A Chronic Fatigue Blood Test Looks Increasingly Promising, But It's Still Early Days

By CARLY CASSELLA

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Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), also known as myalgic encephalomyalitis (ME), is a debilitating and misunderstood disease, more accurately defined by what it isn't than what it is.

With no known cause, few unique symptoms and little else for doctors to go by, reliable and consistent diagnosis is difficult to achieve.

A simple blood test could change all of that, and researchers at Stanford think they might have stumbled upon just the right test. In a pilot study of 40 people, the team was able to pick out each and every one of the 20 participants with CFS, based solely on how their immune cells responded to stress.

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