Tag Archive | "Lyme Disease"
Lyme Disease-Borreliosis Around the World
Lyme disease gets its name from Lyme, Connecticut, where a group of teens suffered from a mysterious arthritic condition in the mid 1970s. By the late 1970s, U.S. scientists had determined that infected blacklegged (Ixodes) ticks transmitted the disease. In 1981, Swiss-American researcher Willy Burgdorfer identified the spirochete bacterium, which was named Borrelia burgdorferi after [...]
Continue reading...How Lyme Disease Affects the Immune System
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
Lyme disease is like no other bacterial infection. With most bacterial infections, you expect to take an antibiotic and be over the infection within a week to 10 days. Despite treatment, however, many people with Lyme disease often end up with more serious, widespread infection. Borrelia burgdorferi: An odd bacterium The Borrelia burgdorferi spirochete causes [...]
Continue reading...Medical Guidelines Based on Minimal Evidence
Sunday, May 30, 2010
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 [...]
Continue reading...IDSA Review Panel Upholds Lyme Treatment Guidelines
Thursday, April 22, 2010
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 [...]
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Making Fun of Lyme Disease is No Joking Matter
Tuesday, 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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Monday, January 3, 2011
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