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NOTE: It's pretty interesting that it was the Hartford Courant that displayed gross bias! And reassuring that the Lyme Cabal doesn't control every media source out there...:
Dear Editor,
I would like to point out the vastly different bent your paper took from many other media sources out there this week on the subject of the latest research paper showing the positive effects of longer-term antibiotics.
Your staff writer William Hathaway simply got it wrong, and sadly on such an important
subject. This is a perfect example of the power journalists have to misrepresent critical information.
Here is your own papers title and intro paragraph:
Hartford Courant:
``New Study Focuses On Patients Not Aided By Antibiotic Therapy
By WILLIAM HATHAWAY Courant Staff Writer October 11, 2007
Advocates for Lyme disease patients have long argued that extended antibiotic therapy is necessary to treat lingering and often debilitating effects of the disease, but another study has cast serious doubts about whether the treatment should be recommended.''
HERE ARE 3 OTHER NEWS SOURCES COVERAGE ON THE EXACT SAME STUDY:
IV antibiotics help Lyme disease cognition
ImediNews, Georgia - 14 hours ago Patients with chronic Lyme disease report cognitive impairment, pain, physical dysfunction and fatigue -- after the standard course of antibiotic treatment ...
The debate over whether chronic Lyme disease exists -- and whether long-term antibiotics helps treat it -- shifted again Wednesday when a long-term study published by a Columbia University researcher showed that intravenous antibiotic therapy does help patients, at least over the short term. The study, written by Dr. Brian Fallon, director of Columbia University's Lyme and Tick Borne Diseases Research Center, was published Wednesday by the medical journal Neurology. It showed that after 10 weeks of IV antibiotics, patients improved in regaining lost memory and cognitive abilities. They also had relief from pain and chronic fatigue and had improved physical movements.
Cognitive Impairment Due To Chronic Lyme Disease Can Be Treated
Science Daily -- Findings from the first placebo-controlled study of chronic cognitive impairment after treated Lyme disease (also known as chronic Lyme encephalopathy) demonstrate that patients report moderate cognitive impairment, physical dysfunction comparable to patients with congestive heart failure, and fatigue comparable to patients with multiple sclerosis. In the study, repeated intravenous (IV) antibiotic therapy was shown to be effective in treating cognitive dysfunction and the debilitating pain, fatigue and physical dysfunction associated with this disease.
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anneke, thx for taking the time to write; good post/////1
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Great response.
Hugs,
Geneal
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