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Who is Tracy King and what is it she is worried about - her job?

I am fairly sure this is the first one from the April. The individual data one was sent out to review in the July and has not been seen since.

Where's @dave30th? I was with him a few hours ago at Houses of Parliament - having watched the swans in St James's Park for a bit..

Someone authoritative has said not but I cannot give an official statement. It is pretty unlikely to get published if this is withdrawn since it also has the PACE authors on it as authors.

I have a feeling it is a bit like 'You are just going out side and may be some time.' They have had a year already to address the feedback from the update review that got trashed. They are now having their previous version withdrawn. I don;t think this is likely to reappear.

Well, @Esther12 at least it looks as if the Larun review has gone down! Unless I have misread this - on another thread.

Well I'm mad, and proud of it, and so might you be too, but maybe we are perspicacious with it?

It's crazy. Why doesn't Nature do a piece saying how scandalous this is? Nobody cares any more about reality. Everything is gloss.

I am bound by a promise of confidentiality but I can assure you that this is not the case. 'They' are trying to get this right. It is a seriously difficult thing to achieve within the rules because of all sorts of Catch22s, but the people trying to set the committee up are not trying to...

I think the important thing is to establish whether treatments work or not - or whether we have reliable evidence of that. If CBT and GET are not cost effective it is just because of not being effective. Adequate care might be more expensive. It would probably involve doctors much more, who...

Something is going on beneath the surface. It is not entirely clear what. It seems peculiar that Chinese herbs should get the first chop, so to say. Although it may not actually be the first chop. More transparent would certainly help.

I would suggest waiting for a while to see how things unfold.

I have not received a no. But don't ask further.

I think it is probably fair to say the 2007 review was influenced by the PACE trial. By then PACE was under way and the results had been reliably arranged. The NICE committee was very likely informed that these results were going according to plan, even if recruitment was annoyingly slow. And...

Much the commonest reason for dehydration is water loss through sweating in heat or during exertion. Sweat contains a reasonable amount of sodium. Salty water is disgusting for some reason so I expect salty crisps were thought to be a good alternative - probably fair enough. Where I think the...

Right, but sometimes I worry that irony gets lost when people are asking for genuine advice.

Except that the article points out that this is bonkers. Dehydration is shortage of water so any water will help.

I don't think any sugar is needed for rehydration. The WHO advice is for children with diarrhoea who presumably benefit from sugar because they cannot eat anything solid. Rehydration just needs water. If there has been salt loss from sweating or potassium loss from diarrhoea then there may be...

I strongly suspect the project was a waste of time - asking students questions in a 'qualitative study'. One of the commenters makes the point that ethics committees have to protect people who feel obliged to help - like students and junior staff, from repeated intrusive requests to be part of...

Yes, indeed. It could get to a new place and stay there. Or it could maybe flip flop between states. You see that with paroxysmal atrial tachycardia. But PWME are not in one of two states. They go up and down in various steps and often fairly gradually as I understand it. And there does not seem...