It's about
time in my personal opinion!!
This is from
www.lymedisease.org/news/lymepolicywonk/898.html"On January 17, 2012, Congressmen Smith, Wolf, and Gibson called on the National Guidelines Clearinghouse (NGC) to remove the IDSA’s outdated Lyme (treatment) guidelines."
These guidelines were established back in 2006 and the NGC is supposed to update these guidelines every 5 years! They have refused so far to update these guidelines though. Why is this important to us? Well, in their words -
"The IDSA guidelines result in patients being denied necessary care. They are used by insurers to deny patients reimbursement for care and by the IDSA as a club to drive out its competitors in unprofessional conduct actions."
For more information on this issue, please follow the link above. Maybe we should all be writing to our Congressmen/women for their support on this as well!