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I proposed that despite seeing this. The thought was that if NICE is unwilling to say that patients should receive no treatment, then we could at least get them to recommend some fairly harmless supplements over potentially dangerous GET. It's a political move. But I agree it makes us look like...

How can we put a stop to this? There is clearly a systemic problem with researchers just spewing self serving bullshit instead of doing a proper job. You don't need to read their studies anymore because you know that the conclusion will inevitably be: CBT can treat everything effectively and...

I feel uneasy when Collins is getting criticized harshly.

Why not offer checking for common comorbidities such as POTS, OI, food intollerances, and all the thing slisted in here? Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Diagnosis and Management in Young People: A Primer https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5474682/ I know you don't...

Psychological therapy for medically unexplained symptoms https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/415890/ Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Medically Unexplained Symptoms: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Published Controlled Trials https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5559983/

I think that significant psychological harm could be avoided merely by having doctors confirm that this isn't something patients can control, and not psychogenic. In doing so they protect the patient from frustrated family members, employers, teachers, and probably also are in better position to...

Invest in ME pointed out that the Lightning Process is mentioned in the scoping document.

These authors made similar claims for the CCC. It is not accurate to say they claimed that the IOM criteria select patients with depression as they excluded patients with depression beforehand. Rather they claimed that the IOM criteria "tend to select patients with depressive symptoms." with no...

Sharpe has proven himself to be a master actor and gaslighter. Still pretending that everything is OK and it's only some silly patients that are misunderstanding everything.

Ask him why he thinks unblinded subjective self reporting produces reliable results, and how he can defend this view in light of the rest of medicine consdering this methodology flawed, and whether he thinks that homeopathy could have obtained positive results as well with such methodology...

It sounds like the nanoneedle biosensor is very sensitive as it can detect this abnormality even in mildly ill patients. Which probably means that there's going to be other illnesses with the same problem. It will still be revolutionary.

Non cardiac chest pain is often costochondritis or gastroesophageal reflux disease. Maybe panic or anxiety aren't mentioned because these two common problems haven't been ruled out (not to mention various other problems that can cause chest pain), and having anxiety in a situation with chest...

The best part is that they're going to publish their findings and make the severely ill study data available. This should stimulate interest.

KIR locus. Edit: it's related to NK cells. See here https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK10135/

It seems to be a thing: Conscious sedation interview for psychogenic pseudosyncope https://sci-hub.hk/https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0163-8343(13)00068-6 Drugs used in the linked study: midazolam and methohexital (used in anesthesia). I know that drugs for anesthesia can make...

Are you saying that he was given a mind altering drug and then interviewed? It does sound a bit like it.

It occurred to me that finding more psychological factors in patients with otherwise difficult to explain symptoms could merely be a consequence of the diagnostic algorithm, which is something like this: First they rule out the most serious organic illnesses. Then the most common organic...

Is there an experiment that can reliably induce fever through what can be reasonably called psychological stress?

What do you think about EUROMENE? Do you have any plans for collaboration? I'm asking because the US seems to be moving ahead with research while most of Europe is about 30 years behind while it could contribute significantly to research.

Why is anyone surprised that the LP trial reported positive results? That is the expected result in an unblinded trial with subjective measures involving an intervention that consists of brainwashing to deny one's symptoms.