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Come to see this sensational documentary on Lyme disease featuring investigative journalist and world-renowned physicians.
Come to see this sensational documentary on Lyme disease featuring investigative journalist and world-renowned physicians.
Biospace (6.3.2024) published a news release, “Valneva Announces Publication of Lyme Disease Phase 2 Trials in the Lancet Infectious Diseases.” Two Phase 2 clinical trials of Lyme disease vaccine candidate, VLA15, were published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases, a the peer-reviewed medical journal. This announcement was made by Valneva, a specialty vaccine company that has been working on development of a Lyme vaccine. Valneva announced that these trials, as well as a third Phase 2 trial in pediatric participants, support the design of Phase 3 trial, ‘Vaccine Against Lyme for Outdoor Recreationists’ (VALOR).
Global News, Kalina Laframboise, (6.01.2024) published, “Woman with ‘unmanageable’ pain from Lyme disease chooses to die. She wasn’t always believed.” Stéphanie Lavoie, a 30-year-old woman from Drummondville, Quebec, struggled with Lyme disease for years before requesting medical assistance in dying on May 17, 2024. She chose doctor-assisted death because she was in intractable pain spending most of her adult life fighting the escalating symptoms of Lyme disease that left her bedridden and unable to eat.
In this interview, Kenneth Liegner, MD, a Board Certified Internist with specialized training in Pathology and Critical Care Medicine, shares his journey into the world of Lyme disease, its evolving treatment, and his ongoing efforts to improve diagnostic methods and therapeutic solutions. Dr. Liegner offers valuable insights and reflections on tackling one of the most challenging and misunderstood diseases of our time.
In this May Awareness Guest Blog, we interview Richard Horowitz, MD, the Medical Director of the Hudson Valley Healing Arts Center. As a board-certified internal medicine specialist and a key member of various tick-borne disease working groups, Dr. Horowitz has dedicated his work to understanding and treating Lyme disease and other tick-borne illnesses.
In the summer of 2022, the Duke Law Lyme Disease Advocacy Project gained recognition as a formally recognized pro bono group within Duke University School of Law. Madison Pinckney and Luke Mears, who are now third year law students, founded the group as first year students. They wanted to help the Lyme disease community and provide with students with opportunities to work on legal, legislative, and advocacy questions centering around Lyme disease. The group partnered with the Lyme Disease Association and began researching and answering questions surrounding Lyme disease advocacy that have gone unanswered for years.
Dr. Maxwell is an expert on tick-borne disease surveillance and the use of triangulation and thematic mapping to assess tick-borne disease risk, particularly in perceived non-endemic areas and among vulnerable populations. Her recent work includes a grant from the Rita & Alex Hillman Foundation, titled Nursing in the Fields: Vector-borne Illness Prevention and Detection among Migrant and Seasonal Farmworkers. She has numerous publications on tick-borne diseases in high-impact journals. Dr. Maxwell served as a Fellow and continues her role as Faculty Affiliate at Boston University School of Medicine, Laboratory for Human Neurobiology. She is also a Research Affiliate, Center for Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy, George Mason University and founding member of Integrate, Communicate, Inform (ICI)-Vector-borne Disease Working Group.
Cynthia Cobb is a seasoned registered nurse with nearly 30 years of nursing experience. She is a master’s-prepared certified school nurse in New Jersey and is currently finishing her doctorate (DNP) degree in the specialty area of Systems-Level Leadership with an anticipated completion date this August 2024. Cynthia is the Lead Nurse for the West Deptford School District where she has worked for the past 13 years, the President of the Gloucester County School Nurses Association since November 2018, and an active member of both the New Jersey State School Nurses Association and the National Association of School Nurses.
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Welcome to the Lyme Disease Association’s LDA Doctor Referral System ©. LDA made updates and enhancements to its prior system and has launched a new site to provide patients with information about doctors, other practitioners, testing labs, and pharmacies that are knowledgeable about chronic Lyme disease and often about many other tick-borne diseases (TBD). Many of the doctors listed are often referred to as Lyme Literate Physicians/Doctors (LLMD). Tens of thousands of patients have successfully used the prior LDA system to locate Lyme and TBD resources.
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Because there is a negative political climate surrounding Lyme disease, many LLMDs do not want their names posted outright on the internet. LDA has tried to balance the doctors’ wishes with patients’ need to find a doctor. This new system is a result of that compromise and therefore:
Because of the limited number of physicians treating chronic Lyme disease nationwide, some states, and in some instances, entire regions, may not have any treating physicians who follow flexible treating approaches such as those in the International Lyme & Associated Diseases Society (ILADS) Guidelines, Evidence Assessments and Guideline Recommendations in Lyme Disease: The Clinical Management of Known Tick Bites, Erythema Migrans Rashes and Persistent Disease. In the event that the LDA Doctor Referral System © contains no Lyme or TBD resource listings in a given area, the closest possible option(s) will populate based on the location entered and specaialty/ies selected. The LDA appreciates any changes in provider information that you may find and make us aware of so we can investigate.
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