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Tracy Hampton, PhD

JAMA. 2006;296:2915.

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Nearly 20 years after being named as a clinical entity, chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) remains a puzzling disease. Bolstered by recent findings providing clues to factors that play a role in the disorder, health officials have launched an effort to alert patients and physicians to the syndrome's potential seriousness. They discussed the endeavor during a recent telebriefing.

"Sometimes people question if [CFS is] real or not real," said Julie Gerberding, MD, MPH, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in Atlanta. In addition to demonstrating that this illness is real, researchers are uncovering potential triggers and treatments.

Recent research efforts and awareness campaigns are shedding light on chronic fatigue syndrome.

A GOOD START

Some information has emerged from the Wichita CFS Surveillance Study, launched by CDC researchers in 1997. Collecting information on 90 000 individuals in Wichita, Kan, and conducting extensive clinical assessments of about 7000, the group . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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