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Yup, a 'scientific' seal of approval of sorts. That would be really scary and harmful.

Ok so they were "mild-to-moderate" not mild. The subgroup of responders was doing 3,600 steps per day on average before the treatment. That's quite a lot considering that half of the general population walks less than that...

It's hard to know what to make of this. On the one hand, we know that this therapy has been around for, what, 20 years and that thousands of ME patients have spent money pursuing it. Many new people get roped into doing it each year and we've heard reports of patients being pressured into doing...

We've been down this road before with open label rituximab studies before the blinded RCT showed it was trending toward being worse than useless. The results here are strongly suggestive of a spontaneous improvement / regression toward the mean / placebo response in patients who were probably...

Interesting topic but uninformative abstract.

Useful to know, though I don't recall anyone pushing this particular hypothesis.

Sickly people with chronic illnesses are likely to have sickly children, nothing surprising there. Why does our society have to psychologise everything?

Supermarket here in Ireland actually had staff at the entrance only letting in people in batches every 45 minutes. Absolute panic and chaos. I'm glad I prepped 2 months ago when everyone thought I was crazy.

I used to be in the "sick but never sick camp" for almost a decade. A few years ago, coinciding with an improvement in my overall ME/CFS, a cold came and since then I've had a cold once a year every winter around November time. They last a long time and affect me much more than other people...

Videos like this are popping up on social media where Wuhan sounds like a zombie movie. Don't know if it's fake news but if it's real it looks like regular people are losing it from being housebound for what must seem like an eternity for people who don't have ME/CFS.

Yes, and the problem is worsening. I can't tell if it's due to ME or the fact that I haven't done any writing in so many years due to doing everything on the computer. When a new bank card arrived I realised I couldn't quite remember how to sign my name.

Interesting thread on chinese plumbing and sewage: Would explain why so many videos have emerged on social media of authorities welding shut entire apartment buildings. More than the virus itself I'm concerned about supply chain disruptions. So many critical industries have been outsourced...

Useful test. (If you're studying 90 year olds on a dozen meds, with dementia and multiple medical comorbidities.)

The expansion of the CBT lobby into medical illnesses like schizophrenia (with disastrous consequences for patients who require medical treatment for their severe symptoms) is really just a turf war between psychologists and psychiatrists.

IV saline has no long-term effect on the human body. I don't see how it could help produce apparent improvements and even remissions 6 months out.

Some people would argue that depression is a metabolic disturbance in the brain. Therefore, it's no wonder it is associated with physical inactivity and alterations in sleep cycle, appetite etc.

This conclusion would seem to be contradicted by a more recent study Ryan referenced above which suggested that orthostatic hyperventilation comes after. https://doi.org/10.1161/hypertensionaha.113.02824

That's disturbing. I know someone who got told orthostatic symptoms were due to 'fear of standing'.