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In 2016, years before long COVID was a thing, the US National Institutes of Health, the largest single public funder of medical research in the world, launched a study into a long-neglected and puzzling condition: chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), also...

A multimillion-dollar government study has revealed several key understandings about ME/CFS.

Researchers have found differences in the brains and immune systems of people with chronic fatigue syndrome.

New evidence links changes in people's immune systems and brains to the life-changing condition known as ME/CFS.

The study indicates that brain and immune abnormalities may be linked to the chronic disease.

<p>In a detailed clinical study, researchers at the National Institutes of Health have found differences in the brains and immune systems of people with post-infectious myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (PI-ME/CFS). They also found distinct differences between men and women with the disease. The findings were published in <em>Nature Communications</em>.</p>

Research today ruled the illness, also called myalgic encephalomyelitis, is real. US scientists found, for the first time, key differences in the brains and immune systems of CFS patients.

Scientists describe small study as long overdue deep dive into biology of condition

After a decadeslong quest to find clues about her fatigue, woman writes to NIH researcher and sparks a scientific discovery about cellular energy production that that may hold promise for other people with energy-sapping conditions.

Fatigue affects the health and quality of life for many people, but there are few effective treatments for it, experts say.