IDSA Violated Voting Requirements of AG Settlement Agreement

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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/