Lyme Blog Posts
ILADS Submits
Pop the cork off the Champagne and let the fireworks rip! ILADS made its document submission for the IDSA Lyme disease review panel. …
Panel stacking: It’s not magic. It’s deception
The IDSA trots out bad faith move after bad faith move to ensure that their Lyme disease guidelines are rubberstamped quickly and quietly. IDSA…
Patients know enough medicine to smell a rat
Most guidelines panels are heavily populated by academics. Why is that? Take the IDSA guidelines Lyme disease panel in 2006—all academic researchers. …
TOUCHED BY LYME: Kids need to feel safe and protected, and so do their families (Guest blog by Sandy Berenbaum)
When I started my psychotherapy practice 22 years ago, specializing in adolescents and families, I recognized that, as a mother and as a psychotherapist, the…
TOUCHED BY LYME: When a medical problem calls for non-medical help
I recently received a phone call from a mom whose two teen-aged sons are terribly ill with Lyme and coinfections. In addition to all the…
TOUCHED BY LYME: Lymelife for Dogs
There’s a scene in the Lyme documentary Under Our Skin, where somebody demonstrates how to “flag” for ticks. With his trusty long-haired dog trotting through…
IDSA Lyme disease review panel date set for July 30th! New calendar attached
The IDSA has set the review panel date for July 30th. None of the other calendar dates have changed. The applications for the…
POLITICAL ACTION: History of Federal Lyme Legislation, Part 8
You never pass legislation in a vacuum. The backdrop for the ongoing efforts to pass the Lyme bills included, in August 2005, Hurricane Katrina. In…
JAMA to conflict of interest breaches—silence is golden
JAMA is having a personality conflict with itself. After publishing 3 very strong articles on the ethics in guidelines development, it has asked those…
POLITICAL ACTION: History of Federal Lyme Legislation, Part 7
It was 2005, the first session of the 109th Congress. There were two competing bills in the House, and no Senate bill. No one knew…
Let’s give a hand to Volkman–a little thank you can go a long way
Sometimes someone does something so wonderful. Really! Something so wonderful that you have to stop, take a breath, exhale, and look again. …
POLITICAL ACTION: History of Federal Lyme Legislation, Part 6
Some advocates had not been satisfied with the amended LIFT bill that had passed the Senate on consent in 2002. Since many people seemed unclear…