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The ME/CFS subtype of LC shouldn't be considered rare. We know, among those ill enough to visit a long Covid clinic, around 40% would meet the diagnostic criteria for ME/CFS.

Oh my gosh, and it isn't even a preprint.

We used to do something similar in America. People who received SSDI benefits would be referred to state OVR programs, which could try to find a suitable job for people. They probably gave up because very few people are deemed unable to work any normal job, then able to find a job with...

Hopefully by the time our grandchildren are old. I joke, but it's sad that all these questions lead to so little, often "We don't know" or "We don't have that information."

Haha it always cheers me up to see a study on the composition of farts.

This is good, this is exactly what pwLC are experiencing all around the world.

I'll tell you right now, if this is an episode of Let's Make a Deal, the NIH is standing in front of the door with the new car behind it and Prusty is probably next to the goat.

HealthRising covered this study a few weeks ago: Four Weeks at the Clinical Center: Brian Vastag on the Soon-to-be-Published NIH ME/CFS Intramural Study https://www.healthrising.org/blog/2023/05/30/vastag-nih-intramural_chronic-fatigue-syndrome-study/ The progress of this study reminds me of...

The only correlation they found was that girls with a chronically ill parent are more likely to have symptoms they classify as "functional," which are often caused by autoimmune or post-infectious disease that more women get. Thus the only thing they found is health problems run in families.

This is just inane.

They're enrolling a decent number of participants and measuring a lot of things. We have a decent chance to learn a little about PEM from this.

Tonight this aired on PBS NewsHour in the United States. PBS continues to provide informative and sensible coverage on long Covid. What the latest research tells us about long COVID’s most common symptoms Transcript John Yang: According to government data, more than 100 million people in the...

Since we've never observed this before, it's a big discovery. Now we need to see if other viruses cause it, if it happens in humans, and what effects it has.

Yes, they're finally designing connectors to prevent situations like inadvertently putting feeding tube food into your IV. We've been using both of those for so long that you think it'd be standardized by now. If medicine was as willing to change as aviation, it would have been rectified the...

The very concept of secondary gains is ridiculous. In America, the overall poverty rate is 12%, but 25% for people with disabilities. This is based on income alone; it doesn't consider that people with disabilities usually have extra expenses that may include OTC medication and supplements...

Aviation safety drastically deviates from medical safety in that when a disaster occurs, even a highly unlikely one, they make immediate, sometimes extensive, changes to prevent it. The lack of standardization in medicine is certainly risky. Aeroflot Flight 821 comes to mind. See, the attitude...

Magnesium is the 7th most common element in the Earth's crust, so I'm skeptical about soil depletion. However, diet is a big factor. For example, whole grains have a lot more Mg than refined grains. Even water supply has a small effect.

This is an unblinded study with subjective outcome measures, meaning we're unlikely to learn anything from it.

Low-effectiveness masks (cloth and surgical) provide minimal protection against getting infection and a little protection against spreading it. An N95 mask without an exhalation valve provides excellent protection both ways. An N95 mask with an exhalation valve primarily protects the user. And...

Nothing about the type of masks. Cloth and surgical masks are garbage at preventing the wearer from being infected. Wear N95s (or your country's equivalent) folks.