A reboot for chronic fatigue syndrome research

[jesse_the_k]

Excellent NATURE article with pocket history of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome: how it's been ignored, the crap we patients have put up with, and how it may now be getting the right attention paid. With many references for further research.

Good first read for family, friends and medicos who need schooling.

Nature 3 January 2018
A reboot for chronic fatigue syndrome research

Research into this debilitating disease has a rocky past. Now scientists may finally be finding their footing.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-017-08965-0

Comments

[wendelah1]

Well, that's pretty exciting. About damn time, too.

[j00j]

Thanks for sharing this! I have another friend who hasn't been able to leave bed in a couple years, and had to move back with her parents finally. I'm really bummed rituximab doesn't seem to have worked out, but at least we are getting into more serious science.

[sonia]

Thanks for this link! I already passed it along to a client. Glad to hear the illness is finally being taken seriously by the scientific community!

I'm wondering if it will turn out to be something like this, where an antibiotic was causing a mysterious syndrome. When a Medical “Cure” Makes Things Much, Much Worse by Jeanne Lenzer.