Currently reading about the myth of the schizophrenic mother, and thought this was an interesting read: Mistreatment of Patients' Families by...
Effectiveness of training in guideline-oriented biopsychosocial management of low-back pain in occupational health services – a cluster randomized...
The surveys says: Does that mean people outside the UK cannot participate?
The reasoning: "we can see what the trials cannot" doesn't make much sense to me. If doctors can see with their own eyes that the treatment...
This one by Peter Rowe required patients to have neurally mediated hypotension. It concluded: "In our study of adults with CFS, fludrocortisone...
Some of the treatments listed have been trialled in ME/CFS, often with negative results (caveat: lack of statistical power might also be an...
Thanks for the summary @Kalliope
From the quotes, it's quite clear that the participants' boredom, lack of interest are the result of being severely fatigued/sick. They don't...
Yes throughout the paper, the authors seem to favour I-CBT because that's the version they made and it's shorter and cheaper and at follow-up it...
I think the key word here is "waiting list control group". Patients who received treatment I-CBT were compared to patients who also wanted I-CBT...
It seems like the text of a poster presentation was published? It reads: That would really surprise me. A holistic approach, taking social...
Thanks, just one clarification: the psychosomatic theories of diabetes were rather marginal and noninfluential as far as we can tell. We provide...
New article on psychosomatic theories on diabetes [MEDIA] This blog post looks at psychosomatic theories of diabetes, from Walter Cannon’s...
Moved from this thread: Swiss Re: Expert Forum on secondary COVID-19 impacts Feb 2021 I sometimes try to follow Sharpe's reasoning. Perhaps he...
Can't remember, but it was something like that, much lower than common estimates for ME/CFS.
If I recall correctly, the study identified cases based on GP's records so if the GP's didn't diagnose people with ME/CFS, patients would have...
Interesting study. Unfortunate that the Japanese findings could not be confirmed.
If only they had interviewed a patient with severe ME/CFS who tried GET/CBT only to get worse afterwards. What a different episode it would have been.
In Belgium, the government plans to start vaccinating people younger than 65. Priority is given to a large group of people with health conditions...
Cool, thanks for sharing. I like this version of John Prine's Angel from Montgomery the most. [MEDIA]
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