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Lyme Disease Association, Inc.
(LDA)
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SENATE HEARING THIS THURSDAY!!
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Senator Richard Blumenthal (CT) is hosting a U.S. Senate field hearing on the federal response to Lyme disease.
Thursday, August 30, 2012 - 10:00am
GenRe Auditorium
UCONN Stamford
One University Place
Stamford, CT 06901
http://www.stamford.uconn.edu/maps.htm
Witness Panel One: The Honorable Kirsten Gillbrand, United States Senator for New York
Witness Panel Two: Mark Hopwood, Patient, Trumbull, CT; Dwight Harris, Patient, Burlington, CT; Katy Reid, Patient, Ridgefield, CT
Witness Panel Three: Dr. Kirby Stafford, PhD, Connecticut Agricultural Station; Dr. Amiram Katz, MD, Yale University; Dr. Ramin Ahmadi, MD, Danbury Hospital
The public is invited - Limited seating available
Lyme Disease Association met in Senator Blumenthal's Washington Office to discuss congressional issues surrounding Lyme and other tick-bornes diseases, including a possible Senate Hearing.
(L to R): Richard Smith, LDA volunteer; Lorraine Johnson, CEO, lymedisease.org; Senator Richard Blumenthal (CT); Pat Smith, President, Lyme Disease Association; NY patient volunteer. Not pictured but teleconferenced into the meeting were Diane Blanchard and Debbie Siciliano, Co-Presidents, Lyme Research Alliance.
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LDA/Columbia Conference
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Early Registration Discount ENDS 9/7 - Sign Up today!
 | | Bb (Lyme spirochete) expressing green flourescence protein in tissue of a mouse Thanks: Stephen W. Barthold, DVM, PhD |
Click Here To Register or For More Information
Sept. 29 & 30, 2012 (Sat & Sun) Philadelphia, PA
This conference features leading scientists and clinicians from the United States and Europe. A particular focus of the meeting is to examine the evidence and implications of recent animal studies that demonstrate persistence of the Lyme spirochete despite antibiotic therapy. Other topics to be addressed include diagnostics, clinical treatment, unusual neurologic presentations, mechanisms of disease, animal models of chronic Lyme inflammation, nutrition, genetic variants, immunologic findings, vaccines, long-term follow-up studies, blood-brain barrier integrity, neuropsychiatric aspects, and national trends in tick-borne diseases.
13th Annual Lyme & Other Tick-Borne Diseases: Microbial Persistence & Tick-Borne Diseases - New Scientific & Clinical Directions.
This conference is designed for medical and health professionals. The conference is also open for the general public to register. Adults only.
13.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)TM offered by Columbia University to CME (continuing medical education) registrants.
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Investigative Journalism Series on Lyme
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Mary Beth Pfeiffer, Investigative Reporter (left) from the Poughkeepsie Journal (NY) recently published an in-depth investigative series about the Lyme disease controversy which focuses on problems of surveillance, patients and treating physicians.
http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2012308190050
or go to the LDA website page listing the various articles and ways to contact the journalist.
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Property Prevention: Tricks to Stop Ticks
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 Check out LDA's latest prevention update. Ticks are most likely to be in woods, where woods meet lawn, where lawn meets fields, tall brush/grass, under leaves, under ground cover (low growing vegetation), near stone walls or wood piles, shady areas, around bird feeders, outside pet areas. What you can do to lower your/your pet's exposure to ticks on your property - click here for Tricks to Stop Ticks
LDA's Prevention Printables
LDA's Printable Handouts
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The LDA is an all-volunteer national nonprofit, 501 (c) (3), (has never had employees), dedicated to Lyme disease education, prevention, raising monies for research, and patient support. It has been accepted into the 2012 Combined Federal Campaign (CFC) which recognizes it as an approved charity for federal workplace giving. It is also a Guidestar.org exchange member, recognized for its transparency in operations. LDA is an Environmental Protection Agency PESP Partner and offers LymeAid 4 Kids program for children without insurance coverage.
LDA-funded research has been acknowledged in 25 peer review journals to date, and LDA is presenting its 13th Lyme &Tick-Borne Diseases scientific conference jointly sponsored by Columbia University in Philadelphia in 2012. The faculty are comprised of national and international researchers in the field of tick-borne diseases and attendees can receive Continued Medical Education (CME) credits. LDA is associated with 45 Lyme organizations nationwide a loose network called LDAnet, with LDA as the umbrella organization. They are working together to make a difference for Lyme patients. In 2012, LDA developed an electronic billboard ad featured in Times Square, promoting the awareness of chronic Lyme disease throughout the world. The LDA was invited to testify before the Foreign Affairs Committee, Africa Global Health and Human Rights Subcommittee in Washington, DC in 2012 (click here to view & read testimonies).
For information on Lyme disease www.LymeDiseaseAssociation.org
PO Box 1438
Jackson, NJ 08527
888-366-6611
Click Here To Donate
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