The director of the National Institutes of Health announced a new initiative Thursday to find a cause and treatment for chronic fatigue syndrome, the mysterious, debilitating condition that disables many of its more than 1 million sufferers.
Francis S. Collins said in an interview that medicine "desperately needs some new ideas" in the fight against the syndrome and the closely-related neurological disorder myalgic encephalomyelitis. At the moment, there is no test, cause or treatment for the condition, which causes overwhelming, often disabling fatigue in more than a quarter of the people who suffer from it.
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