Limits on antibiotics for Lyme disease leave doctors in Limbo

Limits on antibiotics for Lyme disease leave doctors in Limbo

As many as one-third of patients with Lyme disease are ill on long-term follow-up. A population-based, retrospective cohort study in Massachusetts found 34% of patients suffered from arthritis or recurrent arthralgias, neurocognitive impairment, and neuropathy or myelopathy, an average of 6 years after treatment for Lyme disease. [1] Meanwhile, 62% of a cohort of 215 consecutively treated Lyme disease patients in […]

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