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 [...]
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Early Stage Lyme If Lyme Disease is diagnosed within the first few weeks after infection and treated with antibiotics for long enough, it can frequently be cured. Unfortunately, there’s no general agreement on what “long enough” means. Most doctors prescribe an antibiotic for two to three weeks, four weeks tops. Often this is not enough. [...]
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