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Attorney General forces Infectious Diseases Society of America to redo Lyme guidelines due to flawed development process
Journal of Medical Ethics, 05/27/09

Stricker RB et al. - Lyme disease is one of the most controversial illnesses in the history of medicine. In 2006 the Connecticut Attorney General launched an antitrust investigation into the Lyme guidelines development process of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA). The first is the growing problem of conflicts of interest among guidelines developers, and the second is the increasing centralisation of medical decisions by insurance companies, which use treatment guidelines as a means of controlling the practices of individual doctors and denying treatment for patients.

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