RE: IDSA Violated Voting Requirements of AG Settlement Agreement

[Guest guest]

What is the IDSA?

On Feb 4, 2010, at 11:36 AM, wrote:

>

>

> -----Original Message-----

> IDSA Violated Voting Requirements of AG

> Settlement Agreement

>

> IDSA Violated Voting Requirements of AG Settlement Agreement

>

> February 3, 2010

> From The Lyme Disease Association and The California Lyme Disease

> Association

>

> During an antitrust investigation of the IDSA guidelines development

> process for the 2006 Lyme disease treatment guidelines, AG

> Blumenthal's

> office uncovered significant procedural deficiencies, including

> conflicts of interests of the panel members. A settlement was reached

> and the IDSA is breaching it.

>

> The IDSA is manipulating the voting process to favor NO change in the

> guidelines. The AG has sent the IDSA a letter requesting that they

> redo

> the vote in compliance with the agreement.

>

> Action Needed - If You Live in CT

>

> If you live in CT, please email and thank Blumenthal for

> investigating the IDSA and for enforcing the settlement agreement. Our

> health is at risk and we thank him for trying to protect it. Your

> letter might read: " I want to thank you for investigating the IDSA and

> for enforcing the settlement agreement. Patients with Lyme rely on

> your

> broad-shoulders! " Your subject line should read: " IDSA Lyme Disease

> Guidelines. "

>

> Contact CT Attorney General Blumenthal.

> attorney.general@...

>

> Action Needed - If You Live Outside CT

>

> If you live outside of CT, call your own state Attorney General (AG).

> Let your state AG's office know that the IDSA is trying to go

> around the

> rules set in AG Blumenthal's settlement agreement.

>

> For contact information on your Attorney General, click on your

> state on

> the left hand menu in the link below.

>

> http://www.naag.org/current-attorneys-general.php

>

> Ask your AG's office to show public support for AG Blumenthal's

> enforcement of the Settlement Agreement. The IDSA is a powerful group

> that mainstream medicine looks to for recommendations. Let your AG

> know

> that this agreement developed by the CT AG is important to your

> health.

>

> Sample Phone Blurb

>

> I am calling today because an injustice is being done to Lyme patients

> throughout the country, and you are in a position to rectify this

> wrong. The IDSA was found to have conflicts of interest with its 2006

> Lyme disease guidelines. Now we find that the IDSA is manipulating the

> voting process to favor no change in the guidelines in violation of

> the

> antitrust Settlement Agreement.

>

> The AG has sent the IDSA a letter requesting that IDSA redo the

> vote in

> compliance with the agreement. Please show your public support for

> enforcement of the antitrust settlement agreement and contact CT AG

> Blumenthal to help keep the IDSA honest and non-biased in

> their

> pursuit of Lyme disease guidelines.

>

> For more information and to download a pdf to send to your Attorney

> General's office, please visit:

> http://www.lymedisease.org/news/files.php?

> file=Blog_attachment_IDSA_67292899

> 1.pdf

> or http://tinyurl.com/ybgec3g

>

> Our health is at risk and the IDSA is playing games with it!

>

> This message from:

>

> Lyme Disease Association, Inc.

> http://www.lymedisease.org/

>

> California Lyme disease Association, Inc.

> http://www.lymedisease.org/

>

>

[Guest guest]

They are a medical group that has setup the guidelines that have become the

defacto standards of treatment for Lyme Disease. Because of these

" guidelines " most doctors will not treat patients with Chronic Lyme. It's a

horrible situation.

IF you can get the movie Under Our Skin and watch it.

www.lyme-resource.com

You can lead a person to a fact, but you can't make them think! -

Re: [ ] IDSA Violated Voting Requirements of AG

Settlement Agreement

What is the IDSA?

On Feb 4, 2010, at 11:36 AM, wrote:

>

>

> -----Original Message-----

> IDSA Violated Voting Requirements of AG Settlement Agreement

>

> IDSA Violated Voting Requirements of AG Settlement Agreement

>

> February 3, 2010

> From The Lyme Disease Association and The California Lyme Disease

> Association

>

> During an antitrust investigation of the IDSA guidelines development

> process for the 2006 Lyme disease treatment guidelines, AG

> Blumenthal's office uncovered significant procedural deficiencies,

> including conflicts of interests of the panel members. A settlement

> was reached and the IDSA is breaching it.

>

> The IDSA is manipulating the voting process to favor NO change in the

> guidelines. The AG has sent the IDSA a letter requesting that they

> redo the vote in compliance with the agreement.

>

> Action Needed - If You Live in CT

>

> If you live in CT, please email and thank Blumenthal for

> investigating the IDSA and for enforcing the settlement agreement. Our

> health is at risk and we thank him for trying to protect it. Your

> letter might read: " I want to thank you for investigating the IDSA and

> for enforcing the settlement agreement. Patients with Lyme rely on

> your broad-shoulders! " Your subject line should read: " IDSA Lyme

> Disease Guidelines. "

>

> Contact CT Attorney General Blumenthal.

> attorney.general@...

>

> Action Needed - If You Live Outside CT

>

> If you live outside of CT, call your own state Attorney General (AG).

> Let your state AG's office know that the IDSA is trying to go around

> the rules set in AG Blumenthal's settlement agreement.

>

> For contact information on your Attorney General, click on your state

> on the left hand menu in the link below.

>

> http://www.naag.org/current-attorneys-general.php

>

> Ask your AG's office to show public support for AG Blumenthal's

> enforcement of the Settlement Agreement. The IDSA is a powerful group

> that mainstream medicine looks to for recommendations. Let your AG

> know that this agreement developed by the CT AG is important to your

> health.

>

> Sample Phone Blurb

>

> I am calling today because an injustice is being done to Lyme patients

> throughout the country, and you are in a position to rectify this

> wrong. The IDSA was found to have conflicts of interest with its 2006

> Lyme disease guidelines. Now we find that the IDSA is manipulating the

> voting process to favor no change in the guidelines in violation of

> the antitrust Settlement Agreement.

>

> The AG has sent the IDSA a letter requesting that IDSA redo the vote

> in compliance with the agreement. Please show your public support for

> enforcement of the antitrust settlement agreement and contact CT AG

> Blumenthal to help keep the IDSA honest and non-biased in

> their pursuit of Lyme disease guidelines.

>

> For more information and to download a pdf to send to your Attorney

> General's office, please visit:

> http://www.lymedisease.org/news/files.php?

> file=Blog_attachment_IDSA_67292899

> 1.pdf

> or http://tinyurl.com/ybgec3g

>

> Our health is at risk and the IDSA is playing games with it!

>

> This message from:

>

> Lyme Disease Association, Inc.

> http://www.lymedisease.org/

>

> California Lyme disease Association, Inc.

> http://www.lymedisease.org/

>

>