Keebler
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- Wow. First that link took me to a Baxter pharmaceutical site and asked me to register. (I think that was the company as it did not do that the second time.)
I came back here and clicked again on your link - and the proper site connected.
Thanks for the link. Key excerpts:
Allison DeLong, a biostatistician at Brown University�s Center for Statistical Sciences and lead author of the study published online Aug. 19, 2012, in Contemporary Clinical Trials,
said the four studies do not prove that retreatment does not work. That questionable interpretation, however, has led doctors to forgo treatment and insurance companies to withhold reimbursement.
�The goal of the paper is to clarify what was actually found from these clinical trials and what could be said and what couldn�t be said,� DeLong says. �A lack of evidence should not be used to deny treatment when the studies have serious flaws.� . . .
. . . " . . . it is possible that chronic Lyme disease patients harbor an ongoing infection that antibiotics could treat.
�The interpretation of the trials goes too far,� she says. �You can�t say it�s been shown that retreatment is not beneficial.
You can�t then jump to the conclusion that this shows there is no persistence of infection.� . . . -
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poppy
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Lorraine has a new blog entry on her site at Calif lyme:
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