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Is CFS a psychological illness? While fatigue is a common complaint, those individuals who have chronic fatigue lasting more than six months and who meet the CDC criteria for chronic fatigue syndrome have a condition than can be serious and disabling. Recent research does show laboratory abnormalities in the CFS patient population, although the search continues for a specific...

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• Crohn's Disease
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• Coxsackievirus
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• COPD
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• Constipation
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• Common Cold
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• Colorectal Cancer
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• Colitis
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• Colic
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• Coarctation of the Aorta
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• Cirrhosis
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• Chlamydia
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• Cataracts
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• Celiac Disease
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• Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
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• Cerebrovascular Accident (CVA)
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• Croup
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