I was only involved in the S4ME response to enquiry on the draft. I agree that it looks as if the NICE GRIP committee is taking this forward with...
And as long as patients insist on only allowing the ideas they like, to appear in definitions the medical profession can smile and shake their...
Yes, and I've looked at their evidence and it is meaningless. I mean real evidence, not artefacts on slides.
Psoriasis, MS and eczema are entirely defined without reference to cause. Chapters on them may discuss causes but that is quite different. PTLD is...
Sorry but that makes no sense. In order to attribute a cause to some health condition you have to define the health condition you are wanting to...
I think he used the same methods as everyone else - and none of them have found anything in any other diseases much. The amount of money wasted on...
Wessely's interest emerges at the time the biological work declines, yes, but I don't see how we can know what caused what. Durval Costa's work on...
Yes, I think there is an important distinction there that may be missed. PVFS seems to have been created as a concept some time around 1980 to...
Yes, I am not in any way disputing that there is evidence for infections being noted at the beginning of ME in a good number of cases. But that...
Yes, there is a strong argument there. But just as in philosophy, where 'dualism' depends on what you mean by dual, one would have to ask what is...
Hm. The way things are packaged right now you have medics like me, Brian Hughes, Nigel Speight, Willy Weir, Ilora Finlay, Carol Black, not to...
Even if the committee agree that Lady Tweedsmuir's comments about the quality of your marmalade were offensive, Caroline, they are unlikely to...
But if PEM isn't a sort of fatigue then I don't get what it is. I have had Covid-19 this last week and have been asking myself questions about how...
The wording is naff, I agree, but it is reasonably clear what is meant. Cell death in this context is not in itself inflammatory. It may be due to...
OK so if the criteria are that bad why has this not been discussed here over the period of the NICE guideline development? Why were the NICE...
But is that right? My understanding is that a policy of focusing on treatment was made around 2001-2002 by MRC since research into cause had...
case of what?
The psychiatrists made a complete mess, yes, but I am not sure they were the reason for the drop off in other research. Around that time Venables...
I think this is a completely non sequitur argument. The relevant question would be more like 'which of the symptoms shown by the broad group of...
'Subclinical' actually means 'causing no symptoms' so it would be an unfortunate term. I have not yet seen evidence that suggests to me that these...
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