Unproven Lyme disease treatments regularly offered in US, new data show
University of Minnesota http://twin-cities.umn.edu/ 612-625-5000 Recently in Open Forum Infectious Diseases, researchers from the University of Minnesota reported that many non-traditional clinics for Lyme disease exist in states where the tick-borne disease is endemic, and the treatments offered at such clinics are often unproven and costly and raise safety concerns. For the study, the investigators analyzed treatments offered at standalone clinics in 14 states with high Lyme disease prevalence: Connectic