LD Study Leader: I Ask Who’s the Director?

N.Y. Medical College clinic leads in Lyme disease study, treatment

VALHALLA — Dr. Aaron Schwartz doesn’t want to take any chances with his recent diagnosis of babesiosis, a potentially fatal tick-borne infection. So the retired surgeon went to the Lyme Disease Diagnostic Center at New York Medical College, a clinic where people can walk in without an appointment and see top tick-borne-disease specialists. Though a previous doctor had properly diagnosed Schwartz, the clinic’s Dr. Robert Nadelman adjusted his drug regimen. And he warned Schwartz he can get a tick-borne disease again. “You need to take precautions so you don’t get bit again and again,” he told Schwartz during his visit Wednesday. Read more.

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“Ignoring previous studies & patients reports of getting LD in under 24 hrs., IDSA’s Wormser now claims if tick isn’t attached 36 hrs, “patients don’t need antibiotics.” He also still recommends the dangerous, controversial 1-dose-doxycycline treatment proven ineffective in majority of mice. See slide 15:” ~ Georgia Lyme Disease Association

“Misinformation alert: ‘The clinic’s medical entomologist can tell what kind of tick it is, and how long it’s been on the person. If it’s a deer tick that was attached for less than 36 hours, patients don’t need antibiotics, Wormser said.’” ~ California Lyme Disease Association