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LYMEPOLICYWONK: Update on TBD Working Group. How did we do?

JUN

2018

...centered outcomes, shared medical decision-making, patient engagement in research, and innovative research designs. I believe that unless the patients are at the center of research and the results of clinical research apply to patients seen in... Read More »

An anthropologist’s view of Lyme disease and suicide

JUN

2018

...ase syndrome,” there is a great deal of controversy over the use of longer-term courses of antibiotics. Research has shown that Lyme spirochetes can take hold in a patient, even in the face of aggressive antibiotics, making... Read More »

LYMEPOLICYWONK: Is shared decision making the wave of the future?

JUN

2018

...n making has enormous potential to increase access to care and reduce long term costs of illness. “Patient preferences should be incorporated into all clinical decisions, but mandatory shared decision making will probably have... Read More »

LYMEPOLICYWONK: What I told TBDWG about “two standards of care” for Lyme disease

JUN

2018

...clinical judgment and leave patients without treatment options when short term therapy fails–as it does in far too many cases. Less than 10% of patients with persistent Lyme disease choose to be treated under IDSA protocols.... Read More »

Study: more Lyme-carrying ticks in more places in US

JUL

2018

Why cases of Lyme disease are so undercounted

...from every state except Alaska. Typical tick collection methods involve researchers canvasing various terrain with large sheet-like material, which collects ticks, but does not take into account a tick’s natural attraction to mammals. The... Read More »