That's it. Exactly what I needed. Thank you! When I read this the first time, I was surprised that fewer patients met Oxford than NICE as I had...
I think I remember reading a UK study that characterized patients by NICE, Oxford, and Fukuda and gave the prevalence of each. Does anyone...
I understand what you are saying and agree that that's what we need. But we are not alone in needing that. Other diseases are in the same boat but...
Good question. I'm at a meeting all week so cant give a full response but for a start... the impaired energy metabolism evidence - the 2 day CPET,...
Fantastic, @Webdog. I know how much this took. Thank you for being so persistent
Not disputing the reality of what you say. But what's remarkable to me is that the medical community requires proof of mechanism and a biomarker...
@Hutan - Great comments. Thank you for sharing BTW, This slide was fixed [ATTACH]
Thanks for taking this and posting about it, Hutan. I emailed CDC staff on the typo and hopefully, they can fix it quickly. Good points on...
Two more CMEs for physicians were released today by the Michigan State Medical Society (MSMS). MSMS is nationally accredited for health care...
@Dolphin - You mean of the slides? They can be downloaded from here: (https://img.medscape.com/images/907/632/907632_slides.pptx) Edited to add...
CDC and Medscape released a CME activity for physicians and other healthcare providers. This CME is a discussion moderated by Dr. Bateman, with...
CDC and Medscape also released a CME activity for physicians and other healthcare providers....
Merge thread CDC released a video about ME/CFS on Medscape today. The video features Dr. Beth Unger and is directed at doctors, encouraging them...
That's how it seems. Why is that? Seriously, not being sarcastic. Just trying to understand.
I'm not defending them on this point. This is something that many of us called out when they first released the protocol and again during the...
AHRQ originally lumped together evidence from any CFS, ME, ME/CFS, etc definition and treated them all as representing the same clinical entity....
I agree that there's no evidence of efficacy in light of the methodological issues, problems with switched outcomes, bias, use of subjective...
I think its partly the line of least resistance - what I might call their following the predominant narrative about ME/CFS being related to...
@Jonathan Edwards Yes, I do. Its a PDF Just to clarify - they did not mention "evidence-based" - I did because medicine touts the value and...
The Harvard article is another demonstration of either the schizophrenia or the unthinking nature of "evidence-based" medicine when it comes to...
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