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It is also fairly easy for children to be quite sedentary- whether it is intended or unintended. So the behaviors of underperforming at school, becoming couch bound, having vague symptoms but feeling ok enough to go to school, all can be camouflaged, to a degree. And then teens, they really like...

i have met people on mobility scooters, asking me what i got and telling me their doctor never diagnosed them with anything but got sick from viral illness. (Not that i would diagnose them or anything) i think some astute thinking physicians are worried about labelling their patients (adult...

i agree @Lucibee. One good example of something you can’t really blind would be IV fluids. Some people swear it helps them, while others are simply sipping from their cup. You can’t blind IV therapy, because you know if it’s going in and sometimes you can tell whether it’s fast or slow.

hi @MikeK When you mention blood pooling that you notice mostly when you are horizontal, i wonder if you see your legs or most typically your feet and ankle more swollen? Because for blood pooling, it is for the most part gravity driven. So if you are horizontal then the blood pooling would go...

It seems like they are trying to say that some hypothyroid patients are overcomplaining and may have this imaignary illness that they call Central Sensitization Syndrome. It is unfortunate that patients with multiple co-morbidities are not carefully assessed medically and instead are being...

Those cheap paper masks are effective for 5 minutes and not for the finer droplets. If you touch a contaminated surface such as a door knob, and then you fix your mask because your nose is itchy, you have just contaminated the mask. In this instance of a highly virulent disease, the N-95...

Sure, that would help, however it will not change the fact that the virus has already been transported and shared to surrounding countries and overseas.

There was a SARS outbreak in Toronto. I have also read that some went on to develop ME. i forgot where i read that from.

British Columbia announced today they are taking the outbreak seriously by advising hospital staff, emergency services and airports. They said they now have a test for this virus: Just like like that. Not one person affected in the province or even in the country. But they have a diagnostic...

This is an article of a paper that is yet to be published. View here. There is much more to the article, discusses a trial with growth hormone. BIAFAC stands for brain injury associated fatigue and altered cognition. It makes me wonder, how many of us had a genuine concussion prior to...

This is the work of Dr Leonard Jason, a well respected psychologist who happens to do epidemiology as well and who is a patient himself. The type of research he does is not typically blood based, though sometimes he collaborates with scientists on the biological side. His work is very much based...

Cancer doesn’t care whether you eat fruits, veggies, meat, fat, french fries, Paleo, raw, vegan, nothing at all (fasting), donuts, and everything in between. Cancer cells have been programmed to take nutrition from healthy cells.

I don’t think it’s this simple. They are heavily referring to a few physicians who perform their preferred tests (in the case of SPECT scans, only 1 radiologist can read, in Chile)- They are referring to scientific publications- some of which have not been replicated, or only have a few...

Thank you NIH and NINDS but special thank you to the generous private donor.

Thank you so much for your hard work @Emily Taylor and team! you have been consistent in advocacy and in offering opportunities for researchers to advance research and funding for all of us. I look forward to participate in the patient registry.

Let your dr know. It didn’t work well for me either. Rabeprazole worked for a long time and now i am on esomeprazole.

The thing is that you can tell if someone give their best effort or if they don’t. And the Workwell CPET (Betsy Keller too) asks for the perceived exertion through a visual annalog scale, which is administered every 1-2 minutes or so. Then you have the Respiration Exchange Ratio (RER) which can...

Several years ago I felt so horrible and I begged my dr to ‘do something’. She is a bunch of blood tests, one of which was the AM and PM cortisol. It came back flagged at a critical low. Something like 45 when the normal range would be 180-800. I was sent to the endocrinologist, which was...

Patients on beta blockers will not be able to raise their HR higher than that. Ask me how i know ;)

Why a drug trial matters: 1) for the drug to be designated as a treatment for a particular disease. 2) to establish safety and effectiveness for a particular patient population, and to establish most recommended dosage 3) so physicians know it is safe to prescribe to their patients (here in...