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Health and Human Services (HHS) has rejected the Canadian Consensus Criteria. Instead, HHS has characterized ME/CFS as unexplained fatigue and lumped it together with conditions like depression and deconditioning. This has stalled research and drug development and left too many doctors not even believing that patients are really sick. But no more! On September 23, thirty-five of the leading ME/CFS experts sent a letter to Secretary Sebelius announcing that they had reached consensus on the use of the Canadian Consensus Criteria as the sole definition for ME/CFS and urging HHS to abandon its plans to contract the Institute of Medicine to develop its own criteria for ME/CFS. This is a remarkable and unprecedented letter. Please join us in applauding and supporting these experts for showing exactly the kind of leadership and courage that is needed to change the future for ME/CFS patients.
Posted on: Fri, 04 Oct 2013 10:22:36 +0000

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