Live hearings will be conducted July 30 to review the 2006 guidelines for Lyme and other tick-borne diseases published by the Infectious Diseases Society of America. The review by an impartial panel is the result of a legal agreement between the IDSA and the attorney general of Connecticut, following an investigation into alleged improprieties and conflicts of interest on behalf of the guidelines authors. The panel will hear testimony from clinicians, researchers, and others who espouse various opinions on the proper diagnosis and treatment of tick-borne disease.
The hearings will be made public through a live feed on July 30, 8-5, at http://www.idsociety.org/WorkArea/showcontent.aspx?id=14974 and then will be archived on the IDSA website.
The legal agreement can be found at http://www.ct.gov/ag/lib/ag/health/idsaagreement.pdf
and the press release about the agreement is at http://www.ct.gov/ag/cwp/view.asp?Q=414284&A=2795
This hearing will be the confluence of many current medical issues: conflicts of interest, patients' rights, generalizing research, the weight given guidelines by insurance companies and clinicians, emerging infectious disease, evidence-based medicine, and the standard of care. As the US government looks to improve access to quality healthcare, I hope these issues are reflected on by researchers, clinicians, and legislators alike.
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- Maine, United States
- I have been involved in Lyme disease advocacy since 2001, when Lyme disease first interrupted a 25-year career in the arts. Transitioning to the library field, I obtained a masters in library and information science, with coursework in consumer health, management, information organization, collection development, and digital libraries. I received certification in consumer health information from the Medical Library Association in 2009.