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Amazing that they just keep brazenly pushing their stuff even after an attorney general found fault with their guidelines. These guys are unbelievable.
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This is from the IDSA NEWS website dated February 2009.
It looks as if they are concerned Lyme bills may be passed that might provide patients with rights to treatment. Apparently they are working hard to prevent states from considering Lyme bills.
Advocacy Update: IDSA Expresses Concern About State Lyme Disease Bills
IDSA recently sent letters to legislators in several states expressing the Society's concern over bills that would promote long-term antibiotic therapy in treating Lyme disease, despite medical and scientific evidence indicating that such treatment may do more harm than good. A Connecticut bill would prohibit state licensing boards from disciplining physicians who prescribe such treatment. Bills in New York, Vermont, and West Virginia would mandate insurance coverage of such treatments. Long-term antibiotic therapy is not medically indicated for Lyme disease, and it can lead to potentially fatal infections of the bloodstream, as a result of intravenous administration. It can also promote the development of drug resistance among other microorganisms.
Other advocacy efforts include:
IDSA opposed an Indiana bill (House bill 1567) that would ban the administration of influenza vaccines containing thimerosal in pregnant women and young children. The Society addressed its concerns in a letter to the Indiana House of Representatives Committee of Public Health asserting that the bill is based on flawed pseudoscience linking thimerosal in vaccines to adverse effects on children. A Feb. 12 ruling by the Special Masters of the U.S. Court of Federal Claims reaffirmed that thimerosal-containing vaccines were not causal factors in the development of autism or autism spectrum disorders.
IDSA sent comments to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in support of a gain-sharing exception that would allow infection control practitioners to share in the savings they help generate in hospitals, therefore incentivizing infection control strategies.
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Has anyone taken this?
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Does it cost money to take it? If not, I'll do the course. Posts: 7545 | From The 5th Dimension - The Twilight Zone | Registered: Mar 2008
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seekhelp, it should say one way or other on the link itself
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The course has been on the site for a few weeks. It is free.
Very smart way to spread their Guidelines as gospel. Nurses like myself are always looking for free CME courses to get 30 credits over the two years which are now required.
If you were not aware of the Lyme controversy, you would never know it by taking the course.
Interesting that there is a part in one of the case studies that blames the delay of a discovery of a tumor on an initial diagnosis of Lyme Disease.
Nice that they threw that in there! What a shocker!
I did write back pointing out the shady points. No reply back though.
Take the course if you'd like.
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I just took it and posted my thoughts on the other thread on this topic, "checking to see if anything new..."
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quote:Originally posted by turtle 1653:
Interesting that there is a part in one of the case studies that blames the delay of a discovery of a tumor on an initial diagnosis of Lyme Disease.
People with Lyme disease DO still get things like tumors.
They DISGUST me!
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IMO, This would be a MUCH better alternative for a medical professional wishing USEFUL education on Tick-borne Diseases.
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