I'm a subscriber but it's paywalled so I'll share the rough gist of the NS article: 25 patients compared to 15 controls. Blood samples analysed...
Was just coming to post this, you beat me to it :) Paper here: https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8247/15/8/931
Popping up after a long-time absence to share this pretty good editorial from New Scientist: Long covid – the best thing that ever happened to...
Got my copy of Private Eye through the post and it's... not bad? Or at least progress.
I don't disagree with the attribution point (hence my caveat about fairness), and certainly don't mean to imply any level of collective guilt. My...
Now I'm back home and my PEM has subsided I thought I would expand on this point a bit more and give some more context/examples. My post above was...
I’ll try and expand on my original post in due course as a short walk yesterday means I feel like I’m being trepanned today. However, to be clear,...
It’s an excellent article and I’m pleased he’s not got sidetracked on the ‘physical/psychiatric’ debate but made clear the evidence doesn’t...
Because it’s pretty clear they found no difference with the placebo group. Both groups showed some improvement almost certainly due to the placebo...
The fascinating part will be once the paper is released and whether we see the autoantibodies that the Imperial team claim to have detected match...
This field is crying out for replication studies and (to my untrained, somewhat uninformed try) this is yet another study finding similar...
Feature article is here: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25033403-600-long-covid-do-i-have-it-how-long-will-it-last-and-can-we-treat-it/
Very good leader in this week's New Scientist, which has Long Covid as a cover story. Behind a paywall so only posting excerpts: IN JUNE last...
Discussed further here:...
I believe Montoya et al also found correlation between IP-10 (aka CXCL10) and ME/CFS severity: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28760971/
The weird thing is that many people (especially doctors) who have had lengthy but temporary post-viral fatigue are unable to explain the mechanism...
Yep, I said something similar a while back: I think a related point is similar to the old 'Reddit hug of death': if you tweet about having...
Hopefully not too off-topic, but is there a good understanding of what causes short-term post-viral fatigue? Seems that a lot of post-COVID...
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24632881-400-why-strange-and-debilitating-coronavirus-symptoms-can-last-for-months/ Not a great piece, bit...
Desktop, Windows 10, Firefox 77.0.1. Do you receive a confirmatory email after registering? I haven't received one but don't know if that's a...
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