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Debate Over Lyme Disease Polarizes Some In Health-Care Field

duelDebate Over Lyme Disease Polarizes Some In Health-Care Field

The Alliance for Natural Health USA is a non-for-profit organization that describes itself as part of an international organization “dedicated to promoting sustainable health and freedom of choice in healthcare through good science and good law.” The group contends that despite well-documented studies, “many physicians continue to deny the existence of CLD (chronic Lyme disease), which can hinder efforts to find a solution – and without consensus from mainstream Western medicine, insurance companies will rarely provide treatment, and disability coverage is routinely denied.” The situation has created a political battle between two polarized medical camps. Read more.

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