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We are grateful for the opportunity to provide input to the Trans-National Institutes of Health (NIH) ME/CFS Working Group as they develop strategies to guide NIH’s research efforts and priority setting for research on ME/CFS. Our mission at the Stanford Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Research Center is to discover causes, a molecular diagnosis, and treatment options...
Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME)/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) is a chronic illness with a long and complex history. Estimates of its frequency range from 0.1% to 2% of the population in the United States1. Severity of the illness can range from trivial, where it is impossible to make the diagnosis to fatal, but this latter is, fortunately,...
By Linda Tannenbaum A February Institute of Medicine report said up to 91 percent of people with chronic fatigue syndrome have not been diagnosed. These people are not receiving appropriate treatments or healthcare advice. If you feel tired often, how would you know if you have this disease? ME/CFS, myalgic encephalomyelitis, also known as “chronic fatigue syndrome”...