TOUCHED BY LYME: Saving money on Lyme-related lab tests
Paying out-of-pocket for lab testing can take a hefty toll on your family’s pocketbook. Here’s one way to save.
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Paying out-of-pocket for lab testing can take a hefty toll on your family’s pocketbook. Here’s one way to save.
When the CDC bumped its estimate of annual Lyme cases from 30,000 to ten times that, it made the evening news.
The CDC upped its official count of Lyme disease cases in the US to 300,000, ten times the previous number.
The past few months have seen a sharp rise in Lyme disease coverage in the national news media. Here are clickable links, in case you missed them.
In the July 1 issue of The New Yorker, reporter Michael Specter examined “The Lyme Wars.” Shortly after his article was published, NPR’s Terry Gross interviewed Specter on Fresh Air. Despite some accurate reporting, Specter repeated much IDSA standard misinformation as if it were fact, without noting that much of it has been disputed by many scientists. Pamela Cocks, managing editor of The Lyme Times, sent this response to the New Yorker, which chose not to print it. (The only letter the New Yorker published on the subject was from an IDSA-aligned organization.)
Updated edition of “ultimate guide for healthy travel” obscures the fact that Lyme is a world-wide concern.
In this guest blog, pathologist Alan MacDonald describes the struggle to publish the discovery of Borrelia biofilms and what the existence of these biofilms means for chronicity and treatment.
Guest blogger Jennifer Crystal explores what “fatigue” can mean to a person with chronic Lyme disease.
Her case underscores the need for extreme vigilance concerning ticks.
The US Mail brings a gift from the heart to help Lyme patients.
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