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LYMEPOLICYWONK: SIGN THE PETITION TO REMOVE THE IDSA GUIDELINES FROM THE NGC!

Medical treatment guidelines are tremendously important in determining your treatment options. All important treatment guidelines are listed by the National Guidelines Clearinghouse (NGC), which is part of the US Department of Health and Human Services. It’s the government’s way of providing updated information about different diseases to health care professionals. NGC’s own rules require that listed guidelines be updated every 5 years. The Infectious Diseases Society of America has not revised its controversial Lyme disease guidelines for more than 5 years. Nevertheless, the NGC recently permitted the IDSA to continue listing the Lyme guidelines without updating them. Continue reading →

LYMEPOLICYWONK: The IDSA Guidelines And Embers At a Glance Table.

03 May
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I have blogged about the Embers study previously. The Embers study essentially dismantles much of the science that the IDSA relies on in their Lyme guidelines. This post presents a table of the IDSA guideline assumptions and recommendations that the Embers study refutes. This is just one of the many, many reasons the IDSA guidelines should be revised.
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