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It's been almost 2 years, exactly how long do people "wait for a picture" here. There's zero urgency and the efforts deployed so far are mostly pathetic. The WHO is doing the same thing as the NIH: all talk no action. They are fully paralyzed because of the conflict ending the psychologization...

Ah well, the tweet got deleted. From a mental health nurse, showing a slide of a recent Trudie Chalder talk about mental health in LC. Tagged #mentalhealth and #cbt of course. So Chalder is still going around "teaching" people about her pseudoscience. Since it's still in my bookmarks: Can't...

Better do this 28x more times just to be sure, how can we really know if something commonly used is feasible? After all, this exact study has only been done many dozens of times so far. What we really need to find out, though, is whether it is feasible for participants to drink a glass of water...

Ah, the use of a passive voice when trying to minimize responsibility in a decision. However this is problematic as the decision to retain the amended review from 2019 was... not to retain it. Then there were threats and attacks and that decision changed, although the most weaselly way possible...

Looks like the theme of the day. When you affect the money-making machine alarms start to go off. Long COVID patients and doctors detail the growing 'mass disabling event' in America https://finance.yahoo.com/news/long-covid-patients-doctors-america-172004184.html “We’ve had [pandemics]...

Can't read, paywalled. Edit: apparently this is featured above the fold, i.e. on the top half of the front page on the printed edition. It's the main story on the site right now.

But there's nothing objective to compare them to. It's like comparing "official" weights without having a gold standard, it's irrelevant if they are consistent with one another. They're not compared to anything in real life. In the end it's basically just personal preferences which is "most...

Kind of looks like APT from PACE, actually.

It turns our that using as a metric of academic success the number and reach of published papers is a terrible idea. Academia is basically half-clickbait by now because of this, publishing papers to get funding to publish more papers to get more fun...

As I feared, it looks like the combination of "more infectious but less deadly" will be used to spur yet another round of "maybe herd immunity will work this time". Basically the worst case scenario where far more people are ill but health care systems are completely unaware of it because there...

I'm lost on this. We tried everything and have no other options, we have no real threats like the AIDS movement did with the blood supply, probably the only reason things eventually moved. Bodies were piling up and people still didn't care. It's indirect threats that did it, we don't have that...

It's an irrational position to begin with, it did not arise out of evidence. So rational arguments and evidence won't matter here. Seeing the complete failure of medicine dealing with Long Covid, how even this isn't enough to get through, I think it's important that we accept this and try a...

Can't we just give all the funding that goes to this junk directly to patient groups or something? These people are completely confused about everything and just wasting everyone's time with their crap. And it's not improving with time. If they can't understand that pacing is not a treatment and...

Anyone happen to remember this one?

And yet people who work physical labor all their lives tend to do far worse health-wise as they get older because injuries and repetitive strains add up, because things are far more complicated than this and no research of this type can account for all confounding factors. And because physical...

This is especially awful considering how they keep saying that LC research should help us so it's OK to not bother doing anything more specific to us. The NIH are clearly explicitly refusing to follow the evidence, would rather not find what they will. It's so disrespectful to all of us, and...

Where Are the Workers? Millions Are Sick With ‘Long Covid.’ https://www.barrons.com/articles/labor-shortage-workers-millions-sick-long-covid-51638923422 Dr. Schluger offers some hope for those afflicted with long Covid, and thus for the labor force. It may take a year or more, but symptoms...

Given the (shocking yet unsurprising) revelations of blatant attempts to corrupt the process at NICE, I think it necessary for Cochrane to address how they will prevent this, with the assumption that no response means that it is happening and they are OK with it, given what we know of how...