This sounds a bit behind the times. When I was on the UCL ethics review panel in the 1980s we took seriously whether the study would produce...
This seems to be the story for all these drugs: Abilify, naltrexone, whatever. Maybe they think it sounds good, or distracts from them being...
Any particular reason to think that?
I don't have an account for Facebook and am glad I don't. Sometimes it limits things but for various reasons I think it best for me not to join!...
It would be useful to know if there is any knowledge about mechanisms and schedules. If the dose has to be increased slowly because of side...
A practical question that comes up in the context of an LDN trial is dosing. Titrating the dose up to find a best dose is very difficult to...
Shooting nerve-zaps seem to me to be a fairly common and hard to interpret symptom. Sometimes they can be put down to trapped soft tissues in...
The UK government working party on research strategy for ME has been discussing the value of setting up trials for drug repurposing. LDN is a...
There is a current discussion in the UK government working party on research for ME on doing trials on LDN to settle this issue. I think it makes...
Yes, all new patients had a full locomotor history and examination and neither I nor anyone else seems to have identified clinical features of...
I don't know what has happened in the last five years or so but my understanding was that the claim of finding SFN in 'fibromyalgia' cases was...
I think we need to inject some realism here. I have never come across a case of fibromyalgia, either in practice or presented as a case, with...
Yes, if the plasma is removed by aphaeresis then the gig level would fall a bit, but to that much, as SNT says.
I do love Norwegian. Mrs Floptop being snakked for dissing the ME activistens. Go for it Tostrup!
I don't actually think there is any significant similarity. Donation of a pint of blood, including plasma, (maybe even a litre) will not produce...
Yes. But if I remember correctly the agenda was to find a way for provider groups to be happy about implementing the Guideline. So it might have...
Roundtable members had to be specified representatives of stakeholder organisations. That meant Royal Colleges, equivalent organisations for other...
I think you can probably rest assured that this will only be read by half-demented Marxist-Leninist nonagenarians. My mother belonged to the CPB...
I would respectfully suggest that they have not got an accurate message across. I knew Tiny Maini well and was involved in other TNF inhibitor...
There is always a lot of pressure from healthcare professionals and charities to exercise but I don't think there is any reliable evidence for...
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