http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/0...d=8150816&_r=0


Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Gets a New Name

By Karen Barrow February 10, 2015 11:01 am

The Institute of Medicine on Tuesday proposed a new name and new diagnostic criteria for the condition that many still call chronic fatigue syndrome.

An institute panel recommended that the illness be renamed “systemic exertion intolerance disease.” The term reflects what patients, clinicians and researchers all agree is a core symptom: a sustained depletion of energy following minimal activity, called post-exertional malaise.

The new name “really describes much more directly the key feature of the illness, which is the inability to tolerate both physical and cognitive exertion,” said Dr. Peter Rowe, a member of the panel and a pediatrician at Johns Hopkins who treats children with the condition.

There's more at the link. I do agree that the post-exertional malaise is probably the most frustrating symptom of this illness to me, but I can't help but wonder how many people, aside from people with the illness, will understand what it means.

I do give them brownie points for trying to come up with a better name for this illness.