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Yet another United States state enacts a law to protect doctors who treat Lyme disease appropriately.

ByCanLyme Team

Unanimous legislative approval for bill on Lyme Disease treatment

March 22nd, 2017 by O. Kay Henderson

The Iowa legislature has voted to let Iowa doctors prescribe more aggressive treatment for Lyme Disease than is currently allowed by the state’s Board of Medicine, but the state’s medical community opposes the move.

According to Representative Sandy Salmon of Janesville, the state Board of Medicine disciplined two doctors for prescribing antibiotics for more than 30 days as treatment for Lyme Disease.

“This has had the effect of quashing the willingness of Iowa medical providers to treat and even diagnose Lyme Disease,” Salmon said during House debate of the bill.

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