The second live HiblioTV broadcast about ticks and Lyme disease can be watched on YouTube. This took the form of a live, unscripted conversation between Hiblio’s Paul Norrish and LDA’s medical director Dr Sandra Pearson. This is a 20 minute conversation in the trusted Hiblio format – an interviewer and an expert. The Hiblio team […]
more...The 7 volunteers who are Lyme Disease Action (LDA) have changed the way the Department of Health and Public Health England view Lyme disease. Four years ago Lyme disease was considered easy to diagnose and easy to treat and the charity was considered to be making an unnecessary, unscientific fuss. Now the uncertainties in diagnosis […]
more...The first request for professional members for the NICE Lyme disease clinical guideline seems to have failed to recruit enough people. A new call has been issued for roles that were not successfully filled by the first round of interviews. 1 x adult general physician 1 x adult neurologist 2 x paediatricians (general paediatrician and […]
more...The warming weather is bringing the ticks out, and it’s not just pets that are at risk! Ticks are blood sucking members of the spider family and the stage that attaches to humans is very small – about the size of a poppy seed. Easy to miss clinging on behind your knee! Ticks can be […]
more...Interviews for the NICE guideline committee took place this week. From LDA one person applied for a lay member position and one for a professional position but we have no idea of the outcome and we have very limited information on other people who applied. Short-listed candidates will now have references followed up, there will […]
more...LDA is delighted to be invited back to talk to hiblio about ticks, tick-bites and prevention of tick-borne diseases. This is scheduled to be live-streamed from Torbay Hospital at 2.00pm on Wednesday 22nd June 2016. Paul Norrish, Founder and Digital Manager of hiblio will be talking with Dr Sandra Pearson, medical director of Lyme Disease […]
more...The Pharmaceutical Journal, a weekly publication for pharmacists and pharmaceutical scientists has published an article – Treating Lyme disease: when will science catch up? Pharmacists are important healthcare providers and will often help in identifying possible Lyme disease rashes in particular, so this publicity in the journal is very welcome. We hope it may send […]
more...Applications have opened for the members of the committee which will draw up the NICE guideline for Lyme disease. This committee will have specialist members (ie health professionals) and also lay members (patients and carers). LDA is sending details to health professionals whom it knows have some experience of, and interest in, Lyme borreliosis. If […]
more...The draft scope for this guideline has now been issued for consultation. Some changes have been made following the scoping workshop, and the official workshop notes can now be viewed on the NICE website, so you can see the variety of the discussions. LDA will be submitting a written response because there are a fair number […]
more...See our main NICE Guideline page for information and links. Stakeholders from industry, the public, professions and NHS joined the scoping workshop held on Tuesday 23 February in London: 8 people with a patient & public view: 2 from Lyme Disease UK, 2 from Lyme Research UK, 1 from Facial Palsy UK and 2 from […]
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