The dispute was over opioid pain killers - the young woman was in a lot of pain, but the Mayo clinic, with all the controversy about the "opioid...
The HR of 5.31 shows a trend towards a risk for Guillain-Barré syndrome. Note that this is a relatively rare consequence (around 1/100,000...
It looks like Jake is going to speak out in support of the participants, which is certainly an interesting twist.
Wow, that's awful! There is something really messed up in our culture when medical practitioners use such dirty tactics in retaliation.
The difference (in this case) is that prominent people involved with the Cochrane collaboration were the ones making the criticism.
Quite right. A lack of specificity of an association means it is likely not to be causitive. I mean you can't blame total resting, continuing to...
Actual article is here (in Spanish): https://www.actaspsiquiatria.es/repositorio/20/114/ESP/20-114-ESP-125-32-297763.pdf The descriptive...
The alterations observed in the study are trivial and easily reversed as the person resumes their regular routine. I'd love to be able to...
Reminds me of Andrew Lloyd frequently claiming CBT works when speaking to the media. (conveniently forgetting that his study found no effect...
Who the fuck calls a trial "Fatigo" anyway? Clearly they don't like patients much.
The only meaningful cytokine association regularly reported in the literature is TGF-Beta, and well, they didn't test for that in this study....
Claiming there could be a ceiling effect and not providing a histogram/visualisation or statistical test of the effect, leads to the claim lacking...
The trap of circular reasoning...
Thanks for sharing your experiences. The blood tests will hopefully be interesting. There is no stopping and starting, I'm not sure where you got...
Wow, that shows substantial bias on the part of the authors right there. Glad Crawley called them out on that one.
Not that I know of. It seems strange that a hypothesis presented over 20 years ago has not only never been confirmed with reasonable evidence, but...
I really don't know as there are no consistent HPA axis abnormalities in CFS studies so far.
This is a pilot study, it is designed to inform future studies, not demonstrate efficacy.
Here is my quick summary of all the data I have seen so far: van Ness 2008 Difference in Ventilatiory threshold Oxygen Consumption (VTO2)...
They have all found issues at the ventilatory threshold at day 2 - it is the VO2peak that varies from study to study, I suspect it is because not...
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