An experimental test may help confirm cases of chronic fatigue syndrome

A new device could offer an effective way of diagnosing myalgic encephalomyelitis, also known as chronic fatigue syndrome. People with the disease experience symptoms such as fatigue, sleep abnormalities, and pain, but it’s been notoriously hard to diagnose.

Stanford’s Ron Davis first got the idea for the device back in 2015 while attending an event at the Institute of Medicine where panelists debated whether the disease was a real condition, he recalled.

But he knew it was real. His son, then in his