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Prolonged grief disorder Perhaps there's a difference between grief as an expected response that resolves over time and grief that becomes all encompassing and debilitating and which never resolves - the former is 'normal' and the latter is 'disabling'. It's perhaps one of those psychological...

Constipation Associated with Cognitive Aging and Decline Key Takeaways: Chronic constipation — one bowel movement every three days or more — could signal worsening cognition. People who were chronically constipated had worse cognition equal to three years of aging, according to the...

Prevalence of Iron Deficiency and Iron-Deficiency Anemia in US Females Aged 12-21 Years, 2003-2020 (2023) Angela C. Weyand, MD1; Alexander Chaitoff, MD, MPH2; Gary L. Freed, MD, MPH3; et al Iron deficiency and iron-deficiency anemia are common, underappreciated conditions with significant...

There's a limit to what small organisations can achieve and in the charity sector most operate at close to their maximum with little in the way of slack or in the way of security for employees, from one financial year to the next. Operating in this way can make it very difficult to change parts...

This looks significant though I can't attest the soundness of the statistics. One limitation is that the qualifying date ended August 2021 so it is possible that the peaks in Covid in late 2021 and the first half of 2022 may have produced different figures. The following three excerpts seem...

It's the same for any criminality, those who are good at it are not seen to be doing it and so get away with it while those aren't good at it are obvious and so get caught. How much fraud there is any one system is hard to tell but there are more than just monetary gains to be had from...

Fraud, if successful clearly offers the potential for a significant gain on investment - if someone receives income to cover the limitations of a disability they don't have, then they are free to make use of their lack of incapacity in ways that a disabled person isn't. Concern about fraud...

Just adding a note here regarding the future of the APPG and by extension Forward ME. The APPG as a matter of course will be dissolved at the next General Election which must happen within the next 18 months, creation of a new APPG will depend on the make up of the new Parliament. With the...

I'm not sure about extremely rare, all parts (at least in the UK) of the Welfare system are targetted for fraud, however what does seem to be rare is fraud by people who actually are disabled or chronically ill, for them the problem is underpayment or no qualification for benefit. Malingering...

Eligible participants (n = 1,996) Is this a meaningful cohort for this type of study ?

I don't know about methodology but there should be no conflation of the term 'malingering' with imputed medical causality - physical or psychological. Malingering has very specific meaning and although that could encompass exaggeration of a medical condition evidence for it should not in anyway...

What is phenomenological research? The philosophy of phenomenology resides within the naturalistic paradigm; phenomenological research asks: ‘What is this experience like?’, ‘What does this experience mean?’, and ‘How does the lived world present itself to the participant or to me as the...

The 2nd author: https://www.alexbratty.com/ How We Help We provide full-service research-based consulting to help leaders and organizations identify opportunities and operationalize strategy that translates to elevated performance. Who We Serve We work with clients who need to solve...

I wasn't clear, I didn't mean I was supporting what we now understand as camptocormia as being the condition that affected WW1 soldiers, just that there are so many confounders that it's difficult to make any certain finding of what might have been behind any given postural pathology. It's true...

There are just too many variables affecting WW1 populations. One element that can't be discounted in any postural condition in 1914-18 is dietary insufficiency so that even in young adults osteomalacia & osteoporosis become relevant as does osteoarthritis where spinal damage sets in from...

The two studies are very different in size 135,000 versus 547 and at first sight I'd say the demographics of this smaller study are somewhat different to the larger, although I really don't know enough about Catalonia's socio economic structure to match the education data of the smaller study to...

I think where public services are concerned there's strong editorial 'support for the producers' versus 'less support for the consumers' so doctors/nurses before patients, teachers/lecturers before students etc. Not surprising really as The Guardian is the major UK newspaper for public sector...

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The EU and New Zealand sign an agreement for the participation of New Zealand in European programmes like Horizon Europe The European Union and New Zealand have today signed an agreement for the participation of New Zealand in EU Programmes. The agreement creates a long-lasting legal framework...

So not "high burden" of illness on patients but "high burden of FND patients" on what ? society ? medical services ? The authors are all apparently French so maybe something is lost in translation into English but this language looks grotesquely discriminatory.