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ABC News: “Study sheds light on chronic fatigue syndrome”

A new study by a team of researchers from Stanford University sheds light on chronic fatigue syndrome, which is estimated to affect over 836,000 Americans and has no known cure or cause, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Chronic fatigue syndrome (sometimes referred to in medical literature as myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome, or ME/CFS) is a debilitating illness characterized by overwhelming fatigue that is not improved by rest, according to the CDC. Continue Reading

The Guardian: “Is chronic fatigue syndrome finally being taken seriously?”

José Montoya was a trainee doctor when his supervisor told him that if he continued specialising in treating chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), he would end up homeless. “About 15 years ago, I started working with 10 patients who’d had their lives devastated by this illness,” says Montoya, now a professor at Stanford University and one of the world’s leading experts on the disease. Continue Reading 

Nature: “A reboot for chronic fatigue syndrome research”

Name a remedy, and chances are that Elizabeth Allen has tried it: acupuncture, antibiotics, antivirals, Chinese herbs, cognitive behavioural therapy and at least two dozen more. She hates dabbling in so many treatments, but does so because she longs for the healthy days of her past. The 34-year-old lawyer was a competitive swimmer at an Ivy-league university when she first fell ill with chronic fatigue syndrome, 14 years ago. Continue Reading

Palo Alto Weekly: “Unraveling the mystery of chronic fatigue syndrome”

Researchers are making headway toward finding evidence of chronic fatigue syndrome and how it may change the brain. Ronald W. Davis, a Stanford University genetics researcher who was instrumental in the Human Genome Project, is heading up a new research center at Stanford University, which is rapidly becoming a nexus for chronic fatigue research. Continue Reading

Stanford Medicine: “Immune System Disruption the Search for Answers”

Erin keeps a photo of herself playing soccer in the living room of her tidy cottage near San Francisco Bay. It captures her image frozen in time and space, hurtling like a comet between two opponents, her white-blond ponytail fanned out like flames. Continue Reading 

Stanford Medicine: “Researchers identify biomarkers associated with chronic fatigue syndrome severity”

Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have linked chronic fatigue syndrome to variations in 17 immune-system signaling proteins, or cytokines, whose concentrations in the blood correlate with the disease’s severity. Continue Reading