University of Glasgow has just filed a patent containing a diagnostic and treatment for CFS!
Those of you who are masochists or medical professionals can slog through the whole thing here:
I don't like shrimp or champagne much so if you don't mind I'll have a Hershey bar with almonds and a cup of cappuccino in your honor.
Lucille
Oh, Karen. This is great news indeed. MS patients also complain of extreme fatigue. I'm sure there's a relationship somewhere.
I'm eating your shrimp but will skip the champagne. Thank you.
I'll echo Brenda's sentiments: How long before the U.S. starts taking this seriously and treating their patients sanely?
Dianne
Karen C - California ,in rec.crafts.textiles.needleworkwrote: and entertained us with
I can't say I have read it through, but if you say it is good news, lets hope it's over here pronto.
Recent viral research by NCF showed that the same virus is implicated in both CFS and MS. In the early days, some CFS patients were diagnosed with "atypical MS" since something like 90% of symptoms overlap.
When the current crowd of psychologizers at CDC/NIH is forced out. Unfortunately, 20 years ago, one of their lead researchers decreed it to be "depressed menopausal women", and although the 30% undeniably male patients forced him to eat his last two words, he continued to push his agenda of psychobabble until he retired, whereupon a successor was chosen who also has a history of misogynism. Anything to avoid admitting that this is contagious, serious and disabling.
On a name change petition, Hillary J. Johnson, author of Osler's Web, commented that the name "Chronic Fatigue Syndrome" was selected "by a small group of politically motivated and/or poorly informed scientists and doctors who were vastly more concerned about costs to insurance companies and the Social Security Administration than about public health. Their deliberate intention ?? based on the correspondence they exchanged over a period of months ?? was to obfuscate the nature of the disease by placing it in the realm of the psychiatric rather than the organic. The harm they have caused is surely one of the great tragedies of medicine. Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia, and Other Invisible Illnesses, Katrina Berne, Ph.D., page 10
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