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...know how to diagnose Lyme disease, they refuse even to consider it a possible cause of severe illness among their patients. As a result, Lyme has become one of the most seriously underdiagnosed diseases in this country. Lyme victims have gone undiagnosed and untreated for years, leading to chronic, debilitating and sometimes deadly consequences. What is needed is much better information about this very serious disease. RENEE THALER Northbrook...
...make things worse, the Russian media have been pointing fingers at him as the cause of some of the accidents, and one of his bosses has labeled him a chronic complainer. Tsibliyev was guiding the cargo ship on June 25, when it bashed into the station's Spektr module, and some Russian commentators say he may have created the problem by entering the wrong numbers into a computer. At one point last week, ABC News reported that it was Tsibliyev who yanked the wrong plug and cut off the station's power. Mir flight director Vladimir Solovyov would...
...debate gets downright vicious when the subject turns to "chronic Lyme disease," a catch-all term that means different things to different people. Some patient advocates and their medical allies believe the Lyme spirochete tends to persist in the body even after standard antibiotic treatment. This camp generally favors intravenous antibiotic therapy to treat chronic Lyme. On the other hand, some academic researchers and their allies argue that people with chronic Lyme fall into one of two categories: they either have hypersensitive immune systems that have overreacted to an earlier, no longer viable, Lyme infection--in which case antibiotics...
...heart. Clearly, intravenous antibiotics should not be withheld from people who truly need them. Who truly needs them is, of course, what's in dispute. The NIH is funding a $4.5 million study in an effort to sort out both the best definitions and the best treatments for chronic Lyme disease...
...contemplating enlisting the help of Dr. Jack Kevorkian, but I feel sympathy for the plight of terminally ill patients. I believe in freedom of choice for individuals, including those who wish to end their chronic suffering. What these people want is death with dignity. They seek a willing, understanding partner, be it Dr. Kevorkian or another like him, to give them moral support when, after all else has failed, they end their suffering. I salute all the doctors brave enough to challenge the law in order to assist those who seek their help. HERMINIA GASKIN New York City...