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In a letter to the Poughkeepsie Journal, Holly Ahern, Lyme Disease advocate and an associate professor of microbiology at the State University of New York Adirondack does an excellent job weighing in on Lyme Disease and why Governor Cuomo should sign the NYS Patient Rights/Doctor Protection bill.
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ABOUT THE BILL: Bill S7854/A7558B is crucial to the welfare of NY Lyme patients. There are diverse opinions in the medical community about how to treat many diseases – especially Lyme disease, where there are 2 medically accepted standards of care. This bill protects all NY patients’ rights to choose peer-reviewed evidence-based treatments by protecting doctors, who treated chronic Lyme disease with long-term antibiotics from unfounded harassment. Bill S7854 prohibits the investigation of any claim of medical professional misconduct based solely on treatment “that is not universally accepted by the medical profession.”
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Valley View: Lyme is most misunderstood disease since AIDS
With the possible exception of HIV/AIDS, no infectious disease in recent history has been as misunderstood, maligned or politicized as Lyme disease.
After more than two decades of controversy and government neglect, Lyme disease has become too large an issue to ignore any longer. A year ago, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that only 1 in 10 cases of Lyme disease were properly reported to public health agencies and increased the likely incidence to more than 300,000 new cases of Lyme disease in the U.S. per year. As a highly endemic state, a significant proportion of those cases are in New York. . .
From: Jessica Bernstein <[email protected]> Date: November 10, 2014 4:07:48 PM EST To: Jessica Bernstein <[email protected]> Subject: Urgent: Poughkeepsie Journal Op-Ed
As some of you know, microbiology professor Holly Ahern recently wrote a fantastic op-ed for the Poughkeepsie Journal discussing why Cuomo should sign the Lyme bill in New York. So far it has 1,700 Facebook likes and the Poughkeepsie has moved it front and center on their home page and they already have a reporter working on an article about the NYS bill. We need to heavily do our own press with this op-ed by liking and sharing it on Facebook and showing the P.J. that there's a huge readership for these kinds of articles. My Truthout Lyme articles usually get between 8,000 and 11,000 Facebook likes so we should be able to get the #s up on this outstanding op-ed.
We should also flood it with comments. It really makes a HUGE difference when editors see a big response and it helps those of us writing articles because then when we submit to mainstream publications we can point to how there's a large readership for these types of articles which makes a difference to them in terms of advertising.
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Following on the heels of Holly Ahern's call for NY Governor Cuomo to sign the Patients' Rights/Doctor Protection Bill, the Poughkeepsie Journal's Editorial Board solidly seconds the motion!
You, too, can ask Governor Cuomo to sign the bill by going to http://www.cuomo123.comto have your voice heard.
Battling Lyme starts with Cuomo's signature
Poughkeepsie Journal Editorial Board 4:29 p.m. EST November 12, 2014
Now that a hectic election season is over, lawmakers have a chance to settle many lingering issues for the betterment of people – including helping those fighting diseases and other health risks.
Here is an excellent place to start: Gov. Andrew Cuomo should make good on his promise to call up and sign a bill aimed at protecting doctors who provide long-term treatment for Lyme disease.
Specifically, this much-needed measure would enable physicians to prescribe long-term antibiotic therapy to a patient with symptoms of chronic Lyme disease without fear of retribution from government regulators.
Just days before Election Day, the governor told the Poughkeepsie Journal, "I want to sign the Lyme bill." He revealed there were some "technical issues" that likely would have be resolved during the implementation of the law, but clearly indicated these matters wouldn't prohibit him from signing the measure into law. . . .
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