But it presumably wasn't the result of them being bullied into submission by "action" carried out by "militant patients", and it was the result of...
Surely he'd only really need to read the draft, though. The story is about the response to it by a group of doctors and researchers, who're...
It is, of course, but NICE had already done the work for him. In great detail and with not inconsiderable expertise. All he needs to assess is...
I explain that I'm disabled, so moving X pieces of furniture would need to be priced into the decorator's time (which signals that you don't...
Yes, there are studies ongoing in the UK. The trouble is that it's not easy to draw clear inferences from waning antibodies alone (they're not our...
I think you can opt out of sharing with commercial partners before you sign. I ticked No for that box, even though I don't think I feel...
Didn't hear that one! Honestly, bloody journalists...it's mostly about genetics (so in fairness I suppose mothers are 50% to blame), but the only...
As people may have heard in the news, a new study launched yesterday called Spectrum10k. I thought I'd post it here in case any of our autistic...
There was talk in the 90s about ME patients being in a sense comparable to highly trained athletes, in that both groups are functioning at the...
Does that mean you don't owe him the courtesy of refraining from tweeting his hilarious tantrum for the entertainment of Sweden's ME patients, then?
Are you on Twitter, @Yvonne? That would make a really neat thread to shortcut the arguments.
This whole individualised medicine thing is a serious concern. Didn't the concept emerge from the possibility of (eventually) predicting which...
I'd completely forgotten how bizarre the criteria are! My claim was indeed based on mobilising. I use a powered wheelchair, so they've never even...
That's how it's supposed to work in the UK, and for some fortunate people, it does. In theory, it's a sound idea: the impact of the same...
As an aside: We had (briefly, fortunately) a GP covering at our surgery who believed much the same, but even he knew that GET and CBT don't work....
Yes, I guess even if it's more an attempt by a patient rep to gather additional evidence than a formal part of what the committee is doing behind...
If it is real, surely NICE will make the request in some formal way?
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