USNews and World Report's Interest-Conflicted article on "Lyme Disease"
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Subject: USNews and World Report's Interest-Conflicted article on
"Lyme Disease"
Date: Jun 30, 2008 2:47 PM
USNEWS article, below
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It is a conflict of interest because this is Mortimer Zuckerman's rag,
and Zuckerman
is or was involved with the RICO, www.ALDF.com cabal:
http://www.actionlyme.org/ALDF_BOARD.htm
and there's more on the homepage of ActionLyme.org
I think Zuckerman's does not want his relationships with the likes of
Yale's
Durland Fish investigated, since Fish, Connolly and Wormser started
the cabal
in 1990:
http://www.actionlyme.org/CONNOLLY_FISH_WEINSTEIN.htm
We would like to know how the www.aldf.com acquired their sponsors,
since Zuckerman
was also a candidate for Ambassador to Israel. And of course, I was
informed
that the Mossad was gonna get me, called a NAZI and everything, from
the troll
"Chuck P Adams," who posts from New Haven:
http://www.actionlyme.org/GOLDWATER_LETTER.htm
http://www.actionlyme.org/IP_CHUCK_P_FISH.htm
While Edward McSweegan posts from Crofton, Maryland, where he lives:
http://www.actionlyme.org/IP_CROFTON_MCSWEEGAN.htm
This happens to be criminal behavior known as "anonymous internet
harassment"- a federal crime.
MAY 28, 2000
In addition to Mortimer Zuckerman and the US NEWs
and Daily News,
June 1 - ALDF Gala Benefit
The American Lyme Disease Foundation will hold its
annual benefit Thursday, June 1, 2000 beginning at
6:30 pm at The Pierre Hotel in New York City.
In observance of the 25th anniversary of the discovery
of Lyme disease and the ALDF's tenth anniversary, this
gala dinner dance will honor Allen C. Steere, M.D.,
discoverer of Lyme disease, author and film director
Michael Crichton, and former Governor of Massachusetts
William F. Weld.
Dinner co-chairs will include Evan G. Greenberg,
President and COO of the American International Group,
Emil W. Henry, Jr., Managing Director of Gleacher & Co.
LLC and *** Mortimer B. Zuckerman, Chairman of The
Daily News.***
Join us for a festive and entertaining evening! For
more information and an invitation, please contact David
L. Weld, Executive Director of the ALDF at (914)
277-6970 Ext. 22 or by email at davidlw...@aldf.com.
AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL GROUP:
http://www.aig.com/
American International Group, Inc. (AIG) is the
leading U.S.-based international insurance organisation.
Its member companies write property, casualty, marine, life and
financial...
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I do not think it is appropriate for Zuckerman's rag to be writing
about this
"controversy," since Zuckerman is involved in it, as are the AIG/CFR
Greenbergs.
Kathleen M. Dickson
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New Book on Lyme Disease Takes Controversial Stance
By January W. Payne
Posted June 30, 2008
You get bitten by a tick and then develop a bull's-eye rash—the one
you've
heard can mean Lyme disease. What should you do next? The best bet is
to see a doctor
right away, because a prompt prescription for antibiotics can keep the
infection
from spreading to the nervous system, the heart, and the joints,
according to the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Cover image of 'Beating Lyme'
(Courtesy of Constance A. Bean and AMACOM)
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Nearly 20,000 cases of Lyme disease were reported to the CDC in 2006.
The infection
is transmitted to people through the bite of an infected deer tick
(aka black-legged
tick). Symptoms include fever, fatigue, headache, and a characteristic
rash called
erythema migrans. Doctors diagnose the condition on the basis of those
symptoms
if a patient has potentially been exposed to deer ticks.
Many people get Lyme disease, take a few weeks of antibiotics, and
recover fully,
experts say. But there is also a debate over whether some people, long
after being
bitten by a tick, continue to be affected by a "chronic" form of Lyme
disease. The crux of the issue is whether certain persistent symptoms—
including
pain, fatigue, and other problems—that some people complain of are due
to a lingering
Lyme infection rather than some other cause. People in this camp say
chronic Lyme
symptoms necessitate long-term antibiotic therapy, with pills or IV
meds given for
months or years.
A new book, called Beating Lyme: Understanding and Treating This
Complex and Often
Misdiagnosed Disease, provides insight into the arguments that
supporters of the
chronic Lyme viewpoint make in favor of aggressively treating the
condition. The
book recounts the experiences of those who say they have long-lasting
and at times
debilitating symptoms of the condition years after being bitten by a
tick. The book
just hit store shelves.
Many medical experts, however, don't believe chronic Lyme disease
exists. After
the infection is initially treated with a few weeks of antibiotics,
they maintain,
it clears up, making further antibiotic therapy unnecessary. While
people with chronic
problems after a tick bite may indeed be sick, these doctors say,
their symptoms
are not due to a lingering Lyme infection, and they risk problems
associated with
overuse of antibiotics by continuing such treatment.
An October New England Journal of Medicine article took this
viewpoint, in contrast
to that of the new book. It issued a "critical appraisal" of chronic
Lyme
disease, a term sometimes used interchangeably with "late Lyme
disease."
The "chronic" diagnosis is used, according to the NEJM piece, in North
America and Europe, for people who experience persistent pain,
fatigue, and neurocognitive
symptoms, with or without prior evidence of Lyme disease. The
article's authors
question the use of the term "chronic Lyme" to explain these patients'
symptoms—and they say long-term antibiotic therapy isn't the answer to
treating
these patients. Instead, the goal should be to provide support and
management of
pain, fatigue, or other symptoms, the authors write, and doctors
should explain
to patients that no antibiotic can cure lingering symptoms.
Henry M. Feder Jr., the lead author of the NEJM piece, says that he
believes some
patients still feel ill long after initial treatment for Lyme, but
research shows
that using antibiotics to treat them long term doesn't work. "It does
seem
that after Lyme, some people seem to have some lingering complaints,"
Feder
says. Supporters of the chronic Lyme diagnosis argue that such
symptoms are due
to persistent infections, but Feder says that there have been studies
done "where
they've treated these patients [with antibiotics], and treatment
showed no difference.
Further antibiotic therapy didn't help."
Still, some patients, like Beating Lyme's coauthor Constance A. Bean,
say that
antibiotics—which she took on and off for about 12 years after a 1993
tick bite—made
all the difference. "I improved on antibiotics," Bean says. "I stopped
having to go to the hospital.... People have to do what works for
them."
The best way to avoid Lyme disease altogether is to avoid tick bites.
Here are three
tips on preventing infection.
the 3rd Man
>
> It is a conflict of interest because this is Mortimer Zuckerman's rag,
A WHAT? A 'conflict of interest'?
LOL. Ever hear of the 1st Amendment? You sure "bias" isn't the word
you're looking for, there, intrepid crimebuster?
I think it is a 'conflict of interest' for you to discussing
psychiatry all the time...since you are such an obvious wingnut
whackjob.
Rita and Pam write books...you burn them.
Mort Zuckerman
Like usual, you have nothing to add.
Like usual, you fail to see how ridiculous that makes you appear.
You're a very, predictable foul thing, like an alimentary, um,
exercise.
http://www.actionlyme.org
the 3rd Man
Well, what on EARTH is your problem (obsession) with Zuckerman?
What in the hell does he have to do with anything (other than he's
Jewish, I guess...and you've made it abundantly, nauseatingly clear
how you feel about that)...and he was going to attend an ALDF thing
once?
What's the problem?
(He asks, foolishly...knowing, at the same time, that he should
probably not)...
Mort Zuckerman
I guess you didn't read it or else didn't understand
the post.
You should read the part about lawyers being stupid
and that if there was a pre-natal test for lying-lawyerness
it should be available - according to Dr. Watson - to
mothers who would choose an abortion, since
what's the point of bringing evil cowards like yourself
into the world?
the 3rd Man
> On Jun 30, 6:35 pm, the 3rd Man <derdrittemann2...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> I guess you didn't read it or else didn't understand
> the post.
True.
Both.