson in there somewhere.
Give it all to Chris and Audrey in Edinburgh I would say. The only thing that really matters is that you have sharp, intellectually honest,...
In the absence of any findings with more robust markers I find it hard to be excited by a few chemokines, which are usually pretty...
Actually, I just read what was in the thread posts - the introduction to the abstract says enough I think. My point is that, as the...
I like the sentiment but if two of the main suggestions go in the wrong direction that isn't going to achieve that good. Recommending off label...
My reading is that this is about predicting early disease once you have a biomarker. Just how useful it is to try to be precise about predicting...
Damage may not be quite the right word but it might be fair enough. I think there is an important lesson to learn from the genetic condition...
But David, given that Engel was in fact a psychiatrist and that his abstract opens with the contentious if not vacuous, and quite clearly...
The bit about not having an example to hand was in response to a quick afterthought email from the journalist asking why there was a problem if...
An interesting thought. I would have said emotions only exist in the head - in brain cells. But people use 'emotion' to mean different things....
So Larun's answer is 'I still don't understand the basics of trial methodology and like to hide behind 'tools' generated by others who don't...
But should it ever be used? The word was presumably invented for political purposes by someone in public health. It has generally been degraded....
Looks potentially very interesting. Even if there are major confounders the relatively narrow relative risk may be saying something important. I...
It is pretty dismal, I agree, but if you have no idea where to look for a solution, and pretty much we don't, then competence and effectiveness...
Sobering thought that maybe over 300 people have been through this craniocervical fusion mill at this unit - with presumably no proper trials...
Many thanks for the extra information, Diane. I am actually quite (pleasantly) surprised by this because I review grant proposals on a regular...
Almost certainly people like Wallit and Nath will use it this way. I am pretty sure that physicians both sides of the Atlantic are very aware...
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