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Babesiosis Can Be Spread Through Blood Transfusions

June 21, 2011

Many Lyme patients also have Babesiosis (or Babesia), a malaria-like infection that lives in red blood cells and can be fatal. While Lyme doctors have known about Babesia and test and treat for it, there hasn’t been much said about it in the press. That’s why articles like this one in the New York Times [...]

Lyme Disease: A Modern Tuskegee Experiment

February 11, 2011

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Lyme Disease: A Modern Tuskegee Experiment

Alix from SpiroChicks wrote a biting article for Technorati Women comparing the stonewalling and politics around Lyme Disease diagnosis and treatment to the Tuskegee Syphilis experiment of the mid 1900′s. In it she says: . . . If you had syphilis and your symptoms came back after standard treatment, or if you knew you’d contracted [...]

Could Mila Kunis Surgery For Blindness Be Lyme-Related?

January 11, 2011

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Actress Mila Kunis, star of Oscar hopeful Black Swan, has revealed that she had eye surgery in late 2010 to correct blindness in one eye. According to Kunis, she suffered from an inflammation of the iris (known as chronis iritis) and needed to have her eye’s lens replaced in order to restore her sight. Lyme [...]

Tick Repellant Clinical Trial

December 11, 2010

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GenoPrint Corporation is planning a large, formalized clinical trial of a natural tick repellant before releasing it for sale to the public. According to the company, this nontoxic, non-carcinogenic repellant has no perfume odor (natural or chemical), no oily or greasy ingredients, and no chemicals. GenoPrint is looking for subjects at risk of significant tick [...]

Medical Guidelines Based on Minimal Evidence

May 30, 2010

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Thanks to the California Lyme Disease Association (CALDA) for this heads up. According to Lorraine Johnson, the CALDA Lyme Policy Wonk, two poster sessions at the IDSA annual meeting last fall stated that most of IDSA treatment guidelines, including those for Lyme Disease, are based mainly on opinion, not actual scientific evidence. Only 15% of [...]

IDSA Review Panel Upholds Lyme Treatment Guidelines

April 22, 2010

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Looks like the battle for long-term Lyme treatment continues! Press Release April 22, 2010 SPECIAL REVIEW PANEL UNANIMOUSLY UPHOLDS LYME DISEASE TREATMENT GUIDELINES Short-term Antibiotics Proven to be Best Treatment for Patients Infectious Disease Society of America News Release Arlington, Virginia – A special Review Panel has unanimously agreed that no changes need be made [...]