For successful management patients need to accept and accommodate their disability, focusing on what they can still do instead of lamenting what...
Actually, such considerations involving emotional and spiritual elements in healing have been around for many years. But they have been treated as...
Yeah, I am not convinced either. Of course it is possible, and we should keep an open mind about it, but nothing more at this stage.
It will need more than that. There are some who have behaved so atrociously and disreputably, and are clearly hell bent on continuing to do so,...
Second, make sure you have a very strict and agreed-upon definition of what long COVID constitutes: I am far more concerned about overall...
...inability to form adequate mucosal layers throughout the body... Might be something to this, given frequent reports of dry eyes and mouth, etc.
Second sentence of the abstract: Several typical symptoms of long COVID, such as fatigue, depressive symptoms and cognitive impairment, are also...
Thank you, @dave30th & Ed Young. Good to hear Ed covering the biases introduced by the career selection pressures in medicine.
While the phenomenon is likely quite widespread, I think there is a very good chance that when the underlying mechanisms are finally identified...
which appears exaggerated by blood type (more pronounced with blood-type O) Interesting.
Not criticising this particular paper or its authors, but I really wish post-infection was used instead of post-viral.
The "motivated' bit is a red flag too. I have no doubt they are dedicated and motivated. Just not to serving the interests of patients.
What @Trish said. For me PEM is the increase in overall symptom expression/intensity, highly disproportionate to the preceding effort (i.e....
Increased risk of a FND diagnosis after [checks notes] anything and everything.
I agree that no subject should be off-limits to comedy. But how it is done is where the limits kick in.
angiogenic adaptations to hypoxia That alone could explain so much.
Worth noting that beverage alcohol contains a lot more compounds than just ethanol and water (up to several hundred, IIRC), and some of those...
@Milo Earliest I can find with a quick search are Sharpe 1992, and Wessely 2004.
Another unusual symptom in common with ME. Alcohol reactions and sensitivity are not well characterized in the literature as it relates to...
Long-standing, and very hard earned. In medical science those standards are written in patients' blood.
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