Talk:Medically unexplained physical symptoms

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I removed:

  • NIH-funded studies are now underway to compare different treatment approaches for health anxiety and hypochondriasis: a study in the NYC area and a study in the Boston area. In these studies, patients will be given one of four treatments: supportive therapy with fluoxetine, supportive therapy with placebo, cognitive behavior therapy, or cognitive behavior therapy with fluoxetine. For more information you can also visit external links.

from the external links, since it's to do with hypochondria, and not MUPS (unless you consider all MUPS to be hypochondria,) Herd of Swine 22:14, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

Also, "now" is undefined and "underway" is speculative. :-) Guido den Broeder 10:05, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

Hi everybody, I hope I edited correctly and that it was suitable enough. Nomorebigots (talk) 05:49, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Uh-oh. You named him without showing the dictated admiration... Guido den Broeder (talk) 07:16, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Removed from the article

I removed the following from the article as being unreferenced:

"One of the most widely-known promoters of the concept that these illnesses form a distinct and unitary category is Simon Wessley. His work is highly controversial, has been the subject of a book, Denigration by Design, and has played a role in another book, Osler's Web. The Countess of Mar has officially raised questions about his work."

Please do not restore this to the article without supplying a cite that supports it. -- 80.168.225.15 (talk) 08:11, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

It was rather superfluous as Wessely's publications are already referenced to in the text. The controversial nature of his ideas is mentioned in the article Simon Wessely. Guido den Broeder (talk) 08:40, 20 May 2008 (UTC)