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The USA, and northern California (locally) is having an uptick of covid hospitalizations and increased PCR positive tests ratio to negative ones. Wastewater analysis confirms the uptick. Advice for various at risk groups is to again mask in crowded indoor places. I would not eat at an indoor...

Reminds me of the Israeli study of flower arranging to combat FM pain (as well as a boost for their cut flower industry, no doubt). I am taking offense at this stupid research and others of FM (my primary condition). Trivializes the mostly female FM population as well as the condition itself.

Pre-habilitation is an intervention of exercise and education done before surgery or invasive medical treatment. Here, it seems to be before a walking program. At least the researchers learned from 11 subjects that "symptoms fluctuate" and that in subsequent studies they would need to offer a...

Not to forget the devastating rise in malaria deaths due to Bolsonaro's "opening up the Amazon". https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2022/04/02/world/science-health-world/brazil-indigenous-land-malaria/

I often read his opinions in our local paper and thought him slightly cavalier about covid risks. I am sorry to hear how serious this turned out for him. Not pleasant at all. And yet, he wasn't going to increase his mask use, back several months, after his unfortunate shower sequelae. Edited...

Lunch and Learn July 20th registration page: https://batemanhornecenter.org/event/lunch-learn-virtual-event-46/

This website, part of Harvard's Chan School of Public Health contains other pablum articles (see chronic pain) which are written at a grade-school level so I assume it's for the public who are interested in the "wellness." Certainly, this is not expert or specialist-written material.

The drug rozanolixizumab has been FDA approved for myasthenia gravis for improvement in symptoms. The trade name is Rystiggo. During the trial for MG, the dose was delivered sub-cutaneously. I don't know what the dose range will be for the FM trial. However, there were adverse events in the MG...

Eddie Holmes is a virology professor at the University of Sydney and the episode is outstanding.

Walking in a grove of mature trees which hosts such a range of living organisms, from white flies to deer, it makes me feel I am part of the web of life. It's spiritual nourishment, essential. Maybe the specific molecular processes in the brain that happen when one is immersed in nature will be...

Wish I could stretch my mind over the use of "laying down" instead of "lying down." I will go and lay myself on a platter, or something.

Follow-up....Results of inoculating unvaccinated but previously infected (with SARS-CoV-2) healthy volunteers: Lancet, June 09, 2023 https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanmic/article/PIIS2666-5247(23)00101-5/fulltext And Nature commentary: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01961-7...

My take on CBT is that the list of cognitive distortions might be useful to know. But they are not infallible. The concept of pain catastrophization is bizarre. Two days ago I had a new source of pain that was indeed a catastrophy (to me). I knew that it would subside in a couple of days. But...

https://sciedandmisinfo.sites.stanford.edu/sites/g/files/sbiybj25316/files/media/file/science_education_in_an_age_of_misinformation.pdf As an outsider (a non-scientist) I found this report topical in the age of science misinformation. Highlights common errors in research.

First staff member listed on Eurekahealth's website is Richard Kravitz, MD and here is a profile with his publication history: https://profiles.ucdavis.edu/richard.kravitz

Amazing to me that April's lupus was active only in her brain, and nowhere else.

The authors send greetings from the Hypothesis Nebula, a fictional realm.

Unfortunate, useless psych-locus of focus, once again, despite the importance of pain in Long Covid patients. They cite a study about the fear of pain (catastrophisation and movement avoidance) leading to pain chronification. Translation blooper: (The post-covid group) "obtained significantly...

The numbers of participants preclude obtaining genomic data at the outset? Or aren't they interested in the bio of the bio-psych-social.

The Veteran's Administration in the US has done therapy using virtual reality for war vets with PTSD, which seems to have good benefit. (described here: https://www.chausa.org/publications/health-progress/article/july-august-2018/virtual-reality-therapy-helps-ease-veterans'-ptsd).