Under general is a post for a conference this month in California on lyme disease with some excellent speakers.

I have contacted some of the local papers and plan on contacting some of the better known papers in San Francisco, Los Angeles, perhaps Las Vegas, the Fresno Bee..help me out here guys.

Please start posting email addresses so we can send requests to have this conference advertised in the Southwest papers.

There is a press release that we can copy and paste onto our email on the post in general.

Thanks. Think of the people you might just be helping NOT go through what you went through.

A friend also copied and hand carried the flyer for the conference to her doctor here in California.

The doctor's comment was that they may get one person with lyme a year but they would try to send someone from their office to the conference.

I think that if they were more educated about lyme they might just find that there are really more of their patients walking around with lyme than they thought.

I or someone else could post the press release here. I tend to need to do things in bits and pieces, resting in between.

November 18, 2004
For Immediate Release

OHM announces its first ever Lyme disease program at its 11th Annual CME Meeting,
February 24-27, 2005, in San Francisco

The Society for Orthomolecular Health-Medicine (``OHM''), the organization founded by Linus Pauling, is featuring a comprehensive, inclusive program on Lyme disease as one-half of its upcoming annual meeting, Feb. 24-27, 2005, in San Francisco. The conference has been approved for 25 CME credits.

The realization is growing that Lyme is not just endemic to areas of high tick concentrations, but is widespread throughout patients all over the country displaying symptoms of chronic degenerative, autoimmune and fatiguing diseases.

However, confusion and controversy surround Lyme more than ever. It remains one of the most difficult illnesses to diagnose and treat, and there are still major differences of opinion over these issues, and even over the origin and nature of the disease itself.

At this program, entitled ``It's About Lyme: Testing, Diagnosis, Protocols--and Controversies,'' experts from major testing laboratories, representing virtually every type of Lyme test, will give individual presentations and participate in panel discussions with Q&A from the audience.

Researchers, including faculty from the schools of medicine at Yale and Columbia, will present their latest findings. And several of the country's leading front-line physicians will share their experiences using both antibiotic and non-pharmaceutically based protocols.

These clinicians will also take part in group panels, providing attendees with a variety of tools to improve Lyme diagnosis and treatment.

Even Lyme specialists will also benefit from the second half of the OHM conference that deals with another epidemic. That is ``Heart Health: the New Paradigm -- Oxidation, Inflammation, Methylation and Coagulation.''

Heart disease is still the leading cause of death in the U.S., claiming over 900,000 lives annually. With the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association recently endorsing aggressive guidelines that would put tens of millions of Americans on cholesterol -- and blood pressure-lowering drugs, cardiovascular disease is no less topical and controversial than Lyme.

Attendees will benefit from interacting with a distinguished faculty of experts to discuss advanced therapies that treat the real physiological risk factors for CVD.

Conference brochure and registration form are available online at www.orthomed.org.

SOCIETY FOR ORTHOMOLECULAR HEALTH-MEDICINE
2698 Pacific Ave., San Francisco, CA 94115-1128
Tel: 415-922-6242 Fax: 415-346-2519
E-mail: [email protected]

The email address is [email protected]

Could someone please copy and paste the press release and get it to a paper in California?

Not that doctors/medical personnel in California need to know about lyme disease. Especially since we don't have any lyme in California or if we do it only takes a few weeks of abx to treat.

The above web site is one web site that lists the names of papers in California.

Kam, a bunch of CA Lymies are going, so I am sure you will get feedback. We didn't get a discount, but I used my status as "retired" to get the lowest rate.

But what good is it going to do for all of us patients to be well educated, but no doctors? My osteopath is going, as she has been learning by watching how I respond to treatment with my LLMD.

The support people in my LLMD's office are going, as some are new, and still learning about Lyme. So that will improve an office that already knows a lot.

But I sure hope some other professionals are going to be there!

Let's hope they inspire each other and thereby, even if ever so slowly, start to turn another page in the book of Lyme.

Take care.

So if plan to go, go to Radioshack - they have a little Optimus recorder for about $29. for standard tapes. It records great and you can listen to all at any time later again. Make sure you have plenty of tapes with you, so that you don't have to run around the hotel, etc. They also cost more there. Mark your tapes. I literally have a library of seminars - I save the important stuff and have learned a lot over the years.

I'm really looking forward to seeing your doctor and Dr. S of San Francisco on the same panel. If they are willing to discuss, could be quite enlightening for all. As you say, let's hope they inspire each other.

I've got my voice recorder all set to go. I know there is no way I will get enough notes taken to be able to remember what was said. They always seem like they make sense when I am taking them, but reading back through is another story.