Countrygirl
Senior Member
- Messages
- 5,486
- Location
- UK
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/837577_2?src=stfbHappy
To read the whole article, you can log in for free.
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Wrong Name, Real Illness
For clinicians, the first step is to recognize that the condition is real.
To read the whole article, you can log in for free.
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Wrong Name, Real Illness
For clinicians, the first step is to recognize that the condition is real.
"People do think it's a spectrum of disease. We've settled on that it's an immune-related disorder, and there is potentially a subset that's autoimmune, a subset that's virally triggered, a chronic viral infection, and perhaps other triggers or stressors...People are still kicking around whether it's autoimmune or chronic low-grade infection," Open Medicine Institute founder and director Andreas M. Kogelnik, MD, toldMedscape Medical News.
"I think the most important thing for physicians to know is that while we don't have a diagnostic test or a proven treatment, there is now abundant evidence that in these patients there is an underlying biological process.
The condition is tragically real for Ronald W. Davis, PhD, professor of biochemistry and genetics at Stanford University and director of the Stanford Genome Technology Center, whose work with genetic linkage mapping enabled the Human Genome Project. His 31-year-old son developed ME/CFS 3 years ago and is now completely bedridden and unable to speak.
In his new position as ME/CFS scientific advisory board director of the Open Medicine Institute, Dr Davis has recruited Nobel laureates James D. Watson, PhD, and Mario R. Capecchi, PhD, and other esteemed scientists as advisors to create what he envisions as a collaborative ME/CFS research effort akin to the Human Genome Project.
Last edited: