This article that was originally printed under the headline ‘revitalised’ dicusses the possibility of a new way using medications that are usually used to treat conditions such as Lymphoma and Arthritis may be the way forward to understanding CFS/ME and how to treat it.
CFS first entered the medical lexicon in 1988 to describe a cluster of symptoms without an obvious cause that doctors were seeing in the Lake Tahoe area of Nevada. The principal symptom was debilitating tiredness, but people also complained of sore throats, headaches, muscle pain and various other manifestations of general malaise.
via Chronic fatigue breakthrough offers hope for millions – health – 02 July 2015 – New Scientist.
(Magazine issue 3028 published 4 July 2015)
As the article suggests this is not fully proven research yet but it gives those of us with CFS/ME a little ray of hope regarding the possibility of new future treatments.
www.newscientist.com – Health Home Page
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