IT AFFECTS around one in every 1000 people in the UK, yet it attracts only a fraction of the cash spent on other diseases such as HIV. Once derided as “yuppie flu”, the symptoms of chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), which include cramps, sleeplessness, weakness and headaches, often go unrelieved. That could be about to change as physical evidence for CFS, otherwise known as myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME), begins to stack up.
Last week, a meeting in London of CFS specialists heard from Jonathan Kerr of St George’s, University of London. Kerr and his team used two techniques to look at differences…
