It very specifically means, in medical terms, that pathology occurs in multiple systems. Talk of systems is talk of mechanism and as you say, no...
DwME clearly want to speak with authority. They need to if they are to be taken seriously. But simple things like the credits for this psychiatry...
It should justify the statements made. The NICE advice on diagnosis is just a rough and ready approximation to what is really needed - an...
And really this sort of account is not alright for lay people. ME is not a nultisystem disease in any meaningful sense of the word and calling it...
It is OK as a take home message for lay people but it commits so many of the mistakes the psychiatrists make and it plays into the MUS narrative...
This isn't going to persuade a single psychiatrist of anything other than 'Just what we thought, a group of people with MUS and unhelpful...
Agreed.
I think Keith's gripes are a reflection of reasonable frustrations even if a bit rough edged. I personally think there is every reason to fund...
He doesn't get it though, does he. GET is not appropriate for anyone with a post-viral illness. There is no evidence base and no scientific...
Both my wife and I now have hand problems these days and we have moved over to a 3 component system: 1. Very light small thin bladed, very sharp...
This simply a symptom of how much biomedical research has collapsed in the last twenty years. The situation is the same at UCL now. Nobody has a...
That looks garbage to me. I worked out that the way to produce remission in RA was to target B cell clones rather than T cells despite the...
Yes, this is basic medical student immunology.
Yes, we have known from the outset that autoantibodies occur in normal healthy people but less frequently. The stuff about them being useful is...
Perhaps it should be like the great bake off. You have two psychologists CBT-ing each other and the one that alters the most unhelpful beliefs in...
Yes, we probably ought to keep the lid on!!
Yes but what is the point of providing 'activity guidelines' when the government you work for has no interest in reducing sales of high sugar...
So maybe the answer to the original question is that what matters is whether or not there is a problem with bone density. Bone density is...
Yes, looking at various sources the figures are confusing. I was assuming that the original quote was talking about soluble phase magnesium in...
But if that were the case there would be a well known syndrome of magnesium deficiency due to poor absorption - like pernicious anaemia. There...
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