Lyme Blog Posts
TOUCHED BY LYME: No Lyme in California?
Today I attended California's Lyme Disease Advisory Committee meeting in Sacramento. It's a group which advises the state health department on tick-borne disease issues. I…
TOUCHED BY LYME: Did Lyme contribute to killing of pastor?
The eyes of the Lyme community are riveted on this week’s tragic shooting death of an Illinois minister. The alleged shooter, 27-year-old Terry Sedlacek, has…
TOUCHED BY LYME: Financial help for Lyme drugs?
Sooner or later, anyone dealing with Lyme disease comes face to face with the high cost of prescription medicines. Even those who start out with…
TOUCHED BY LYME: "Beating Lyme"
The task for an author who wants to write a book about Lyme disease is daunting. This is due not only to the complex illness…
Is evidence-based medicine bankrupt?
Merrill Goozner at Gooznews cites a recent JAMA article by Tricoci showing that nearly half of the recommendations in treatment guidelines are not…
TOUCHED BY LYME: Lyme-Autism connection?
A few years back, Tami Duncan was a mother of an autistic son, searching for ways to help her child. As it happened, she also…
IDSA Panel–Document submission changes
In response to concerns raised by patient's organizations and physicians about the document submission process–which initially tried to limit submissions to five pages–the IDSA has…
JAMA–Why guideline making requires reform
A recent article by Sniderman and Furberg, “Why Guideline Making Requires Reform” is a remarkably comprehensive over-view of the pitfalls of evidence based guidelines. The…
Stimulating distrust?
On February 17, 2009, President Obama signed into law a stimulus program that includes $1.1 billion for comparative effectiveness research. The Partnership to Improve…
TOUCHED BY LYME: Ticks in the snow
The photo to the left is an engorged Ixodes Pacificus, otherwise known as the western black-legged tick, notorious carrier of Lyme disease, sitting on snow…
Gostin JAMA article–Politics as usual?
How is it that one week JAMA publishes an article by Sniderman and Furberg, "Why Guidelines Require Reform", on the urgent need to for guideline…
TOUCHED BY LYME: Wisdom of the Lyme Crowd
As a Lyme support group leader, the first piece of advice I give anyone dealing with tick-borne infections is to join at least one on-line…