[MEDIA] Comments on the CDC evidence review on ME/CFS In a previous blog post, we summarized the draft report of a systematic review on the...
I don't understand why in Appendix F. Risk of Bias for Randomized Controlled Trials (starting on page 228) all trials received the label "Yes" for...
My reservations have little to do with the specifics of the test but with the separation between ME/CFS patients and ICF patients. My expectation...
Ok but why the almost perfect separation between those who meet ME/CFS criteria and those who don't? If one time in the future something...
I agree with Hutan. This looks too good to be true. All the male ME/CFS patients had a reduction in workload while all the male ICF patients had...
[MEDIA] Summary of the CDC evidence review The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have commissioned a systematic review on the...
Thanks, yes I plan to work something out if I find the energy and submit it to a journal.
Split from Effect of Galantamine Hydrobromide in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome A Randomized Controlled Trial, 2004, Blacker et al.. The quote in this...
New blog post: Problems with the MetaBLIND study [MEDIA] The MetaBLIND study is likely the largest study on the effect of blinding in randomized...
Seems that the study was funded by a pharmaceutical company. It reads: Some of the researchers involved in the study: Behan in the UK, Van der...
Seems that they have also excluded this Belgian RCT on methylphenidate because of "inadequate duration". Given the many flaws the studies that...
This is apparently the largest drug trial ever done in ME/CFS patients. It tested the use of galantamine (an acetyl-cholinesterase inhibitor that...
(Note that this is an old study from 2004) Abstract Context: There is no established pharmacological treatment for the core symptoms of chronic...
It seems that this trial by Cleare and Wessely on hydrocortisone reported in the Lancet was excluded (I suppose because the treatment duration of...
Thanks. I think it is sometimes underestimated how influential this Dutch group has been. They have for example published by far the most trials...
They did include the following study: Stubhaug B, Lie SA, Ursin H, et al. Cognitive-behavioural therapy v. mirtazapine for chronic fatigue and...
There are a couple of non-randomized studies that showed that employment/hours worked do not increase after CBT. My personal impression is that a...
The report mentions both the PACE authors' post-hoc definition of recovery and the one they had specified in the protocol. Unfortunately, they...
It seems that the big CBT trial by Prins et al. (published in 2001 in The Lancet) was excluded because it didn't use the Fukuda criteria...
Just noticed that Peter Gladwell was also part of this trial on CBT for ME/CFS. The trial report states "The decision was taken to include...
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