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IDSA Lyme Hearing Review
I spent the day July 30, 2009 glued to two computers on my desk. On one I watched the streamed IDSA hearing. On the other I tweeted my comments with other Twitter members with Lyme. It was an exhausting day but well worth the effort. In a nutshell, nine IDSA panelists, none of them among [...]
Continue reading...IDSA Lyme Review Panel Hearing 7/30/09
July 20, 2009
On July 30, the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) will hold a day-long hearing in Washington DC to review its controversial 2006 Lyme disease treatment guidelines. This hearing is part of an antitrust settlement Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal negotiated to address “serious flaws” in the IDSA guidelines. Read the Attorney General’s press release [...]
Continue reading...Making Fun of Lyme Disease is No Joking Matter
May 5, 2009
There was a Lyme community kerfluffle today with Kodak over their Mother’s Day ad on their Mom-A-Thon website. [Note: the website is no longer available, but a YouTube video is. See link below.] The tongue-in-cheek idea of the promotion is to save a mother afflicted with Lackus Appreciatis, an “overwhelming feeling of recurring unappreciatedness and [...]
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August 18, 2009
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