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It's good to see a letter in The Times on this. However, I think the last sentence could have been phrased better. Neil Riley wrote: 'It is sad that it has taken a pandemic to persuade the medical profession to take long-term viral infection seriously.' The medical profession does generally...

From the Hammer and Drift article: I've read something to the effect that antigenic drift is much less common in coronavirus than influenza, so evasion of any previously conferred immunity by new strains due to accumulation of mutations in surface proteins may be possible, but is unlikely...

Hilda Bastian responds to John Ioannidis' Stat News opinion piece. A rebuttal to "A fiasco in the making?" 18 March 2020 http://hildabastian.net/index.php/8-secondary/87

I'm afraid I haven't read anything by the WHO specific to isolating on coming into contact with a confirmed or suspected case. Concerning the specifics of isolating, the PHE guidance has a bit more detailed information than the basic guidance that is circulating. Some of this I consider useful...

I think illustrations of this would include a family member taking drinks, food, Paracetamol or the like to an infected person. To be clear concerning today's WHO press briefing, the period described for continuing the described measures was a minimum of 14 days after symptoms cease.

Contrasting with UK government advice, in the media briefing, Tedros Adhanom also stated that measures to reduce risk of transmission whilst in isolation due to being infected with coronavirus should be continued for 14 days after symptoms cease...

A German group has performed a literature review of how long previously known coronaviruses remain on surfaces at varying temperatures. The results summary is as follows: https://www.journalofhospitalinfection.com/article/S0195-6701(20)30046-3/fulltext

Blinding may be unnecessary, but please divest BMJ 2020; 368 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.m255 (Published 23 January 2020) Fiona Godlee, editor in chief https://www.bmj.com/content/368/bmj.m255

I just wanted to add my thanks to you and Mary Dimmock, @Dx Revision Watch. As others have said, it must've taken an incredible amount of work and perseverance, and the precise, detailed updates have also been much appreciated. Thank you.

I think this was the General Health Questionnaire 28.

I completely misread this on a first pass.

My understanding from the full implementation guidance for 'IAPT-LTC' is that there is no requirement for anxiety or depression to be present to refer for MUS, though the document states that 70% of people with MUS will experience a depression or anxiety disorder. However the PHQ-9 is used...

From a quick look at the 9 May upload and the March upload which announced Jennifer McIntosh, there doesn't appear to be any change, including to 'job title/organisation'.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1834992/pdf/bmj00310-0013.pdf

Looks like Andy's post covers it, but I thought I'd post the following anyway. Short 1995 paper, first-named author is Russell Lane (co-author of Oxford). Ppts met Oxford Criteria. 43 of 96 participants were screened, 18 of which (42%) met criteria for psychiatric caseness. Exercise responses...

I don't think the telephone-delivered CBT arm self-help manual has been posted yet: https://docplayer.net/58045265-Actib-trial-regul-8-manual-for-a-self-management-programme-for-ibs-regul8-actib-assessing-cognitive.html

It isn't possible to say whether different interests were determined inconsistently because we don't have complete information as to how decisions were reached for each interest. I noted above that an identical interest held by two members was ostensibly determined inconsistently (and why I...

Personally I don't think it is a good idea to write. We don't know what factors into each decision and the inconsistency I noted above is between two individuals that we do not want further restricted (Weir and Shepherd). Members will be aware if they are being excluded to any extent and if...

You mean William Weir, not Luis Nacul? Shepherd is more restricted than Weir, on this interest. It's possible individual circumstances have impacted the difference in application. From another angle, they are both co-signatories to another open letter (the Forward ME open letter, Patients with...