This happened numerous times in #lyme - parents accused of abuse or Munchausens. Also used against mothers in divorce cases.
07.10.2025 03:43 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0@adamswendya.bsky.social
Scientific/Medical Innovation Formerly Research Grant Director, Bay Area Lyme Foundation
This happened numerous times in #lyme - parents accused of abuse or Munchausens. Also used against mothers in divorce cases.
07.10.2025 03:43 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0How you know youโve just been at a #borrelia conference #iclb17 @jutraslab.bsky.social
11.09.2025 18:56 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 110d doxy failure leads to #lyme carditis presenting as sudden cardiac arrest - if pt had been treated with longer course would he have experienced sometimes fatal carditis? Not always AV block. @Drlipid @JohnsHopkinsSPH pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
11.09.2025 18:15 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0My husband was bitten there! 10 minute walk and BAM
10.07.2025 22:12 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0This has helped my family member - so glad it will be studied in a clinical trial!
15.05.2025 17:28 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0ER suspected Lyme enough to test - which means with shortness of breath they should have immediately treated for carditis instead of waiting for results. Instead, patient died.
26.04.2025 04:41 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Some news: this was my last week at @bayarealyme as Research Grant Director. Building BAL and serving patients has been a profound personal and professional honor. I will be working with a private foundation but will stay involved with the community, BAL & @lymebiobank.bsky.social
18.04.2025 20:04 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Read this thread, but especially this one - โyou have no right to erase an illness simply b/c you find its existence to be politically inconvenientโ (Iโll add scientifically inconvenient as well, as in, it invalidates your body of researchโฆ.)
20.02.2025 22:21 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Reminder: @bayarealyme.bsky.social Emerging Leader Award ($150K grant) application is due March 7, 2025. For info and application:
www.bayarealyme.org/our-research...
#IACC/#IACI RFA (including #lyme) from NIH, due dates in Feb, June and October! grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
22.01.2025 15:53 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I was a Phase 3 judge in @CohenGiveโs $10+ million #LymeXDiagnosticsPrize, please join me in congratulating our winners: www.lymexdiagnosticsprize.com/announcing-t...
16.01.2025 19:05 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Ugh, so sorry Meghan!
16.01.2025 01:05 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0But they transmit rickettsial infections - several cases in our area from PAC coast tick last year.
07.01.2025 07:11 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0@lymebiobank.bsky.social has provided samples to >100 projects. We also have post mortem/surgical samples for research, get in touch with Liz Horn (info@lymebiobank.org) for info
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