NHS is accused of 'endorsing quackery' after posting job ad for a Japanese energy healer who will treat cancer patients alongside chemo...
This led to this article in a national newspaper in Ireland: https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-40940651.html
it would be interesting to see the recruitment material to see what biasing effect if any it might have had on recruitment.
I’m grateful to anyone who puts themselves forward for a media interview. But in the video clip, the wording seemed to give the impression the...
The regular attenders’ thing would have excluded me for many years. But when my GP retired and another GP practice got her patients, the new...
The peer review history is here: https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-022-13929-9/peer-review Sometimes this can be...
NIH tweet for what it is worth:
Long covid symptoms will be permanent for for many, says study "Loss of smell and taste adversely affects quality of life by depriving those...
The ICC weren’t created/published when it was being done.
Not sure of timeline but the efficacy and widespread access to Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV seems like a breakthrough.
I got the impression the treatment of Hepatitis C is a big breakthrough. Don’t have any in-depth knowledge though.
It led to studies like this: Prevalence of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) in three regions of England: a repeated...
If I recall correctly, the IACFS/ME have to subsidise it. Previously there was the Journal of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. It wasn’t PubMed-listed....
Here's a Twitter thread on this: ETA: Actually this is for his new paper. I might leave as they seem related.
For what it is worth, the lead author has posted around 10 tweet replies like this in reply to ME/CFS messages today: He also wrote this:
By the way, if one puts a username at the very start of a tweet, it won’t tend to show up in other people’s Twitter feeds (unless retweeted). It...
I should probably have included that I think this lab in Germany is the primary lab people in Ireland use when unhappy with conventional testing...
I dislike people against animal research getting a veto on it. Vegetarians for example don't consume dead animals. However they don't get a veto...
Perhaps the question needs to be clarified because I presume what is being asked is whether you believe there are no circumstances under which...
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