Contagion Chronic Lyme Controversy Videos
Discussion produced by Contagion in 13 video segments. Panel members: ILADS doctors – Sam Shor, MD, Robert Bransfield, MD; Pat Smith, LDA President; Leonard Sigal, MD. Moderator: Peter Salgo, MD […]
Discussion produced by Contagion in 13 video segments. Panel members: ILADS doctors – Sam Shor, MD, Robert Bransfield, MD; Pat Smith, LDA President; Leonard Sigal, MD. Moderator: Peter Salgo, MD […]
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.
May 30, 2024 • 6 – 9 PM
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Monroeville Senior Citizens
6000 Gateway Campus Boulevard, Monroeville, PA 15146
May 23, 2024 • 6 – 9 PM
FREE Screening
Delaware County Community College
901 Media Line Road, Media, PA 19063
May 21, 2024 • 6 – 9 PM
FREE Screening
Midtown Cinema
250 Reily Street, Harrisburg, PA 17102
May 16, 2024 • 6 – 9 PM
FREE Screening
Ephrata Public Library – Community Commons
560 South Reading Road, Ephrata, PA 17522
May 7, 2024 • 6 – 9 PM
FREE Screening
Frank Banko Alehouse Cinemas
101 Founders Way, Bethlehem, PA 18015
Journal of Infectious Diseases & Therapy (Kinderlehrer, DA), 04.25.24 published “Chronic Lyme Disease: Why Is This Still Controversial?” In this article, Lyme Literate Medical Doctor, Daniel Kinderlehrer, MD describes that […]
Courthouse News Service (Langford, C.) 11.16.2023, published “Fifth Circuit rejects Lyme disease patients’ coverage-denial conspiracy claims.” The article discusses the ruling of a legal case where patients with long-term Lyme disease were denied coverage and sued the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) for their stance on chronic Lyme disease. The patients alleged that the IDSA conspired with health insurers to establish guidelines that limited treatment for Lyme disease […]
First Run Features, an independent film distribution company, has acquired U.S. rights to The Quiet Epidemic, a documentary film about Chronic Lyme and other tick-borne diseases.
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About LDA DOCTOR REFERRAL SYSTEM ©
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.
Some providers may not specifically treat Lyme and TBD but see patients who have symptoms associated with Lyme and TBD to address those specific symptoms. Contact the provider to confirm.
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