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Says LDA President Pat Smith, "These guidelines being upheld become another nail in the coffin for those afflicted with Lyme disease." Read More »

The IDSA Lyme review panel has finally issued its long-awaited report. It recommends against making any changes in the medical society's controversial Lyme treatment guidelines. Read More »

A letter from Dr. Charles Ray Jones, Lyme-treating pediatrician who has been disciplined by the Connecticut medical board. Read More »

When Gavin Peters, a well-known skateboarding sensation in the 1990s, became mysteriously debilitated in 1997, he was diagnosed and treated for MS, which just made him substantially worse. In 2005, he was found to actually have Lyme, but none of the treatments seemed to help.... Read More »

The CT state medical board has fined the controversial Lyme-treating pediatrician and placed his license on probation for four years. (The decision was made last month, but didn't become official until this week.) Read More »

Researchers from Yale University recently told a group orthopedic surgeons that they should have a high suspicion of Lyme disease when evaluating a child with a swollen knee. Read More »

A proposed MN law to protect Lyme doctors who prescribe long-term antibiotics has been laid aside. The Medical Practice Board has agreed to a 5-year moratorium on actions against physicians which are based solely on antibiotics therapy for chronic Lyme disease. Read More »

The journal "Minerva Medica" has published a study of the safety of IV therapy in 200 patients with neurological Lyme disease. The study concludes that with proper care of the IV device, risk to the patient is low. Read More »

Though Shasta County, CA, is known to harbor lots of ticks, few tick studies have been done in the area. Since November, a pair of district technicians have spent a day each week collecting tick samples from 20 spots around the district, which stretches from Castella to... Read More »