<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/0177e046-4c54-4037-bc67-e4b8ff92d6f6/16B7B3EE-3F3C-4802-8849-040895A9CE5E/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.smartplanet.com/technology/blog/rethinking-healthcare/the-imaginary-disease-isnt/493/" href="http://www.smartplanet.com/technology/blog/rethinking-healthcare/the-imaginary-disease-isnt/493/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.smartplanet.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.smartplanet.com/technology/blog/rethinking-healthcare/the-imaginary-disease-isnt/493/"><H1>The imaginary disease isn’t</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.smartplanet.com/technology/blog/rethinking-healthcare/the-imaginary-disease-isnt/493/"><P><A href="http://i.bnet.com/blogs/chornic-fatique.jpg"><IMG width="244" height="183" alt="" src="http://i.bnet.com/blogs/chornic-fatique.jpg" title="chornic-fatique" class="alignright size-full wp-image-494" /></A><A href="https://www.google.com/health/ref/Chronic+fatigue+syndrome">Chronic Fatigue Syndrome</A> (CFS), the “yuppie flu” that 1 million people suffer from, which their bosses and some family members insist is<A href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/11/03/health/webmd/main2152869.shtml"> imaginary</A>, is probably <A href="http://www.nih.gov/news/health/oct2009/nci-08.htm">a viral infection</A>.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.smartplanet.com/technology/blog/rethinking-healthcare/the-imaginary-disease-isnt/493/"><P>The virus is called XMRV, it has been found in many CFS patients, and it may also be in the bodies of men who suffer from a virulent form of prostate cancer.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.smartplanet.com/technology/blog/rethinking-healthcare/the-imaginary-disease-isnt/493/"><P>Scientists at the <A href="http://www.wpinstitute.org/">Whittemore Peterson Institute</A> (WPI) in Reno, Nevada got lucky and identified the retrovirus  in the blood of two-thirds of CFS patients they tested, against just 3.7% of people without the syndrome. A test for XMRV antibodies is now being developed that can provide sufferers with a diagnosis.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.smartplanet.com/technology/blog/rethinking-healthcare/the-imaginary-disease-isnt/493/"><P>The <A href="http://www.webmd.com/chronic-fatigue-syndrome/news/20091008/retrovirus-linked-to-chronic-fatigue-syndrome">most frightening aspect </A>of the new discovery is that the virus may exist in 4% of all people, including millions who show no symptoms but who may not be at greater risk for cancer and other diseases.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/16B7B3EE-3F3C-4802-8849-040895A9CE5E/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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