Friday, April 15, 2011

Video-Chronic fatigue syndrome:Potential causes and current research April 2011


Stanford Apr 11, 2011


Medical Minutes are short interviews with clinical doctors and researchers from Stanford Hospital and Clinics discussing current topics in medicine.

In the above Stanford Hospital video, Montoya discusses the typical clinical course for CFS patients, potential causes of the illness and current research on the disorder

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/March 22 2011

In The Wall Street Journal Montoya's work was highlighted

Unlocking Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

Jose G. Montoya, a researcher at Stanford University, is searching for possible infectious agents in chronic fatigue syndrome. "If we can find the infectious triggers, we can provide intervention," he says. Dr. Montoya's team enrolled 30 patients with elevated levels of antibodies against Epstein-Barr virus and HHV-6, a herpes virus, in a trial and treated them with valganciclovir, an anti-viral medicine. Dr. Montoya says patients on the drug showed improvement in cognition and fatigue. Researchers are now analyzing the patients' immune proteins to see if there are patterns that will help doctors figure out in advance who will and won't respond to therapy.

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