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The Mayday Project continues to put pressure on the IDSA to follow the Institute of Medicine Standards for Guidelines Development and for the removal of panelists with the most serious conflicts of interest. Mayday has scheduled a conference, protest, and vigil at IDSA headquarters in Arlington VA from April 29 through May 1. Now it is more important than ever for patients to stand together and demand change.
The Infectious Diseases Society of America plans on revising its guidelines for the treatment of Lyme disease. On March 9, IDSA released a project plan to update the guidelines. The plan provides a period for public comment, which ends April 24. The current treatment guidelines were developed in 2006 and reviewed in 2009, but without leading to any substantial change.
The IDSA project plan states that the review process will follow the Institute of Medicine’s (IOM) standards for trustworthy guidelines, but according to a recent article by LymeDisease.org the composition of the new panel already violates the standards. The IOM standards require guidelines panels to include representatives of key affected groups. The current panel, however, includes no Lyme patients and no independent physicians who treat them. . . .
"My office uncovered undisclosed financial interests held by several of the most powerful IDSA panelists. The IDSA’s guideline panel improperly ignored or minimized consideration of alternative medical opinion and evidence regarding chronic Lyme disease, potentially raising serious questions about whether the recommendations reflected all relevant science." - Senator Richard Blumenthal when he was Connecticut Attorney General.
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poppy
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The reason the IDSA is violating the IOM standards is because it might lead to more honest guidelines. So, as usual the lying weasels are doing everything possible to avoid that.
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