It's a not a perfect study. The chronically unwell cohorts were not well characterised, and neither were the controls. There was thinking...
I've posted about this old paper before, but I think the detail must have been on Phoenix Rising. I wasn't in this study, but I have tested...
Abstract Background: Some investigators believe that a proportion of chronically unwell patients, many with fatigue, have an underlying...
Miami didn't initially register on my mental map of CFS psychobabble. Michael H. Antoni seems likely to be the supervisor of this student. He...
A video on the topic of appropriate images has been moved here: Improving images used to depict ME/CFS That thread also has discussion on the...
Doxycycline is used for malaria prophylaxis e.g. this is from the CDC: So prospective travellers can probably get it prescribed in most...
There are a few typos in the paper. Unless I have misunderstood, I think this was the most consequential one I saw - the cPS reduced the time...
They seem to present the 'relatively low-shear environment' and lack of endothelial cells of the TEG as a good thing for experimentation, but of...
There were controls. Thromboelastography - looks like there is a special machine to measure relevant blood clotting parameters. I'm not sure...
On whether microplastics get into blood: (yes, they do)
Label on the article: On the panel is a chiropractor. Dr Mele's qualifications to be giving advice on "chronic fatigue syndrome'? LaSalle...
Yeah, the nincompoops were always there, it's just that they now have Tik Tok et al to gibber on.
As far as I can understand it, there was a plan by BPS proponents to analyse individual patient data in CFS exercise trials, as a Cochrane review....
So, it's definitely not a Cochrane review? I suspect it will give a fairly good impression of one. The protocol mentions using the Cochrane...
Wow, that Bob Montgomery wikipedia entry link in your post is almost incredible, President of The Australian Psychological Society and all.
I've never understood the premise of being aware of heart beats. The BPS people seem to think that being aware of your heart beats is a good...
On the finding that physical impact seems to increase cf-DNA (whereas an increased heart rate does not) Could this, together with the finding...
As @MSEsperanza noted, positivity was relative to the mean of healthy individuals. There isn't any further detail given in this paper but the...
Just noting 68 patients attending the clinic appear to have been diagnosed with FNSD/CD. 9 of these had other conditions that surely might have...
Yet again we find people who use the FND label tripping over themselves. 'These are neurological disorders, but because we don't know what's...
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