Why so many Lyme disease patients slip through the cracks in our health-care system — and how we can prevent it
Physicians need to do more follow-up with early Lyme disease patients to determine if they require more treatment, because more than one in five of them report ongoing symptoms months after their initial course of antibiotics, an American study suggests. And even more concerning, in two thirds of the cases studied in which Lyme sufferers needed more care, they never got another appointment…
