AG vs. IDSA – The Battle Continues
Excerpted from CTPost.COM ( Posted: 05/14/2010 )
“We are carefully and comprehensively assessing the final report and the review process leading to that report to determine whether the IDSA fulfilled the requirements of our settlement,” Blumenthal said in a statement Wednesday.
A local Lyme disease advocacy group is calling for Connecticut’s attorney general to continue the fight to alter controversial treatment guidelines.
Greenwich-based Time for Lyme is circulating a petition urging Attorney General Richard Blumenthal to look into the recent decision by a special panel, formed as part of an antitrust investigation, to allow the guidelines to remain unchanged.
The eight-member review panel issued its report three weeks ago, unanimously agreeing to uphold the disease treatment guidelines developed in 2006 by the Arlington, Va.-based Infectious Diseases Society of America.
For the full article: http://www.ctpost.com/local/article/Lyme-advocates-look-for-action-from-AG-after-487506.php
