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I hadn't heard of Patricia Murray before. https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/people/patricia-murray Interested to see that she began her career as a nurse. Perhaps this helped her to see medical claims in terms of their impact on patients rather than on the researchers' careers.

Saw this in a Mastodon thread today about the World Conference on Research Integrity. https://mastodon.online/@tomstafford/114301415246307147

Researchers missed a trick not including healthy controls. If caffeine also improves the walk distance, perceived fatigue and so on of control participants, then they've found a treatment that can support healthy people being rehabilitated from, um, healthiness.

Did they check whether all the confirmed ME/CFS diagnosed patients passed this test?

OK! Yes, probably safest.

I'll try and do this later.

And followed up the subjects for a year, so we could see how many *actually* recovered enough to resume their old lives, and how many ran on fumes for a few months and then crashed.

It's a shame things sometimes get sensationalised to make an eye-catching title. Plenty of people don't find tracking a gift or a curse, just something that helps a bit (or doesn't).

Long-term effects of SARS-CoV-2 infection on blood vessels and blood pressure – LOCHINVAR Where did they get the H?

I can say the first three or four syllables of 'Deteriorative' but my chances of getting anyone else to understand the whole word would be slim! What's a word meaning the same sort of thing but easier to pronounce?

Thank you for keeping up with all these.

Chalder Fatigue Questionnaire. [sound of someone scrunching up paper and dropping it in the bin]

I've tried to see how this compares with the asymmetrical results found in 'Glymphatic system dysfunction in recovered patients with mild COVID-19: A DTI-ALPS study' https://www.cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S2589-0042(23)02724-4 but it's too many words for me Forum thread here...

Which frontbenchers have indicated that they might resign?

I mean in the ME Association piece.

https://meassociation.org.uk/2025/03/the-me-association-fervently-refutes-the-psychosomatic-model-of-causation-applies-to-me-cfs-or-indeed-long-covid/ "The ME Association fervently refutes the psychosomatic model of causation applies to ME/CFS or indeed Long Covid" Unfortunately, just saying...

yikes

“[The media] presented long Covid as an unequivocal pathological result of a viral infection. [A psychosomatic] cause wasn’t even touched on." This obvious untruth alone ought to get her laughed out of any serious discussion. But instead she does the rounds of podcasts and promotional...

Just got some routine blood test results so I've added my vote (for 1-2). Previous tests 3 months into Long Covid: CRP was 2, eosinophils high, plasma viscosity high, everything else tested was within normal ranges. Recent tests 3 years into Long Covid: CRP is 1, eosinophils still high, plasma...