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Hearing for bill H. 901 and S. 502, An Act Relative to Lyme Disease Treatment Coverage.
Date: Tuesday, October 20 at 11:00 am in the Gardner Auditorium at the Massachusetts State House
B. Sharma, A. Brown, K. Lewis; Northeastern Univ., Boston, MA Lyme disease, caused by the spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi, is the most common vector-borne infection in North America and Europe. In 10-20% of cases, patients develop chronic Lyme disease after completing antibiotic treatment. The cause of these chronic symptoms is, however, poorly understood. We have previously…
Evidence Based Medicine began as a “bottom-up” paradigm that taught medical residents to search the literature for the best available evidence and to critically appraise it for making patient care decisions.
From study author Marianne Middelveen:Â Motile spirochetes identified as Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto were cultured from vaginal and seminal secretions and that supports other evidence that there could be sexual transmission. We are at the early stages of investigation and there is a lot more that we have to learn. We are doing a larger study…
You can listen here at https://www.630ched.com/audio-vault/ Select May 25th, 9 am, then drag the scroll bar to 8:55 for the beginning of the Lyme talk.
May 24, 2015 12:15 am By Prof. Holly Ahern The recent letter to the editor by Lauren Meilhede, M.D. to a Post-Star article underscores the controversy that surrounds the diagnosis and treatment of Lyme disease. As a scientist with experience sorting through scholarly research on microbiology and medicine, I would like to address some of…
All of Nova Scotia is endemic for Lyme disease says Brenda Sterling-Goodwin Brenda Sterling-Goodwin joins us to discuss ticks and Lyme disease. Listen to radio show
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The first 25 minutes of this show the power of advocacy and how thoroughly the three speakers, Pat Smith, Dr. Elizabeth Maloney of ILADS, and attorney Wendy Murphy have mastery over the subject of Lyme disease and the unmet needs of their clients/ members in short 3.5 – 4 minute presentations. Video 1 features Dr. Sam Donta who turned his back on his own IDSA guidelines committee and his observation that the wrong question was asked when the first long term government trials of antibiotics were used for Lyme. He wanted to know what it was about the 2 antibiotics used that made this trial fail.