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Bit of a funny thing about that. I'm a horrible singer. I have a good musical hear, but my vocal cords are, uh, let's say defective. I can hit most notes, they just sound terrible. I think they're actually somewhat broken in the middle, my voice breaks in mid-range. I'm better at making...

Are the researchers not aware of the concept of co-morbidity? It does? OK. I guess it's because of the way it is. I mean if someone says it, it must be true? It really self-defeats the purpose to advise to think "holistically", then try to, somehow, isolate symptoms from its context. This...

Long haulers are still just as dismissed as ever. From patient forums I see very little change, nothing substantial anyway, since the only relevant substance is in the form of useful treatments, and there still aren't any. Real research efforts haven't even begun yet, the whole system is still...

Oh boy. They literally take note that the patients are basically telling them "this is nice, I guess, but it's medically useless" and can't even process it. Saying it's complementary to medicine means exactly that. But a generation of alternative medicine thinking creeping into medicine has made...

The thing that bothers me the most about this is that I can't for the life of me process what these people imagine are the benefits of feigning, consciously or not. As specialists they obviously know that there are no benefits, that even if someone, somehow, gets recognized as being cognitively...

I have no idea where else to put this. Continuing on the issue of idiopathic hepatitis cases, the leading speculation is that following 2 years of reduced social contact, children were less exposed to viruses, like adenovirus, thus leaving them... more susceptible to adenovirus? I don't follow...

Honestly, it would never be possible to invent this in a story, it's just too ridiculous to make it up. Reminds me way too much of the people who made the Earth the center of the universe. How they can think this is uniquely Swedish, I guess it must because of the underlying beliefs that this is...

I fully assume that everything biopsychosocial will be excluded, as it's "not settled" yet. Even though it's "settled enough" to impose it coercively. And that it will actually be used against us, even though we actually have the truth on our side. Good grief how medicine is political. And few...

I see one topic here. There is only one, it's the thing that's missing: professional healthcare. They're all variations, or facets, of the same thing. But it's so absent, so glaring in its lack of presence, that in listing the top 5 themes, all 5 add up to the same. Although I guess they did not...

I saw a front page with it. Headline says "will save billions". I'm not sure at this point how the point isn't made directly: if we just don't treat anyone, we can save 100% of the money. Well, 100% of the money that goes to direct healthcare expenditures anyway. It's seriously as if healthcare...

I'm noticing lots of concern over unexplained liver and kidney damage being seen in many countries. Many likely have noticed the controversy over unexplained cases of liver failure, and the debate over whether the widely circulating virus known to cause organ damage may be at cause. But it's...

1 in 5 Educators Say They’ve Experienced Long COVID https://www.edweek.org/leadership/1-in-5-educators-say-theyve-experienced-long-covid/2022/04 Two years into the pandemic, many Americans are eager to leave COVID behind. But that won’t be so easy for as many as 1 in 5 educators who, according...

I really do hope to see more pseudoscience adopting the BPS formula. It works, you can report whatever you want with it, as long as the conclusions are vague enough to be interpreted whatever way one feels like.

This is just plain weird. Medicine has a weird case of the "may be"s. Where if only the things they imagined were true, well, they would be true, I guess. Why don't we just pay these people to stare at a wall instead? It would be more productive.

Moved from the Long covid in the media and social media thread Short interview with a pro hockey player for the Vancouver Canucks, who has ben out the whole season with Long Covid. Seems mostly to have significant shortness of breath.

When you literally define more somatization as having more symptoms, people with more symptoms will appear to have more somatization. One could define being smart as having more money if they feel like it, weird biases should not be a factor in science. It makes as much sense as defining...

I'm unable to find a thread for the study. I think it was discussed before, I just can't find it. This is about the Irish-funded exercise study at St-James Hospital that was promoted by the Irish health minister yesterday. Not long ago there was something about a multi-million grant to study...

Double irony to the fact that it won't even do that. So they are paying money, millions it seems, to remain in place, as it won't change anything. Shmart.