After a relative contracted Lyme disease an dhad difficulty getting treatment, Kerry White has decided to run the “Run to the beat” half-marathon around Greenwich Park in London on Sunday 8th September to raise money for us. This wil be a great achievement, so please support Kerry.
more...As announced at the LDA conference in Guildford last month, LDA had a meeting scheduled at PHE Porton. The meeting was with Dr Tim Brooks, who runs the specialist Lyme disease testing laboratory and also Dr Matthew Dryden who will be running the national Lyme disease referral clinic in Winchester, starting in November. A group [...]
more...Copies of the presentations from the 2013 LDA conference are available to download. This is not quite the same as being there – especially as a good part of the afternoon was given over to workshops with question and answer sessions. The 106 delegates (including 26 health and research professionals) all contributed to a very successful conference. The [...]
more...After six weeks of walking, Ross Carter has made it to Basle in Switzerland after a long blistering walk across the Alsace valley. Many thanks to everyone who has sponsored Ross so far. Read more details of his trip here.
more...Our epic walker, Ross, from Halifax, is nearing the end of his long walk from Zeebrugge to Switzerland. He has made great progress despite suffering bad weather and foot problems. His last update saw him in Thann, near Mulhouse, having traversed the Vosges mountains. Read more about his progress here, and please support his fantastic [...]
more...A new clinic for Lyme disease patients will start from September in the Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester. The clinic will be run by Dr Matthew Dryden who has long had an interest in Lyme disease and has treated more than 500 patients over 20+ years. We hope that this will provide an opportunity for the national referral of [...]
more...Public Health England has issued an awareness leaflet for GPs: “Lyme disease, ticks and your patient’s health“. This is brief but has some useful features which can be drawn to the notice of GPs who may know very little about Lyme disease. The leaflet highlights: Many patients do not recall a bite or find a tick [...]
more...LDA exhibited at the Primary Care conference which is held at the NEC each year. This was our second stand at this exhibition and is an element of the charity’s strategy to reach out to health professionals and provide them with good quality information on Lyme disease. It also gives LDA the opportunity of finding out the [...]
more...LDA has produced a new leaflet on Lyme neuroborreliosis, based on currently available research papers. Aimed principally at health professionals, this addresses the symptoms, diagnosis and treatment of Lyme neuroborreliosis: Lyme disease affecting the peripheral and central nervous system. Differences in the presentation in children and elderly patients are discussed as are the range of tests which [...]
more...The BBC ran a well researched article following the UK demonstration in London for the Worldwide Lyme Disease Protest. This was picked up very quickly across the country and resulted in a surge of enquiries to LDA’s patient help email service. These included emails from patients who had seen the EM rash on themselves some years [...]
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