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So it's back to work for one-legged tightrope walkers.

In the first three or four months of ME, I experienced a handful of occasions where it fairly suddenly and inexplicably felt like my symptoms had receded significantly. The change only took a minute or so and metaphorically it felt like the "boot had been taken off my neck." This feeling of...

Thanks for your great summary, @Hutan!

Minor point: In order to determine if the diluted tracer concentration indicates that the patient is hypovolemic, you also need to estimate what the patient's normal blood volume should be based on their body size.

Video about the "Magic Glove," a "hypno-anesthetic technique." Oddly enough, using a "hypnotic technique" to distract from the anxiety of injection was presented 50 years ago in the film "The Andromeda Strain."

I get this a few times year. It started years after the onset of ME, so it's hard to say if it's related. My father said he also got these, though he never had ME. It might be genetic in some cases, I suppose. Though I never had a headache with this condition, it did leave me feeling kind of...

[Not sure if this has been posted elsewhere...] Merck has announced that they have developed an antiviral pill, "molnupiravir," that has cut Covid-19 hospitalizations and deaths in half. "The pills could be available by late this year." A limitation of the drug is that, like some other...

I understand that top men are working on the problem of delivering the tiny masks... Top. Men.

Prior to the pandemic, I principally came across these masks at "home improvement" stores like "Home Depot" and "Lowe's," where they were sold for protection against the particles generated by construction work - such as airborne sawdust or fiberglass dust. Those locations rapidly sold out of...

I recently purchased an "Advanced Filtering Face Mask (AFFM)" made by 3M. It claims to filter "at least" 95% of particulate matter, but it does not claim to be an N95 mask because it has not been approved by NIOSH (National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health). They seem to sell these...

You can read the full 2002 article here: https://bjgp.org/content/bjgp/52/478/432.full.pdf It begins on page 8 of the PDF. Actually, the original British Journal of General Practice article was titled "The Dangers of Cartesian Fundamentalism," not "Cartesian Dualism," but earlier versions of...

Although I'm not sure about the two Covid vaccine shots I got this year, I've had numerous vaccinations over the past dozen years or so and I have definitely noticed them pulling back on the plunger a little before making the final injection. Whether they do it every time, I can't swear to, but...

My guess is that, in communism, malingering is considered an existential threat to a system that already has a problem with incentivizing work. Thus, the concept of any disabling disease that cannot be verified by medical tests must be suppressed.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe a knighthood has already been bestowed in this category. Please, no duplicate entries. On the other hand, this citation is certainly food for thought: I just might be open to the argument that Sir Simon is the Art Garfunkel of his field. [Ironically...

"Some people have a way with words, and others, oh...not have way, I guess." - Steve Martin.

I wondered what the exotic sounding "ranscutaneous" form of electrical acupoint stimulation was. Apparently, it's just a typo for "transcutaneous."

I'm not sure that this has been dumbed down enough... :rolleyes:

How many people would get onboard an airplane after the pilot announces "It is my opinion that this plane is probably safe" ?

For more than a decade after onset, I felt considerably more exhausted upon waking than when I went to bed. It may have had something to do with sleep apnea. Specifically, "central sleep apnea," which may result in an irregular breathing pattern due a problem with the brain responding...

I know this technique for measuring PEM has been discussed before, but I am still somewhat skeptical that "gentle compressions" can induce "mild" PEM. The procedure may be altering microRNAs in some way, but how do they know that these changes are related to "a milder form of PEM?" Perhaps I...