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Article: 2004 report on chronic fatigue languishes at HHS.
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- Internal Medicine News
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- July 15, 2006
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WASHINGTON -- All the hoopla over findings about a genetic basis for chronic fatigue syndrome has overshadowed the fact the recommendations made in 2004 by the Department of Health and Human Services' Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Advisory Committee have never been sent to the secretary of the Department Health and Human Services despite stipulation to do so in the charter of the 4-year-old committee.
At the committee's meeting, Dr. William C. Reeves, chief of the Viral Exanthems and Herpesvirus Branch of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and head of its chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) public health research program, said that agencies like the CDC ...