A vexing enigma: new insights confront chronic fatigue syndrome.(Disease/Disorder overview) From: Science News | Date: July 1, 2006| Author: Harder, Ben | COPYRIGHT 2006 Science Service, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Laurel Wright was 52 years old when her well-being plummeted. That May, she began to feel inexplicably tired, day after day. "By September," she says, "I crashed and burned." She developed debilitating exhaustion, severe insomnia, muscle aches, and what she calls "brain fog." Whenever she overexerted herself, aches and pains would spread throughout her body, sending her to the bed or the couch for several days at a stretch. Wright tried ducking out from her job during the day to go...