"New research gives insight into chronic fatigue syndrome "

[Kyla]

http://www.thecitizen.org.au/news/new-research-gives-insight-chronic-fatigue-syndrome

Australian article - profile of a PWME, and some of the work being done at Griffith university.

Here is an excerpt:

...ME affects between 100,000 to 250,000 people in Australia, leaving around 25 per cent of them bed-bound. Experts say it is a nightmare to diagnose because it has a range of about 50 different symptoms, of which 20 occur in about 70 per cent of patients.

It is a disorder that has no cure and its cause is still largely unknown. It triggers a range of conditions including long-term fatigue, and muscle and joint pain as well as damage to the cardiovascular and digestive systems...

 

[Little Bluestem]

My browser says it can't find the server at www.thecitizen.org.au. Anyone else having this problem?

 

[Snowdrop]

The link worked for me.
It's a brief article, a combination of discussing one woman's experience of ME along with Dr Staines of Griffith and their discovery which is really short on detail. All in, nothing negative. It seems there are more reasonable articles happening.