Reference 9 is Bateman L., Bested A.C., Bonilla H.F., Chheda B.V., Chu L., Curtin J.M., et al. Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome:...
It looks as though they have collected up a range of poorly evidenced statements about biological characteristics of ME/CFS. And assumed that...
Abstract Chronic fatigue syndrome is a neurological disorder characterized by extreme fatigue that lasts for a long time and doesn't alleviate...
I would mention the wide range of diseases that can cause ME/CFS - starting with EBV/glandular fever, because many people know people who took a...
A reminder that we have this thread to talk about acupuncture generally Acupuncture and other traditional Chinese medicine news and discussion...
Acupuncture and moxibustion for chronic fatigue syndrome: A systematic review and network meta-analysis, 2022, Fang et al A review of mostly...
For example, from 4.3 of the Supplementary materials on the Chalder Fatigue Scale - total score outcome: [ATTACH] This is a map of the actual...
Re 'Western medicine' There were only 4 studies with 'western medicine' Xiao 2014 - Vitamin B1 +B6+oryzanol+paroxetine vs Moxibustion Huang 2017 -...
Of the 51 studies, only 11 have a control arm (rather than multiple treatments). Actually most of the control arms were potentially blinded....
So, as far as I can work out so far: The selection of participants is poor, with a Fukuda criteria meaning that the participants have chronic...
Looking at the search terms, regarding the names of the disease are No Myalgic Encephalomyelitis, no ME/CFS There are Chinese language searches...
I thought I'd have a look at the one study reportedly done in Australia. That's all of the details provided in the references. There is no...
It's all pretty opaque with so many studies testing different things. From Limitations, it looks as though the quality of the studies was low:...
So, yes, Fukuda. I'm not clear what the outcomes considered are yet, apart from the hopelessly flawed Chalder Fatigue Scale is one. FS-14 is the...
No mention of PEM as a distinguishing symptom. It does review some Chinese language papers, which is useful; it will be including papers that...
It's not starting super well.
I am assessing a recommendation by a doctor for acupuncture for ME/CFS, supported by this paper. I think all of the individual studies on...
Abstract Background: Research into acupuncture and moxibustion and their application for chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) has been growing, but the...
We have made a new discussion thread on SOD3 Superoxide dismutase, SOD, SOD3
https://www.thehastingscenter.org/what-is-preventable-about-obesity/ The Hastings Center often has thought-provoking essays on bioethics topics.
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