Educational
Update on the ILADS Lyme Guidelines
Although the ILADS guidelines are no longer listed on the NGC, they have not expired. The current guidelines will remain in effect until they are replaced by ILADS revised guidelines, which ILADS is currently in the process of updating.
Chronic Lyme Disease Controversy
ILADS president elect Robert Bransfield and Dr. Zemel on the radio...
High Anxiety (Neurological Lyme Disease, Part Three)
Robert Bransfield is a psychiatrist with a practice in Red Bank, New Jersey, along the sleepy Navesink River, just inland from the glitz and neon of the Jersey shore. Tall and professorial, with a charm and humility so natural it catches you by surprise, Bransfield seems an unlikely rebel, but experience with patients at the heart of the Lyme epidemic has left him little choice. The first Lyme disease patient he brought back from the brink worked as an assistant to a veterinarian, making her risk for exposure especially high....
ILADS member Virginia Sherr have been profiled by Pam Weintraub in the on-line extension of the popular magazine, Psychology Today?
If Sherr possesses a special reverence for life, it might be because she, herself, has journeyed back from the depths of a once-inexplicable, truly terrifying, illness. The illness, it would turn out, was a combination of Lyme and other tickborne diseases. Sherr's experience, ultimately published in a medical journal, was so surreal it read like an anecdote right out of Oliver Sacks (the pioneering neurologist and author of Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat.) In fact, Sherr's description of her patient experience was so compelling and precise that Sacks himself wrote an introductory note. When physicians experience disease for themselves, Sacks said, a special level of understanding and "a unique double narrative" can result....
Shadowland of the Mind - It is a world eclipsed by strange lapses of memory and broken speech.
The first time I met a group of severely disabled Lyme disease patients I spent hours listening to their stories, some of them heartbreaking, and mourned, with them, their lives of frustration and pain. A month later, when I met the same patients again, several could not recall me. At first I was insulted. Had I been that forgettable, my empathy that banal? ...
Save the date for the 2009 ILADS Professional Conference
The 2009 annual scientific session will be held Saturday and Sunday October 24-25, 2009 at the Gaylord National resort just outside Washington, D.C....
Book: The Baker's Dozen & the Lunatic Fringe: Has Junk Science Shifted the Lyme Disease Paradigm?
New Book Exposes “Junk Science,” Conflicts of Interest, Disease Guidelines Affecting Millions Critical evidence revealed about IDSA guidelines, science, researchers examined in recent Anti-Trust Investigation...- The Diane Rehm show from American University Radio discussed Lyme disease on WAMU radio
- ILADS guidelines becomes a standard of care
- IDSA hearing July 30, 2009
- ILADS summarizes its push for the Freedom to Practice Medicine
- ILADS Members Question Motives of New England Journal of Medicine Article on Lyme Disease Treatment
- Dr. Edwin Master's passed away on father's day
- Lawmakers challenged with Lyme Disease
- Experts debate Lyme disease-violence claim
- Chronic Lyme Disease Controversy
- Update on the ILADS Lyme Guidelines
R-Anne
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24 February, 2010 09:18:52
Thank You for issuing this press release to clarify why the guidelines have not been updated. Many in the Lyme community had been given ...
Irene Bayersdorfer
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01 August, 2009 08:01:14
I have been diagnosed many times as having a positive reaction from the Lyme profile, however in most cases a Western blot was not ordered. ...
trishden
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31 July, 2009 09:50:08
Thanks Sue I won't bother wasting my time listening to the regurgitations of
IDSA & ALDF. Although Dr. Bransfield is one of the good guys ...
Ivanko
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30 July, 2009 04:09:37
ILADS is my favorite.
Oliver Brody
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27 July, 2009 08:32:10
Will the webcast be available to watch after the conference?
