A minor historical point, but if they say it was first used in Fukuda, then they're wrong. This is from Komaroff's contribution to the...
A little off-topic, but given that there is topical interest in Newton's opinions re. ME, here are two pages from "Postural Tachycardia Syndrome:...
Attached. Not quite as bad as, say, HADS, but some questions are problematic in the context of ME, particularly those that involve the "I am less...
Here you go, @Trish. I don't feel at all well enough today to offer a thorough critique, but a few random thoughts: This seems more like an...
bioRxiv preprint: link, PDF Summary SARS-CoV-2 has infected over 160 million and caused more than 3 million deaths to date. Most individuals...
Yes, important to realise that this is not just a random video, but is part of Health Education England's e-learning for NHS clinicians. I asked...
This programme appears to have been put together back in 2020 and attracted some news coverage at the time (link, link, link). Service evaluation...
There is an interesting paper in the BMJ (link, main PDF) entitled "Risk of clinical sequelae after the acute phase of SARS-CoV-2 infection:...
The chapter in question is from "Postural Tachycardia Syndrome: A Concise and Practical Guide to Management and Associated Conditions" (link)....
The researchers say that they use a child-centered questionnaire, RCADS in addition to HADS; it appears that this suffers from the same well-known...
https://www.acpjournals.org/do/10.5555/comment1557/abs/ https://www.acpjournals.org/do/10.5555/comment1538/abs/...
Wasn't hopeful that this guidance would change - especially as I'd heard that NHS pain-management clinics had adopted the new approach - but...
I've been listening to the video of the Michael Sharpe Swiss Re presentation on Long COVID, and there's a highly disconcerting exchange at the end...
Haven't read this one thoroughly yet, but attached a copy. Fascinating that the sEMG results in the CFS cohort were the opposite to those expected...
This does not seem to augur well for us, but I may yet be surprised. The draft guideline struck me very much as a closely fought compromise...
The Journal of a Disappointed Man wasn't Barbellion's only published diary: his diary of his final year of life (1918-1919) was published...
Now at 10 days post AZ vaccine. My parents had been vaccinated at our GP surgery & said it was well-organised & the rooms used were close to the...
The link is broken in the handbook, but it's section 6.3.2.
https://gdt.gradepro.org/app/handbook/handbook.html#h.33qgws879zw https://gdt.gradepro.org/app/handbook/handbook.html#h.qmsmbyw3yxsl
I suspect those inclined to the current approach will diagnose more pwME with fibromyalgia; the new NICE chronic pain draft gives them carte...
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