October 2014

If the FDA gets its way, physicians would only have access to diagnostic tests for tick borne diseases that are FDA approved.  This would eliminate “specialty labs,” and severely restrict a clinicians ability to diagnose Lyme disease, as well as other tick-borne co-infections. This is a dangerous move in a period when we’re seeing an […]

A read of the International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society (ILADS) 2014 evidence based guidelines says otherwise.  The ILADS guidelines focus on the risk of poor outcomes such as chronic neurologic Lyme disease, Lyme encephalopathy, and post-Lyme disease syndrome. The ILADS guidelines highlight the poor evidence using the Institute of Medicine’s recommended evidence grading system.  The

Fibromyalgia and Lyme disease symptoms can include muscle pain, fatigue, sleep disturbances, gastrointestinal complaints, difficulty concentrating, headaches and temperature, light and sound sensitivities. Women are also more likely to be diagnosed with the condition. According to the National Institutes of Health, between 80% and 90% of people diagnosed with fibromyalgia are women. The treatments, unfortunately, are not