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LIVE BLOG OF THE IOM HEARING TAKING PLACE TODAY 4.29.10

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FROM 12:30pm EST to 5:00 pm EST

The agenda for the IOM Meeting today is here.   Background on the hearing  is here.

Stats on who is participating:

19 People signed up to give public comments

40 people in the room

Up to 50 people on the phone conference

12:30 pm EST Lonnie King, Chair

Scientific gaps

Uncertainties

To identify research

Substantially concerned by burden of disease on health

Lyme disease losing ground on CDC goals Healthy People 2010

Initiatives committee sensitive to people ill with serious

Open session

On the record

No questions from the floor

Press can talk with Christine Coussans

Information gathering session