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Event in October this year: " Event Details The words ‘Integrated Care’ currently feature in every health briefing, newsletter and policy document, but what exactly does it mean and what does it look like in practice? For people with Persistent Physical Symptoms as a result of a long term...

Chris Burton, who is on the NICE panel reviewing the ME/CFS guidelines, is behind this study apparently. Note that an earlier version used the term chronic fatigue syndrome instead of chronic fatigue. http://www.isrctn.com/editorial/retrieveFile/6b3d6b51-92b3-4825-89a8-9060bf0da471/35773...

Blog by @Brian Hughes https://notthesciencebit.net/2018/11/03/the-triumph-of-eminence-based-medicine/

Moderator note: This post and following posts have been moved from this thread What role should the public play in science? - Science Weekly podcast The Guardian's Science Weekly podcast , 2 Nov 2018...

Article in today's Guardian (https://amp.theguardian.com/society/2018/oct/24/diabetes-ticking-time-bomb-nhs) about diabetes being a time-bomb for the NHS. This bit: "Professor Khalida Ismail, professor of psychiatry and medicine at King’s College London and an honorary consultant liaison...

"Ovary-reacting???!!! :woot::wtf::arghh::banghead: Read the whole post by ISHO (In Susan's Humble Opinion) here: https://ishoblog.com/2018/10/18/pass-the-snuff-and-loosen-the-corsets-theyre-back-to-researching-hysteria/?fbclid=IwAR3auNOacrDAvo08nkuRdpYynFghkQe_3kFphx5Amb-C9XoA8ygVh4ulxz0

Paywalled at http://psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2Fhea0000621

Open access at https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0205278

Defining the minimally clinically important difference of the SF-36 physical function subscale for paediatric CFS/ME: triangulation using three different methods Amberly Brigden Roxanne M Parslow Daisy Gaunt Simon M Collin Andy Jones Esther Crawley...

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2055102918805187

For anyone interested in how things got going leading down the current path of BPS. It's a long article and sadly I did not read the whole thing. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5795290/

Recently registered study https://www.anzctr.org.au/Trial/Registration/TrialReview.aspx?id=375190

https://bjgp.org/content/68/674/442 Don't have the access to full text, but I don't know if I want to. My blood is already boiling. This part is interesting: How can it be justified? How bent are these people writing this nonsense?

God help us: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30249136

This is so dreadful I don't even know where to start in order to give a recap. :cry::cry::arghh: Lightning Process (LP) coach Live Landmark has written a letter to the editor defending LP as treatment for ME. Dette sier forskningen om Lightning Process og ME google translation: This is what...

I'm currently working my way through this tome, so thought I'd start a thread on it so that anyone else who has read it (and those who haven't) can join in and discuss it here. The symposium was held at the Ciba Foundation, London, 12-14th of May in 1992. The publisher's description of the...

I'm trying to get an answer to the following two questions on the BPS treatment trial evidence base and wonder if anyone knows off the top of their head. I'm just looking for a very rough estimate and am not asking for anyone to do any research AHRQ did its evidence review based on studies in...

Seems like MS still has friends in the UK at Oxford University: An ode to Michael's tremendous work (wondering who wrote this, I nearly choked while reading...): And the best (this was suposedly revised in 2018!): Direct...

Free full text: https://bmjpaedsopen.bmj.com/content/2/1/e000299 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjpo-2018-000299

Really just adding this to the calendar: Topic: ‘Medically unexplained symptoms’: my clinical and research journey over 30 years 13th March 2019 Visiting speaker: Prof Trudie Chalder (King’s College London) Chair: Prof Patrick Luyten Location: G12, 1-19 Torrington Place...