Disagreements still exist over the chronic fatigue syndrome

Editor–Although the ME Association welcomes the royal colleges' unequivocal conclusion that the chronic fatigue syndrome is a genuine and disabling condition,1 we also agree that their report will “engender disagreement on both sides of the Atlantic.”2 We have no problem in accepting that the alternative name for the condition–myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME)–is pathologically incorrect, and this is a matter that we now intend to address. However, labels are important to patients as well as doctors, and support groups throughout the world …