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When cases (per wastewater locally) are low, then I will linger in indoor spaces but with a mask. At the moment cases where I live (per wastewater calculation) are deemed moderate. I won't stay inside for more than a few minutes when there are people about. Of course, I have on an N95. If a...

What a confusion hodge-podge. Unhelpful.

Wow, the only problems with the study are a huge number of confounding variables, genetics, and inadequate subject population.

From: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/recommendations/immuno.html "People Who May Get an Additional Updated COVID-19 Vaccine People aged 6 months and older who are moderately or severely immunocompromised may get additional updated COVID-19 vaccine doses 2 or more months...

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/10/upshot/covid-pandemic-wave.html?unlocked_article_code=1.M00.EASq.lK3EiU2VLQkn&smid=url-share Detail about why Eric Topol is dismayed by the lack of testing. The key is case counts, You can't infer from wastewater sampling the case counts and therefore you...

I am not a huge fan of Topol's writings, but I admire his expertise. My son just contracted covid, for the first time. Very few people mask in indoor public spaces, despite news reporting of a surge of covid cases, influenza here in the US. I think Topol is indirectly addressing the dearth of...

@josepdelafuente From the Patient-Led Research Collaborative website referenced above, about Jarred Younger's project funding: "September 23, 2023 Note: originally the Patient-Led Research Fund had awarded funds to Dr. Jarred Younger at University of Alabama at Birmingham to conduct a clinical...

https://practicalneurology.com/articles/2020-jan/ms-minute-ibudilast

This FATIGUEWALK study is an offshoot (some of same authors) of the FIBROWALK study published 2022: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0005796722001590?via=ihub

by Ong, et al in Innov Aging. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10714916/pdf/igad070.pdf Five weeks of positive affect training vs a control group of reporting emotions. 43 in each group, mostly female, older than 50, 80% white. Internet training modules: identifying personal...

Ed Yong, New York Times Opinion piece 12/11/2023 "Reporting on Long Covid Taught Me to Be a Better Journalist" (temporary free-access) https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/11/opinion/long-covid-reporting-lessons.html?unlocked_article_code=1.FE0.Oheh.Ofc6stWGiHko&smid=url-share

In order to cut costs, will the NHS consider chest pain to first be treated by emergency CBT or should I post this in the dumb question category.

https://www.kidney.org/atoz/content/race-and-egfr-what-controversy Blacks in the US make up 35% of dialysis patients (13% of general US population) but trail far behind in kidney transplantation rates (referral problem due to racial prejudice in large part, in my experience as a dialysis RN...

In the US, there is no patient database because our health care system is fragmented, no single payer, except for the Veteran's Affairs database, and perhaps the large health insurer Kaiser Permanente, or Medicare (people age 65 and older). So that is a major problem for doing large population...

Yeah, but "patient report of memory problems" was better with LDN. Not objective enough.

Lee, Chen (2023) Myalgia! Where does it come from? Acta Neurol Taiwan (IF: -1) 32(4) 230-239 Abstract Myalgia (also called muscle pain or muscle ache) is a symptom associated with many diseases, including fibromyalgia, neurodegenerative diseases, degenerative spine diseases, etc. Myalgia is a...

Not exactly an "Aha!" medical minute.

Should have titled the research, Depressed FM patients' rumination vs distraction in recovery after physical exercise.

In scanning the full article, note that the recruitment of these patients were done by a rheumatogist AND a psychiatrist, so that depression and anxiety and/or other mental illnesses were present at a clinically significant level. This does not represent FM patients as a whole. Rumination is a...

Nonsense. I have days when any movement around the house involves pain sensations all day. The pain sensing nerves are so abnormally sensitized that doing one ankle circle or one other range of motion joint exercise can feel in the next day (and persist for 2 days) like a injury to soft tissue...