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Excert from Coping with Lyme disease.
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Dr. Daniel Cameron, an internist and Lyme
researcher in Mount Kisco, New York, is accoustomed to being
on the firing line. A former academic researcher who headed
the National Task Force on Aging, Cameron the clinician, who
has published and presented more than thirty scientific papers
and serves on the boards of the International Lyme and Associated
Diseases Society and the Lyme Disease Association, has a reputation
for meticulously challanging researchers at national and international
conferences who present papers and theories unsupported by
the lates liteature. His position represent a growing third
"camp" in the Lyme disease medical arena. More
"I base treatment on the literature, not the position of my
peers. For this reason, I find I am in the middle group regarding
treatment, not diagnosis. I make a diagnosis on clinical grounds.
There are many diseases in medicine in medicine which we treat
even though there may be a low probability that the patient
has them, but we do it because, if untreated, they will progress
to something much more serious. I feel Lyme disease falls
into this category."
Cameron is not sitting back on his heels, simply waiting for
the literature to evolve. He established the Lyme Project
in 1997 to amass a national Lyme Surveillance Database and
has conducted a series of clinical trials on various aspects
of Lyme. Currently, he is conducting the Re-treatment Study,
a double-blind clinical trial designed to compare the efficacy
of using amoxicillin, as compared to other drugs, in re-treating
Lyme patients who are expereinceing problems after having
been successfully treated for Lyme at least once before. Anyone
interested in finding out more about Dr. Cameron's Re-treatment
Study or his other projects can contact his office or visit
his website: Cameron@LymeProject.com
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