Lyme Blog Posts
LYMEPOLICYWONK: IOM Report: ’Tis neither here nor there. Or?
The Institute of Medicine (IOM) has released its long awaited report on Lyme disease. So should we celebrate or despair? I think there is…
TOUCHED BY LYME: “Welcome to the Lyme wars, Janessa!”
(Book review) Who knew the IDSA Lyme treatment guidelines could be fodder for a rip-snorting mystery story?
TOUCHED BY LYME: Hope for those who have fallen through the medical cracks
(Book review) In his book, ON HOPE AND HEALING: FOR THOSE WHO HAVE FALLEN THROUGH THE MEDICAL CRACKS, Dr. Neil Nathan uses the tools of…
HARDSCIENCEONLYME: How Tick-Borne Diseases like Babesia and Anaplasma Persist
It is important to understand mechanisms of persistence in tick-borne diseases. Microbes use different mechanisms to evade the immune system and survive. A study by…
LYMEPOLICYWONK: Lyme disease abandoned by Pharma
When I first became involved with Lyme disease, I remember wondering where the pharmaceutical interest was in the disease. Most of your double blind…
LYMEPOLICYWONK: IDSA Lyme Guidelines—A Poster Child for Guidelines Reform? Institute of Medicine Says IDSA Lyme Guidelines Highlight Need for Change
I was surprised. I had just settled into my long read of the 217 page new Institute of Medicine report on guideline reform (Clinical…
TOUCHED BY LYME: Lyme advocates use Facebook to make global statement
When Liz Schmitz, of the Georgia Lyme Disease Association, used Facebook to locate other Lyme advocacy groups, she not only found scores of them in…
LYMEPOLICYWONK: Institute of Medicine Issues Recommendations on Developing Treatment Guidelines—It’s a Matter of Trust
Today, the Institute of Medicine released a new report “Clinical Practice Guidelines We Can Trust”. I haven’t read the entire report (217 pages), but…
LYMEPOLICYWONK: Who Died and Made You King? Eminence Based Medicine in Lyme Disease Breaks All the Rules
In the movie “The King’s Speech”, the Duke of York tells his unorthodox speech therapist Logue that he has “been t-t-treated f-or this by the…
LYMEPOLICYWONK: Meeting with Dr. Ben Beard of the CDC–The Importance of Dialogue and Lingering Concerns
Dr. Ben Beard of the CDC met with directors of CALDA on March 10 as part of an effort to reach out to Lyme patient…
Latest issue of Lyme Times
Topics covered in this issue include: Lyme in the Southeast Patient Voices When Lyme Shatters Your Family Recap of 2010…
HARD SCIENCE ON LYME: Removal of Western fence lizard decreases number of nymphal ticks and number of infected nymphal ticks.
A group of researchers, (Swei, Ostfeld, Lane, and Briggs), did a study on the western fence lizard recently that produced some interesting results. …