David Tuller reports in the New York Times on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Sufferers have long struggled to convince doctors, employers and friends that their debilitating symptoms are not imaginary.
But the syndrome is now finally gaining some official respect. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which in 1999 acknowledged that it had diverted millions of dollars allocated by Congress for chronic fatigue syndrome research to other programs, has released studies that linked the condition to genetic mutations and abnormalities in gene expression involved in key physiological processes.
Source: New York Times, Davis Tuller May 31 2008
