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Symptoms of chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) include extreme tiredness, muscle and joint pain, swollen lymph nodes, headache, and memory loss. Between 1 and 4 million people in the U.S. are thought to have chronic fatigue syndrome, one of the least understood of all the chronic illnesses. Chronic fatigue syndrome is diagnosed four times more often in women than in men.
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New Clues to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
By Maureen SalamonHealthDay Reporter TUESDAY, April 24 (HealthDay News) — The brains of patients with chronic fatigue syndrome — an often misunderstood condition marked by unexplained, incapacitating exhaustion — don’t respond to rewards in the same way as the brains of healthy people do, a new study suggests. Researchers performed functional MRI scans on the brains of [...]
Web-Based Therapy May Help Teens With Chronic Fatigue
THURSDAY, March 1 (HealthDay News) — Teens with chronic fatigue syndrome, which can cause poor concentration and memory as well as joint and muscle pain, may benefit from an Internet-based treatment known as FITNET, a new study has found. Researchers in the Netherlands studied teens with the debilitating condition and found that 63 percent reported [...]
New Report Casts More Doubt on Virus’ Link to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
By Amanda GardnerHealthDay Reporter THURSDAY, Sept. 22 (HealthDay News) — Researchers have shot another arrow through the credibility of claims that a virus likely causes chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). This time, results from nine different labs around the United States failed to differentiate patients with CFS from healthy controls solely on the basis of whether they tested [...]
Studies Refute Virus’ Link to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
By Amanda GardnerHealthDay Reporter TUESDAY, May 31 (HealthDay News) — A virus identified two years ago as a possible cause of chronic fatigue syndrome now turns out not to be the culprit, new research says. Experts say it’s a major setback in the effort to understand and treat this mysterious and debilitating disease. The authors of [...]
Study Finds No Link Between XMRV Virus, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
THURSDAY, May 12 (HealthDay News) — A new study shows that a retrovirus called XMRV is not present in the blood of people with chronic fatigue syndrome, a finding that contradicts previous research that linked XMRV to the condition. University of Utah School of Medicine researchers analyzed blood samples from chronic fatigue syndrome patients and found [...]
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