Cortisol - my favourite measure Plasma cortisol mol/L Patients Mean 334 Standard deviation 151 Controls Mean 349 Standard deviation 202...
Yes, it's like they don't want to say 'there is no effective treatment'. 'poorly responsive to several allopathic and alternative therapies'...
That final author is the BPS Wyller. (crosspost) Note the definition of CFS - 3 months of unexplained fatigue of new onset. The paper notes...
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28494812/ Whole blood gene expression in adolescent chronic fatigue syndrome: an exploratory cross-sectional study...
(Thread created at the request of a member) IQWIG The independent Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (Institut für Qualität und...
It's not the worst review I've seen, but you know that's a very low bar. Sorry, but this is disappointing, it seems superficial. It doesn't...
This reinforces the need for epidemiological studies of the prevalence of ME/CFS and Long Covid in some of the parts the world that are so often...
This is important. There is IACFSME - I can't see them organising an international response, but can anyone in that organisation say what...
I have a bit of sympathy with that point too. I think the NICE Guideline made energy management/pacing sound a lot more like a therapy, a lot...
That would be the Chronic Pain Guideline, the one that recommends acupuncture and did not involve patient organisations. The guideline that...
They (the BPS people) have been busy. They don't seem to have even got all the things they think they agree with right: [ATTACH] It's actually...
In Nature Cardiovascular Research, authors are associated with Department of Cardiology, Smidt Heart Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los...
Yes. I think it is particularly needed if Stanford is still prescribing Abilify to new ME/CFS patients. Like I said, there could be a trial done...
Yes. I've said it before, even if we can't achieve anything at all, our contribution to human progress can still be greater than that provided by...
Patient groups might have had a fair excuse before translations facilities on the internet. Now it's just a matter of running papers through some...
[MEDIA] Interview between Amy Proal and Ilene Ruhoy, 2021
That sounds about right to me. It took about 4 years before I was tested to rule out an endocrine disorder, and that was as a result of a lot of...
It is interesting - to get statistically significant results with such a small sample suggests that there might be something here. The...
Some posts have been moved to a new thread: USA: Long Covid clinics
I'm sure you are right. But they suggest that this paper is important. It is far from the first paper to find symptom overlaps between Long...
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