Bath doctor leads child fatigue research
An expert from Bath has won 730,000 to investigate chronic fatigue syndrome in children.
The ground-breaking research will be carried out by Dr Esther Crawley, who works at the city's Mineral Water Hospital.
She will be looking to get a better understanding of the cause, treatment and prevention of chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) and ME in children using a prestigious fellowship and funding.
The money is from the National Institute of Heath Research, which has awarded a clinician scientist fellowship to Dr Crawley, consultant paediatrician at the hospital - whose formal name is the Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases.Her study will be the first to look at CFS/ME in children in such detail.
