So, (some of) the Royal Colleges have turned their attention to commissioning, which we always knew would be the next battle to fight. Which...
The minutes of the Round Table are also there, and I have a concern as to NICE's take on CBT (emphasis mine): "In the main, what is being...
And the SMC weighs in: https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reaction-to-updated-nice-guideline-on-diagnosis-and-management-of-me-cfs/...
The uncritical acceptance by BACME and others of "HPA axis" dysregulation bothers me. This is based on small-scale studies with minor findings...
Very interesting that the vice-chair of the NICE committee, Baroness Finlay, spoke up; her question was most instructive. Firstly, the phrase...
It's from Alvarez' 1935 paper "What is wrong with the patient who feels tired, weak and toxic?". I don't think anyone has posted the full,...
Abstract Objectives: This study aimed to explore the experience of cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) aimed at better management of chronic...
a now-discredited study called the PACE trial. It warms my heart to see that in the pages of a major publication.
This is an utterly egregious misrepresentation. The evidence was never supportive; a cogent assessment of that evidence showed that its quality...
Disappointing, of course, but I'm not worried overmuch about this; the guidance is surely done & will probably be sent to stakeholders for error...
Patterson also seems to have been involved in a group called FLCCC, which produced this "treatment protocol" - he is listed as one of the...
The stakeholder responses should be very interesting. In order to respond to the draft, the BPSers will have to seriously engage with the...
There's a copy of an older version on archive.org. Comparing the two, the following entries have been deleted: and these have been added:
This just came up in my news feed: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-9775925/Can-long-Covid-cured-monthly-dose-vaccine.html Dr David...
The Linbury Trust is one of the trusts established by Lord Sainsbury, and they've had an interest in funding ME research for a very long time. As...
The suggestion of a unified comms & PR strategy seems a very sound one to me. The ME patient community is constantly being blindsided, while the...
As it happens, I was just reading another story from another of the many victims of this reprehensible process. The mendacity and malevolence of...
From my brief skim, the study seems to be to have been well-conducted, although there is no clinical detail; nothing as to how the patients were...
Definitely - and not just Libby. My local council's library service also offers access - remotely, just with a library number - to Borrowbox...
Abstract Aims: Post-exertional malaise (PEM) is poorly understood in Gulf War Illness (GWI). Exercise challenges have emerged as stimuli to...
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