Lyme Blog Posts
Gooznews takes on conflicts in guidelines
Gooznews posted an interesting commentary on guidelines, conflicts of interest in guideline development and over reliance on expert panels when there are gaps in evidence…
Weinstein Off the IDSA Guidelines Review Panel!
Arthur Weinstein's role on the IDSA's Lyme guidelines review panel was short lived. Today's list of panel members posted on the IDSA website excludes…
TOUCHED BY LYME: A roadmap for Lyme disease
When my family and I needed to quickly come up to speed about Lyme disease several years ago, I looked for a book that would…
The IDSA panel–Q and A
Many people have questions about the IDSA panel, its selection and where we are in the process. This posting I will attempt to answer…
TOUCHED BY LYME: No Lyme in (your zip code here)
Several years ago when my daughter first came down with mysterious disabling symptoms that no doctor could diagnose, my neighbor said, “Sounds like it could…
IDSA Announces New Guidelines Panel–Balanced or Biased?
The IDSA panel list for the Lyme disease guidelines review panel were announced on Monday. The IDSA has a history of stacking its guidelines panels…
Bias and patient autonomy—what’s the connection
Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. So why do we care about bias in medical guidelines? Because opinion should not dictate patient…
Opinion based medicine
For those who haven’t read, the recent New York Times article, "Plenty of Guidelines, but Where's the Evidence?" by D. Sanghavi, M.D., I suggest you…
TOUCHED BY LYME: Like Alice Down the Rabbit Hole
I fell into the alternate reality of Lyme disease four years ago when, seemingly overnight, my teenage daughter became seriously debilitated and none of the…
Conflicting views on conflicts—throwing the baby out with the bathwater
Conflicts of interest are not good for medicine. Why? Because when a physician has a conflict a secondary considerations (such as a lab referrals,…
Attorney General findings–IDSA wrong doing
In May 2008, after an extensive investigation, the Attorney General announced a settlement of the antitrust investigation into the IDSA guidelines development process. The…
IDSA Now Accepting Applications For Panel Members For Guidelines Review Panel
The IDSA is now accepting applications from clinicians and scientists for a seat on its new Lyme disease guidelines review panel, which will consist of…