The following are citations of articles on CFS medical treatment that your =
doctor may
find useful.

Conservative approaches

"Management of a Patient with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome" by Nelson Gantz; ap=
pears
as Chapter 14 in the book "Chronic Fatigue Syndrome" edited by David Dawson=
 and
Thomas Sabin, 1993, Little, Brown & Co.

"Treatment of the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: A Review and Practical Guide", =
Edith
Blonde-Hill and Stephen D. Shafran, Drugs 46(4):639-651, October 1993.

"Psychotropic Treatment of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Related Disorders",=
 PJ
Goodnick and R Sandoval; J Clin Psychiatry 54(1):13-20 January 1993

Moderate/aggressive approaches

[The following are available by mail order from the CFIDS Association of Am=
erica,
Inc., PO Box 220398, Charlotte, NC 28222-0398 USA. Several of these are als=
o
available on Internet by e-mail retrieval; see instructions below.]

"Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is a Real Disease", Charles Lapp; North Carolina =
Family
Physician, Winter 1992. $3.00

Series of articles in Sept. '92 "Diagnosis" edition of CFIDS Chronicle, by =
Drs. Bell,
Calabrese et al., Cheney and Lapp, Jay Goldstein, Hickie and Wakefield, Kli=
mas, and
other useful letters and reports. $8.00

Series of articles in Fall 1993 "Treatment" edition of CFIDS Chronicle, by =
Drs.
Cheney and Lapp, Dimitri Viza and Giancarlo Pizza, Perry Orens, Edward Conl=
ey
DO, Burke Cunha, James McCoy, Jay Goldstein and others. $10.00

Book: "The Doctor's Guide to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome", Dr. David Bell, 199=
4.
$21.00.

Book: "Living With M.E.", Dr. Charles Shepherd, M.D., revised 1992. $15.00

There are a series of medical articles on the diagnosis and treatment of CF=
S which are
available on the STJOHNS Listserv on the Internet. See Appendix 2 at the en=
d of this
document.

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