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The story is now out, and it features a picture of Ron Davis on CNN's front page, with a link to the story: He pioneered technology that fueled the Human Genome Project. Now his greatest challenge is curing his own son. ETA: I've started a public thread about the story here.

The replication crisis is killing psychologists’ theory of how the body influences the mind An excellent article (IMO) that examines some very important implications of the replication crisis in psychology in areas relating to the mind-body connection. Specifically, the "embodied cognition"...

This story is now the first story on CNN's home page in the "Top Stories" column, complete with picture. [Edit: See @rvallee's post below for the captured front page.] The caption is "Your immune system may be why you're tired all the time", but the main article is entitled "Chronic fatigue...

From the New York Times: Federal Judge in Texas Strikes Down Obama’s Affordable Care Act The judge ruled on the grounds that the mandate requiring people to buy health insurance was unconstitutional and the law could not stand without it. The case will almost certainly make its way to the...

This article was updated a couple of hours ago, and now contains a fair amount of new material. It's now entitled How Netflix’s ‘Afflicted’ Failed the Chronic Illness Community, with the subtitle "According to participants in the docuseries, producers promised compassion but delivered...

Dr. Paul Cheney mentioned seeing this effect among a number of his patients many years ago. I have also been on a stable dose of clonazepam for decades, and I often experience this effect as well. Specifically, orthostatic intolerance makes it difficult for me to sit up for anything except...

At one point, I tried adding adenosyl cobalamin to my methyl B12 regimen, and I found the result to be too stimulating. This was most likely related to the total B12 dose I was taking, but with your sensitivities, staying away from unnecessary ingredients seems like a good idea to me. The...

I am blissfully unaware of his existence, so I am addressing your concerns without regard to who he is. Getting enough magnesium in a well-absorbed form that is easily tolerated can be quite a challenge. Almost all topical magnesium products are made with magnesium chloride, and it is the...

There are a lot of people who are unaware of the subtleties of the methylation cycle, and specifically how some people can be overly sensitive to methyl. Many people have a B12 deficiency but can't take methyl B12, like you. The problem, as you mentioned, is that you cannot tolerate excess...

Sorry to hear of your current problems, MT. I would guess that what was causing the problem was the zinc supplement, as these do not sound like B12 problems, and it's hard to see how celery juice could cause this. But zinc supplementation can become toxic at levels that are not huge multiples...

Yes, oral magnesium sulfate is not a very good treatment for magnesium deficiency. Epsom salt soaking can be very effective at reducing or eliminating magnesium deficiency and its associated symptoms. Magnesium sulfate injections tend to be the most effective treatment for magnesium...

What @Alvin has been saying is correct. As an American who has studied economics, I will try to elaborate some more. The Federal Reserve can indeed print money, but as @Alvin pointed out, it is essentially an independent agency. It creates money only as part of implementing monetary policy -...

My feelings exactly. Doing this type of learning procedure on unconscious women without their consent is essentially treating them like test animals. It shows a complete lack of respect for their basic humanity. Dr. Jay Goldstein observed that gynecologists (and anesthesiologists) tend to...

Well, that's the last time I ever leave my house. :rolleyes:

I found the final paragraph of the article to be a good summary of the issues involved.

From HuffPost: The GOP Wants To Gut The Americans With Disabilities Act And from NBC News: The GOP's H.R. 620 will gut the Americans With Disabilities Act, pushing disability rights back to 1989 From the NBC News article:

A story like this boggles the mind. Fourteen doctors had missed an obvious physical abnormality, and passed it off as a psychological problem. The more stories like this I see, the more I think that there must be many, many doctors out there who have forgotten most or all of the little...

A completely different article on the same topic as this thread is now up on HuffPost under the title Painful Sex Is Often The First Sign Of A Serious Condition For Women. But Most Doctors Dismiss It. It describes the situation in the US, which is pretty much the same in this case.

Yes; I described an MRI I had five years ago in this post on the other place. The radiologist had concluded that my scan was completely normal, but between looking at his notes and examining the scan itself, I saw three abnormalities characteristic of ME/CFS: Empty sella syndrome ("The sella...

The standard dose is 150 mg twice a day. You might want to try that for a while before giving up on this drug, since you had such good results initially.