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The Stat article is a hideous confection of appeal to authority (Topol and his Institute) multiple unreferenced assertions, unreferenced statistics, and at least one glaring fallacy, that of "illness axiomatically = treatment". The article tells us nothing about the quality of the research that...

Merged thread Wealthiest quintile 3 times more likely to report Long Covid than the poorest quintile - unless PASC is a disease of plenty this must represent a huge degree of reporting bias. The effect is uniform throughout, from poorest to wealthiest. Extract from Table 1.

Icing on the cake - her friends are having to fundraise to ensure the critically injured victim can have continued decent medical care. Without cash or insurance cover hospitals will do the minimum to get the patient to discharge, not provide the best available treatment.

The IOC consensus statement: beyond the Female Athlete Triad—Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport (RED-S) Abstract Protecting the health of the athlete is a goal of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). The IOC convened an expert panel to update the 2005 IOC Consensus Statement on the...

Jonathon Kerr no longer with us https://www.s4me.info/threads/dr-jonathan-kerr.7982/page-3#post-470931 Re: Kerr's comment on the MRC - timing of his applications was unfortunate - as I've commented in another thread: "The history of MRC support for PACE & FINE was very particular, it coincide...

Check of the Medical Register: https://www.gmc-uk.org/doctors?text=Jonathan%20Kerr&isSpecialist=true = not good news.

I think the overlap analysis is interesting, if this is statistically sound (I'm not confident in my capacity to assess) then it shows that the pulmonary elements of PASC are easily distinguishable from the plethora of other symptoms, which other studies seemed to have difficulty discriminating...

Long COVID in Children and Young People To determine the symptoms of Long COVID-19, define Long COVID-19 and determine how many young people suffer from Long COVID-19. Please note, CLoCK is a research project that is entirely separate from the provision of clinical services. CLoCk Team...

OECD countries by Medical Graduate/year https://data.oecd.org/healthres/medical-graduates.htm#indicator-chart - makes interesting comparison to the alternate data (list on left side) - some of the countries with the highest health spending have below average graduate output - meaning an...

AFAIK the UK has since 1948 set the annual allocation of medical school places at below the total estimated need for the NHS - it's been an inbuilt part of the system. Initially it may have been well intended, allowing 'Commonwealth' trained medics the opportunity to work in the 'advanced...

ITV The Philippines' 'critical brain drain' as nurses leave their home country for jobs abroad Thousands of nurses from the Phillippines move to the UK to work for the NHS, but it's leaving their health service struggling, ITV News Asia Correspondent reports. The Philippines is the biggest...

Chestnet website https://journal.chestnet.org/ currently reporting "We're currently performing maintenance. Please return soon." 10.28 BST Friday.

I echo InitialConditions' reply, there is no way to meaningfully answer the question. Global health research funding is $100 billions, most of that is pharmaceuticals but even at the level of Institutional grant making the numbers are still vast, AND even then applications for funding greatly...

From the title I thought it was about invoking the first Law of thermodynamics.

A new variant of Covid-19 named “Arcturus” is behind a fresh surge of infections in India. "The Omicron sub-variant XBB.1.16 strain is on the verge of devastating the country where cases have soared 13-fold in the last month." - interesting use of 'devastation' as it apparently means slightly...

Projection August 2022 using a March 2021 study with cohort of 1047 post covid 50% over 50, pre illness health status not recorded.

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S4ME thread: https://www.s4me.info/threads/selective-visuoconstructional-impairment-following-mild-covid-19-with-inflammatory-and-neuroimaging-correlation-findings-2022-de-paula-et-al.28390/

The Long Covid - ME/CFS overlap relies on just a single systemic review from 2021. Discussion: https://www.s4me.info/threads/long-covid-and-me-cfs%E2%80%94a-systemic-review-and-comparison-of-clinical-presentation-and-symptomatology-2021-wong-and-weizer.20310/ Long COVID and ME/CFS—A Systemic...