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So here's a statin story about someone who had no problem with statins on paper, but whose doctors thought they did because of the statin rebellion - and it turns out statins were actually bad in this instance. My wife has a channelopathy. It has been demonstrated through genetic testing. It's...

With all due respect, not always, at least in terms of the precise thing. Or perhaps relevance? A test can be precise, but not good at evaluating what it is suppose to, is what I am trying to get at. Even taking this as a given, clinicians and researchers alike accept or discard ranges as their...

Sorry, @Dudden , I did not explain myself well. I was trying to figure out what error it is to say someone can "age more slowly". Age and time go hand in hand. You cannot age more quickly or slowly. Your body can show signs of aging more rapidly or slowly - there are diseases that do this. But...

You mean the same way psychiatrists believed that Soviet political dissidents were not against Stalin but were actually beset by an otherwise unexplained illness that was psychological in nature, and helped send those dissidents to the gulag?

"Could treating it help us all age more slowly?" We all know what the author is getting at here. But what grammatical error is this? It's not a tautology. It's not an oxymoron. It's not right but for the life of me I cannot recall what it is called and I used to teach this shit. Clearly, my...

Fort Detrick, home of the 8 Ball, at one time likely the worlds largest microbe sphere? The same Ft Detrick that at times acted as the de facto wateringhole for importees of Operation Paperclip, just downstream from Plum Island? I do not find it surprising that there might be a psych component...

Very long and sobering In Memoriam section: http://www.ncf-net.org/memorial.htm

If their MRI's aren't up to the task of demonstrating WHERE the cognitive deficits arise, then either the technology isn't up to snuff, or they haven't learned yet how to see and correctly interpret what it does show. We well know what blunt tools neurocognitive tests are, and how they routinely...

SPECT scans might be useful but they are frowned upon in my neck of the wood (medically speaking), probably because they show something amiss on a fairly reliable basis.

Early Lyme investigators threw antibiotics at their young patients, and when those often failed, concluded that Lyme was of a viral etiology. They were wrong. It would take a few years to realize the causative agent behind the single strain of microbe infecting neighborhoods around Lyme CT was...

You've touched upon one of the main talking points set forth in Kris Newby's new book. Except she does not explore lethal bioweapons. She looks at the US government's efforts to develop non-lethal bioagents, agents of incapacitation, over a 25-year period immediately following WWII. Those...

Eniwetok is a Marshall Island! It's like living in a Tom Clancy novel, in a silly and not-so-much kind of way.lol The US did a lot of Biowarfare research through the '50's and '60's. Ironically, supposedly Nixon put a stop to it around 1970 - but I don't think anyone really believes it's...

This doesn't qualify as news, so I hope no one minds, but it is specific to Pacific Islands. Does anyone remember the Hong Kong flu from the late '60's? Lots of people all around the world got sick with it. Many died. I was living in the Marshall Islands in the late '60's. In '68, basically...

If you interject a biowarfare component to a conversation such as this five or ten years ago, you would be dismissed. Today, there'd be friction, but ears are listening.

This is just a retrospective. A faint whiff of old poop.

"This case supports that establishing the accurate diagnosis and early symptom management are crucial for rehabilitation in CFS" Maybe. Or maybe the infection took two years to resolve (or go into remission) and the child improved despite these interventions, or with their help. Point being...

What a good read. Excellent writer. Interesting theories. I suspect a spate of inquiries worldwide for reliable testing for Rickettsia Helvetica... ETA: Ian Lipkin has a cameo. :)

Interesting that the proportion who, in effect, remain sick is 20%. Again.

That pesky immune dysfunction. I recently developed eczema on both hands. I was prescribed steroid ointment for it, and the doctor advised that I wear rubber gloves all the time to keep the ointment from coming off because, you know, it's my hands. I am not doing that because, you know, IT"S MY...

One could try to figure out the cause of the low-grade inflammation and "mediate" the crap out of that. It would spare everyone the risk of drawing the wrong inferences from a questionable data set.