Lyme Times
Summer 2009 Issue

Table Of Contents
LymeTimes Summer 2009 Issue
In the Balance: Status Quo or Scientific Integrity for Lyme disease

Patients, doctors, scientists deliver testimony to IDSA Review panel

By Phyllis Mervine, EdM

3
Preparing for Historic IDSA Hearing

The ILADS team that made it happen

By Lorraine Johnson, JD, MBA

7
Teamwork Works!

Leading Lyme organizations push for recognition of patient interests

By Diane Blanchard

11
LDA Challenges IDSA Guidelines Restrictions on Access to Care

Physicians should be free to apply clinical judgement in the face of unsettled science

By Lyme Disease Association

30
Medical Specialists Object to Rigid Lyme disease Guidelines for Diagnosis and Treatment

Individual care for individual patients requires professional judgment

By Association of American Physicians and Surgeons

39
IDSA Guidelines Limit Access to Care in UK

Recommends regional guidelines to allow adequate treatment options

By Lyme Disease Action

40
IDSA Guidelines Harm Patients in Germany

DBG registers objections to IDSA Lyme Guidelines

By Deutsche Borreliose-Gesellschaft (DBG)

42
Critique of IDSA Constraints on Lyme Research

Guidelines restrict research design and distort data on chronic Lyme

By Cheryl Koopman, PhD, and Daniel Cameron, MD

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