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    Ultra Low Dose efficacy Rituximab in autoimmunity, any efficacy?

    Hi all Ive just been reading about Rituximab within the context of autoimmune disease. Im aware of the CD20 and plasma (antibody generating) split within cells, but that for a lot of autoimmune diseases there is clinical response and patient symptom relief. We all know about the failed Ritux...
  2. SNT Gatchaman

    Aviation and healthcare: a comparative review with implications for patient safety, 2016, Kapur et al.

    Aviation and healthcare: a comparative review with implications for patient safety Narinder Kapur; Anam Parand; Tayana Soukup; Tom Reader; Nick Sevdalis Safety in aviation has often been compared with safety in healthcare. Following a recent article in this journal, the UK government set up an...
  3. Andy

    UK: NICE Blog: How NICE is improving patient safety, Nov 2020

    https://www.nice.org.uk/news/blog/how-nice-is-improving-patient-safety
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    Patient Safety Commissioner proposal - First Do No Harm IMMDSReview, 2020, Cumberlege et al

    The Independent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Review into three unsafe medicines/medical products aimed at women has now published its report to the UK government (8 July 2020). The report, First Do No Harm, calls for: a new Patient Safety Commissioner to "champion the patient voice"...
  5. Trish

    Scientific American: We Have No Reason to Believe 5G Is Safe, 2019, Moskowitz

    A member asked me to start a thread on this: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/we-have-no-reason-to-believe-5g-is-safe/
  6. Daisy

    BMJ blog: The language used to describe patient feedback has a detrimental influence on safety culture

    Worth a read. Considers how patient feedback is viewed by health professionals and managers and cultural problems that PWME will likely recognise. and https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2019/02/05/miles-sibley-the-language-used-to-describe-patient-feedback-has-a-detrimental-influence-on-safety-culture/
  7. Barry

    ME/CFS NICE Guideline - Safety testing of GET in PACE trial

    The issue of GET and safety has of course been much discussed, especially regarding the the PACE trial authors' claims to have demonstrated its safety, versus the fact there exists good quality anecdotal evidence to the contrary. There is however an aspect I'm not sure has been broached, and...
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    • get guidelines me/cfs nice nice guideline pace trial safety
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    • Forum: General ME/CFS news
  8. Cheshire

    Graded exercise therapy for ME/CFS is not effective and unsafe. Re-analysis of a Cochrane review (2018) Health Psychology / Vink

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

    BMJ: HPV vaccine safety: Cochrane launches urgent investigation into review after criticisms

    Not commenting on the safety or otherwise of HPV vaccine, I know nothing much about that topic. Just posting this to show that it is possible to move Cochrane to review their own reviews - in an urgent fashion no less. Time will tell the quality of the review of the original review...
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    Our comment in BJP, iCBT neither efficacious nor safe

    https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/the-british-journal-of-psychiatry/article/cognitivebehavioural-therapy-for-chronic-fatigue-syndrome-neither-efficacious-nor-safe/C8B85E1E18395A44E4535281167FD413
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