Midday on Health: Lyme Disease 07/01/13




WYPR: Midday with Dan Rodricks Podcast show

Summary: Three specialists in infectious diseases discuss the diagnosis and treatment of the tick-born illness, as cases of Lyme disease increase and some of its victims continue to claim mainstream medicine ignores their long-term ailments. Our guests: Dr. John Cmar, Midday contributor and a specialist in infectious diseases; Philip Baker, executive director of the American Lyme Disease Foundation and former research scientist for the National Institutes of Health; and Dr. Paul Auwaerter, clinical director of the division of infectious diseases at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.