Saturday, January 15, 2011

Sufferer's plea for more research rebuffed by Health Secretary

[Comment:  I think hypocortisolaemia (adrenal insufficiency) is quite common in these disorders.]

Sufferer's plea for more research rebuffed by Health Secretary
http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/8791267.Sufferer___s_plea_for_more_research_rebuffed_by_Health_Secretary/

"A SERIOUSLY ill York woman has asked the Government to fund more research in to conditions which cause chronic fatigue.

Christine Wrightson, 64, had been confined to bed in her Huntington home after being struck down by a mystery illness in 2006. After NHS investigations failed to provide a diagnosis, Mrs Wrightson went private and was found to be suffering from pituitary disease and hypocortisolaemia, conditions similar to ME."

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