Call centre work typically involves long shifts...interesting that it only seemed to be the pain that was stopping them from working. No insult to people suffering pain. I would have thought that the cognitive processing in ME would also cause severe problems.
Interesting post from Cochrane:
"Cochrane’s support of trial transparency
Cochrane has supported the AllTrials initiative since it started in 2013. AllTrials calls for all past and present clinical trials to be registered and their full methods and summary results reported.
In 2017, Cochrane...
7 March 2018
Our Nuffield Professor of Child Health, Professor Terence Stephenson, was recognised in the New Year Honours list for his services to healthcare and children's health. (2018)
Terence is Nuffield Professor of Child Health at the UCL GOS Institute of Child Health and Honorary...
Terence Stephenson is speakng at EBM live next week @Caroline Struthers Mon at 13.30.
Reducing Questionable Research Practices and Bias
Terence Stephenson
We are all familiar with straightforward fraud. The Lancet paper by Andrew Wakefield alleging evidence of a link between measles, mumps and...
Not enough "capacity to check"!
What about all those PhD students watching people carrying shopping bags. Did it not occur to them to ensure they had enough people to look into this when they put forward their proposal? Sounds like the level of preparation re PACE, when someone used the excuse...
Here is the link to the whole special edition.
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/diagnostics/special_issues/ME_CFS
Includes a paper by McGregor et al, the CureME team, Lenny Jason et al and Frank Twisk re ICC.
It is very concerning to see that Anna Gregorowski was at the meeting. She heads up the UCLH team and the feedback re her approach from parents and youngsters is not good. This is the team that includes Dr Terry Segal.
Dr Terry Segal
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They are heading to the Evidence-based medicine conference in Oxford by the sound of things.
@Caroline Struthers may want to link up with them.
The reason that CFS sits in uncomfortable territory between medicine and psychiatry is because Wesseley and his ilk have put it there.
The fact that PwME are uncomfortable with psych therapies is that they are promoted as curative not supportive.
I do not think that even W & Co are promoting...
A brief glance suggests that this paper has similarities with Neil McGregor's talk at the EMERGE conference.
I have just read thro' Cort's summary from HR produced on 15 June 2019. It mentions histone acetylation alongside the problems of glycolysis etc.
Yes, it is hugely insulting to me as a person with low back pain! Actually the video is worse than I thought as it brings in deconditioning and also says that finding a baseline will allow you do all the usual activities of daily livingeven on a bad day. On bad days I cannot...
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