NEARLY 20 YEARS AFTER BEING namedasaclinicalentity, chronic fatiguesyndrome (CFS)
remains a puzzling disease. Bolstered by recent findingsprovidingcluestofactorsthatplay …

Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) is a disabling ill-ness that has probably afflicted humankind
for centuries, but it first became prominent as a recognizable disorder in 1988, 1 when a …

SYSTEMATIC REVIEWS HAVE 2 AIMS. THE FIRST IS TO PRO-duce an unbiased, detailed,
and comprehensive syn-thesis of a particular subject. The second is to permit the …

When does an illnessbecome a disease? When the underlying biological abnormalities that
cause the symptoms and signs of the illness are clarified. The illness now called myalgic …

AS THE ABILITY TO TREAT THE PHYSICAL MANIFESTA-tions of many illnesses improves,
physicians grapple more seriously with their emotional, social, and symptomatic dimensions …

Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), whatever it may be, is nothing new, and neither is the
observation that it provokes disputes between patient and doctor, and between doctors …

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) as a supplement to The American Journal of Medicine
affords the opportunity to communicate some important steps forward in the understanding …

SUMMARY Context: Patients with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and their physicians are often
in conflict about the etiology and treatment of CFS. Objectives: 1. Survey the literature …

▪ A workshop was held 18 to 19 March 1991 at the National Institutes of Health to address
critical issues in research concerning the chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). Case definition …

Abstract The Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is a chronic debilitating illness associated with
severe fatigue as well as a variety of other complaints. CFS is often considered to be …