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"Stanford scientist’s mission to help solve the mystery of CFS brings hope to patients"

mango

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Scope Blog: Stanford scientist’s mission to help solve the mystery of CFS brings hope to patients
by Tracie White
In writing my story, “The puzzle solver,” on Stanford scientist Ron Davis, PhD, and his race to solve the biochemical puzzle of chronic fatigue syndrome — the disease afflicting his son, Whitney Dafoe — I was unable to interview Dafoe.

Dafoe, 32, has been bed-bound for three years, and as the article in Stanford Medicine magazine explains, he is now too weakened by his illness to speak, write, or even listen to music [...]

http://scopeblog.stanford.edu/2016/...brings-hope-to-patients/#sthash.qT8XfRnb.dpuf