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13 patients in one year!! Not sure where the extra patient came from, considering only 11 agreed to participate.

Background Functional neurological disorder (FND) is a disabling condition which has poor prognosis without treatment. This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of an outpatient integrated multidisciplinary intervention for the condition. Objectives This study aimed to assess the outcomes...

Objectives Paediatric Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (pCFS) is a common condition that significantly disrupts a healthy psychosocial development. Psychiatric symptoms associated with pCFS are conceptualized as either part of its complex etiology, its consequence, or as a comorbidity. However...

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"In my early years as a doctor, I thought it was my role to be positive, sometimes overly positive, with patients and their next of kin, reassuring them of a low likelihood of my worst suspicions being confirmed. Yet I started to find myself regretting what I had said, especially when a hunch...

News in Brief posts for w/c 12th June Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sci4me/posts/pfbid0GyvmCx94WAJzaTVgwQwcnNZb2gxtFdserFgHkWGqeVTRLXeAUQCFGTtMBSyuDwV1l Mastodon: https://med-mastodon.com/@s4me/110565037543595357

Introduction: Idiopathic purpura fulminans (IPF) is a rare and severe coagulation disorder, associated with transient anti-protein S (anti-PS) antibodies in the context of post-viral infection such as varicella. Anti-protein S antibodies are frequently found in the context of varicella, in...

No he's not. He identifies it as a singular illness, i.e. CFS and ME are the same thing, therefore the illness was first called myalgic encephalomyelitis, and was then called chronic fatigue syndrome, and is now called ME/CFS.

Err, no. As we all know, the illness originally called just "myalgic encephalomyelitis".

Could endometriosis be caused by bacteria? Study offers fresh clues "Infection by a particular group of bacteria could be linked to endometriosis, a painful condition that affects up to 10% of women and girls of reproductive age. In a study of 155 women in Japan, members of the bacterial genus...

Abstract Retrograde menstruation is a widely accepted cause of endometriosis. However, not all women who experience retrograde menstruation develop endometriosis, and the mechanisms underlying these observations are not yet understood. Here, we demonstrated a pathogenic role of Fusobacterium...

Background Hydrogen gas (H2) is a common product of carbohydrate fermentation in the human gut microbiome and its accumulation can modulate fermentation. Concentrations of colonic H2 vary between individuals, raising the possibility that H2 concentration may be an important factor...