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The big reduction in the follow-up period suggests that might be the case. When we find something that really helps, the emphasis is more likely to be on extending the follow-up period to see how long benefit is sustained.

As it's about heeding your own needs instead of listening to cranks, maybe the Domestos Protocol. "Kills 99.9% of all known blatherskite!"

That's a worthwhile study on its own, to be honest.

I guess you could do a study on pwME and controls over the age of 65? There are plenty of sporty older people, of course, but there are also many who're no more active than folk with mild/moderate ME. I rent a bungalow on an independent living development entirely populated by them. A...

There've been people like this as long as humans have had language, though. The narrative changes, but the frame story and devices are the same. The only remedy is to keep reminding people they belong on the same shelf as implausibly-named princes with an urgent need to put eight million...

There's no copyright on names or titles. Trademarks can be registered and protected, but if this isn't sold commercially, it won't have one. It would be quite hard to argue passing off, too, given the limited scope for confusion between an experimental antibody assay and a club for people with...

:laugh: Like the apparatus to measure what percentage of ginger people have in their hair? That was once a thing. Okay, so it was my auntie's neighbour sat in a kiosk at the village fête trying not to look like she worked on the cheese counter at British Home Stores, but she raised quite a bit...

Yup. I decided it wasn't my job to educate them, so after realising the similarity between my needs and those of my elderly relatives, that's how I approached it. With people over 80 the focus is on making the effort of daily living safer and more efficient, so there are fewer risk and adverse...

Typically for me, I've no memory of it whatsoever... :rofl:

Just remembered something else about the approach: I decided to describe my difficulties in the same way you would a frail, elderly person who also has a chronic illness. Aside from the fact that it's pretty damning for young people to have to resort to it in order for their needs to be...

When I had one, I wrote down the five things that were most important to me. Now they could be backed up with sections of the NICE guideline, but mine preceded that. One of them went something like "My biggest priority is saving enough energy for essential things, because I can't increase the...

I'm not so sure about fault, since you only put multiple, positively-spun posts on social media if you're actively trying to hype something. They know that perfectly well. There are lots of people who're desperate to find something that helps, especially if their careers and mortgages are under...

I agree, but would make it brief and straightforward for now. New MPs will feel as if they've been hit by a tornado, and even experienced ones are starting a new job. The economy's in such bad shape that it might be worth highlighting the economic harm caused by long Covid—including the fact...

The axis may be tilted for some of us, but it has to be for the doctors and the ethics board too. They see people with a puzzling but potentially reversible condition, who are (apart from ME/CFS) fairly healthy. It must be difficult to justify use of a risky drug whose benefits are uncertain...

No, but I've just written mine down and will try handing them to my new GP next week! :D Start as you mean to go on, as they say.

It's that bloody word wellness again. These projects can be great for social cohesion, such as bringing together people with very different lives to work on something shared. For giving a voice to people whose stories rarely get heard, like refugees. For reducing isolation, e.g. people whose...

At least they corrected that.

And from what I've read from the sharp-eyed folk who combed through it, the claim of a non-null result depended on that data being thrown out.

The teenagers they've met must be from outer space! A lot of the 13-year-olds I've met don't want to admit in public that they even know their parents, let alone emulate them.

Glaikit crossword no. 3742 1. Touting wordy asinine theory scurrilously, initially (5)