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A close look at some of the IOM provisional panel nominees

Nielk

Nielk

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I am searching for disease that were defined by experts. I thought I saw someone posting about that but, can't find it. Help?
 
justinreilly

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@Nielk, Here are a few collated by WillowJ:

Alzheimer’s:
thanks to Ember
http://forums.phoenixrising.me/index.php?threads/iom-panelists-balancing-act.27014/#post-412626
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3096735/?report=classic

Leptosporosis:
thanks to Hope123
http://forums.phoenixrising.me/inde...en-posted-3-dec-2013.26810/page-3#post-409658
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22231248

AIDS:
thanks to Hope123
http://forums.phoenixrising.me/inde...en-posted-3-dec-2013.26810/page-3#post-409658
http://cid.oxfordjournals.org/content/42/11/1639.long

MS:
thanks to Gemini
http://forums.phoenixrising.me/inde...bout-panel-selection.26420/page-4#post-404873
the "McDonald Criteria" & has been revised several times over the years:
www.msdiagnosed.org/McDonald.pdf
Revised in 2010:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ana.22366/pdf
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21387374

EDS:
thanks to WillowJ
The Beighton criteria for Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, joint hypermobility type (current version) was written by 5 EDS specialists (geneticists) and 2 disease orgs
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK1279/

The other criteria, the Brighton criteria (not a typo, the two definitions are called Beighton and Brighton), was written by three rheumatologists (current version). These are cited by the US Army Health Clinic in Germany
http://www.jaoa.org/content/106/9/531.full

Fibromyalgia:
thanks to WillowJ
"The two criteria for fibromyalgia were written by 1) three doctors and 2) ten doctors and the professional college (American College of Rheumatology)."
 
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