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The subject of generics and non-generics puzzles me too. Imagine Pharma Company A invents Drug Z. While A makes Z under patent, Z is not a generic. When the patent runs out, and Pharma Companies B, C and D start making Z then B, C, and D are making a generic version. Under those circumstances I...

If I click on your first link I only see the above 2 tweets. If I click on your second link I get asked to sign up or log in. I can't bypass that request in any way.

@Keela Too @Art Vandelay Very weird... I always have problems with Twitter on Firefox. I can see more when I use Chrome. But I still can't find a way to see all 92 tweets. I can see this thread : which contains only one post by cfs_research plus some posts by other people responding to it...

1) I'm surprised that Twitter handle wasn't snapped up years ago. 2) The account statistics suggest 92 tweets have been tweeted by that account, but I can only see two. :( (I don't have an account.)

I wonder how far this idea will be taken. I can see circumstances where it would make life a lot harder for patients. This whole post relies on a very poor understanding of statistics (by me). Imagine the following scenario... 1) A blood testing laboratory re-evaluates its reference range for...

ROC?

There are lots of links on the subject online - these are just the first two that I found : Title : Gender bias in research: how does it affect evidence based medicine? Link : https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1761670/#!po=2.27273 Title : Most scientific studies only use male...

Notice that the link I gave was written in 1986. It isn't very recent. But I believe it wasn't until the 1990s that the powers-that-be said researchers must start including women in their experimental groups. At the time I posted I tried finding the research that was being referred to but...

I must have very different tastes. I find that picture very, very creepy.

You might have Eustachian Tube Dysfunction : https://patient.info/health/earache-ear-pain/eustachian-tube-dysfunction

Yuck! That picture of SW gives me the creeps.

Sorry, I was overcome by laziness. I was actually referring to the first page after the title page and every reference to CBT and GET thereafter in the document.

This link from the front page is horrifying : https://www.bacme.info/sites/bacme.info/files/file-attachments/BACME%20Therapy%20%26%20Symptom%20Management%20Guide.pdf

Many doctors in the UK won't treat hypothyroidism until TSH is > 10 and Free T4 is below the reference range. It is institutionalised torture for many people. From this link (NICE Clinical Knowledge Summaries, which carry approximately zero weight)...

I'm past menopause so I should have plenty of iron without supplementing. I'm a meat eater, including liver, so I should have plenty of iron without supplementing. I'm not aware of me losing blood from the GI tract. I'm not anaemic, but past experience tells me that I would develop it very...

It's just above middle of the reference range, which is fine.

I was concerned because I have read that the body usually has a lot of difficulty getting rid of excess iron, and yet mine got rid of a high level in a fairly short time, so I'm wondering how that happens. If I don't supplement at all then my ferritin and serum iron drop to bottom of range or...

I passed menopause many years ago, and yet I still have to supplement iron. :( I do have problems with my gut, and it is probably a factor in my losing iron so quickly, although I don't think it explains everything. I struggle with anything acidic - digestive enzymes, vitamin C, caprylic acid...

I have problems holding on to iron. It's a common trait in my extended family. My TIBC (Total Iron Binding Capacity) is always either low in range or below range, and I wonder if this is relevant to my problem, because low TIBC is normally found when iron levels are high. I supplement iron...

And if you are perceived as doing lots of "hunting around for different doctors" this is referred to as doctor shopping in the UK, and has been used as an example of criminal behaviour (by the prosecution) in at least one court case ...