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Federal Appellate Court Affirms Dismissal Of Lawsuit Against IDSA Regarding Its Guidelines For Treating Lyme Disease

January 27, 2024

A professional society specializing in the study and treatment of infectious diseases published guidelines in a peer-reviewed medical journal for treating Lyme disease. Individuals who claim to suffer from persistent Lyme disease symptoms sued the society, alleging the guidelines harmed them by cast[...]

$792,000 Baltimore Medical Malpractice Verdict For Failure To Timely Diagnose Lyme Disease

February 1, 2023

$792000 Baltimore Medical Malpractice Verdict: Following a two-week trial before a Baltimore medical malpractice jury, and after two hours of deliberations, the jury returned its verdict in the amount of $792,000 in favor of a 32-year-old African American man who suffered serious complications from [...]

Lyme Disease And Tick Bites

August 15, 2019

The CDC has published “TICKBORNE DISEASES OF THE UNITED STATES A Reference Manual for Healthcare Providers Fifth Edition, 2018” that provides the following advice: TICK BITES/PREVENTION Ticks are generally found near the ground, in brushy or wooded areas. They can’t jump or fly. Instea[...]

Pennsylvania Supreme Court Applies Discovery Rule In Reinstating Failure To Diagnose Lyme Disease Case

October 20, 2018

The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania Middle District (“Pennsylvania Supreme Court”) held in its opinion filed on October 17, 2018, “we respectfully find that the Superior Court erred by concluding, as a matter of law, that Plaintiffs knew or should have known sometime between July and[...]

Does Chronic Lyme Disease Exist?

April 22, 2016

One of the most common medical malpractice inquiries we receive are from people throughout the United States who are suffering chronic and often debilitating symptoms that they firmly believe are due to the unnecessary and negligent delay in diagnosing their Lyme disease and/or the undue delay or fa[...]

Post-Treatment Lyme Disease Syndrome (Chronic Lyme Disease)

September 3, 2014

We often receive calls and inquiries from people throughout the United States who have chronic Lyme disease (properly called post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome) who claim that their healthcare providers failed to timely and properly diagnose their Lyme disease and/or misdiagnosed their Lyme di[...]

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