Archive for April, 2021

Columbia Establishes Treatment Center, Clinical Trials Network for Lyme Disease

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-03/cuim-cet033021.php

Columbia establishes treatment center, clinical trials network for Lyme disease

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IRVING MEDICAL CENTER

Grant Announcement

NEW YORK, NY (March 30, 2021)–A new center that will provide specialized care for patients with Lyme disease and other tick-borne diseases will begin seeing patients this summer at Columbia University’s Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons.

The Cohen Center for Health and Recovery from Tick-Borne Diseases, supported by a $16 million gift from the Steven & Alexandra Cohen Foundation, will be the first in New York City to offer dedicated treatment for people with Lyme and related diseases.

The foundation’s gift will also fund a national clinical trials network that will focus on identifying more effective treatments for patients with Lyme and tick-borne diseases.

“There is a growing need for evidence-based treatments for patients with Lyme and other tick-borne diseases,” said Anil Rustgi, MD, interim executive vice president and Dean of the Faculties of Health Sciences and Medicine at Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and Columbia University Irving Medical Center. “This generous gift from the Cohen Foundation will allow us to build on our faculty’s expertise in Lyme and tick-borne disease patient care and research, providing access to comprehensive, coordinated treatment.”

“We know firsthand the devastation that Lyme and tickborne diseases can cause, and we are thrilled to support this innovative center and clinical trials network to help bring treatments and hope to patients and their families,” said Alex Cohen, President, Steven & Alexandra Cohen Foundation.

Growing Need for Lyme Disease Experts and Research

The estimated incidence of Lyme disease in the United States has been steadily rising, to approximately 476,000 new cases (including individuals who are newly diagnosed or treated for the disease) annually. Despite antibiotic treatment, approximately 10-20% of these new infections will lead to distressing and potentially disabling symptoms, such as severe fatigue, joint and muscle pain, neurologic symptoms, and cognitive problems that may last for months or years.

There is limited expertise in treating the acute and chronic aspects of tick-borne diseases, making it difficult for patients to find high-quality, specialized care. In addition, little research has been done to determine which treatments are most effective for persistent symptoms, which can interfere with daily activities and work.

“Like COVID-19 ‘long-haulers,’ many people with tick-borne diseases were completely well until their infection precipitated a cascade of chronic, multi-system effects,” says Brian Fallon, MD, director of the Cohen Center for Health and Recovery from Tick-Borne Diseases. “A comprehensive evaluation takes time. In addition, the cost of care for patients with chronic symptoms can be prohibitive, requiring multiple visits to physicians who may not be aware of the latest research on tick-borne illnesses. Our center will be the first to address all of these issues by offering access to affordable care with experienced physicians while at the same time integrating research and physician training into our clinical model.“

Fallon plans to hire additional clinicians to begin seeing patients via telemedicine in July. New clinicians will include family, integrative, and behavioral medicine specialists. Patients with acute or chronic symptoms are expected to be able to see the Cohen Center team this fall in the center’s new clinical space in the Neurological Institute.

“Many patients with chronic symptoms related to tickborne illness are misdiagnosed with conditions such as depression, chronic fatigue syndrome, or even psychosomatic disorder,” says Shannon Delaney, MD, co-director of the Cohen Center. “Children infected with a tick-borne illness may have dramatic and disabling neurologic or psychiatric symptoms that seem to occur overnight.”

Cohen Center patients will be invited to enroll in clinical trials, as well as brain imaging studies and neuropsychiatric studies. Studies that identify biologic markers can help determine treatment approaches.

The Cohen Center will provide training for family medicine fellows and medical students on how to evaluate and treat patients with tick-borne diseases.

“Our educational component will allow us to create a pipeline of family medicine and primary care physicians with experience in caring for patients with the unique and varied set of symptoms associated with tick-borne diseases,” says Krishna Desai, MD, assistant professor of medicine at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and director of family and integrative medicine at the center.

First Clinical Trials Network for Lyme and Tick-borne Diseases

The Cohen gift expands Lyme and tick-borne diseases research by establishing the first clinical trials network for multi-site clinical trials and pilot studies to assess treatments. Columbia will be the coordinating site for the trials. Experts at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Children’s National Hospital are key members of the national network.

Academics, community physicians, and the general public will be invited annually to submit treatment study ideas to the clinical trials network for consideration.

“There’s a critical need for effective therapies for patients with Lyme and tick-borne diseases,” says Fallon. “The clinical trials network will be a powerful engine to drive high-quality research in tick-borne diseases, including large-scale clinical trials and potentially transformational early stage research.”

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Brian Fallon, MD, MPH, is professor of clinical psychiatry at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and a physician-scientist with expertise in disorders intersecting medicine, neurology, and psychiatry. He is co-author of “Conquering Lyme Disease” with Dr. Jenifer Sotsky (Columbia University Press, 2017). He is also director of the Lyme and Tick-Borne Diseases Research Center at Columbia University.

Shannon Delaney, MD, is assistant professor of psychiatry at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and an expert in child and adult neuropsychiatry and infection-triggered neuropsychiatric disorders.

Krishna Desai, MD, is assistant professor of medicine at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons.

The clinical trials network collaborating investigators include John Aucott, MD, Director of the Johns Hopkins Lyme Disease Research Center, in Baltimore, Maryland, and Roberta DeBiasi, MD, Chief, Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Children’s National Hospital in Washington, D.C.

Columbia University Irving Medical Center provides international leadership in basic, preclinical, and clinical research; medical and health sciences education; and patient care. The medical center trains future leaders and includes the dedicated work of many physicians, scientists, public health professionals, dentists, and nurses at the Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, the Mailman School of Public Health, the College of Dental Medicine, the School of Nursing, the biomedical departments of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and allied research centers and institutions. Columbia University Irving Medical Center is home to the largest medical research enterprise in New York City and State and one of the largest faculty medical practices in the Northeast. For more information, visit cuimc.columbia.edu or columbiadoctors.org.

About the Steven and Alexandra Cohen Foundation

The Steven & Alexandra Cohen Foundation is committed to inspiring philanthropy and community service by creating awareness, offering guidance, and leading by example to show the world what giving can do. The Foundation’s grants support nonprofit organizations based in the United States that either help people in need or solve complex problems. The Foundation also spearheads grassroots campaigns to encourage others to give. For more information, visit http://www.steveandalex.org.

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Activism, Lyme

U.S. Court Rules in Favor of Property Owners Installing 5G & Wi-Fi Antennas on Homes Without Notifying Neighbors or Permit

https://www.activistpost.com/2021/03/u-s-court-rules-in-favor-of-property-owners-installing-5g-and-wi-fi-antennas-on-homes-without-notifying-neighbors-or-permit

U.S. Court Rules in Favor of Property Owners Installing 5G and Wi-Fi Antennas on Homes without Notifying Neighbors or Permit

MARCH 31, 2021

By B.N. Frank

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is supposed to protect Americans by regulating the telecom industry.  It has catered to the industry instead for decades (see 1, 2).  During the Trump administration lawsuits were filed against the agency for NOT protecting the public from unsafe levels of cell phone and WiFi radiation as well as 5G on Earth (see 1, 2, 3, 4, 5) and in space.

Despite another lawsuit and emergency injunction filed against the agency’s amended “OTARD Rule”, a court has ruled in favor of it.  Because of this, American property owners may install 5G and WiFi antennas that will broadcast into their neighborhoods without obtaining a permit or notifying anybody. (See link for article)

http://  Approx. 3 Min

The FCC & OTARD Rule

The FCC plans to amend an old Over-The-Air-Reception-Device (OTARD) rule to allow wireless companies to place 5G transmitters on private homes in your neighborhood, with no notice, no hearing, no opportunity for you to do anything about it. The FCC is supposed to work for the people, not the wireless companies. Please call Congressman Frank Pallone at (202) 225-4671 and ask him to hold hearings on the OTARD rule and stop the FCC!

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**Comment**

Lyme/MSIDS patients often struggle with sensitivities – including EMFs.

Important excerpt:

Cities AND entire countries have taken action to ban, delay, halt, and limit 5G installation AS WELL AS issue moratoriums due to health, safety, environmental and economic risks.  The majority of scientists worldwide oppose deployment. If you are opposed to 5G, sign and share this letter asking President Biden and Vice President Harris to stop deployment ASAP.

This change in the OTARD rule is reminiscent of how our public ‘authorities’ have been using us to raise money for their biased, self-serving and flawed research regarding tick-borne illness.  Now, the FCC is using people – probably oblivious to the health ramifications of EMFs, especially on chronically ill people, to install their transmitters – bypassing reasonable debate.

Sign the letter and spread the word.

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Activism

WHO Data: Ivermectin Reduces COVID Mortality by 81%. Also WHO: We Still Don’t Recommend it.

https://www.theblaze.com/op-ed/horowitz-who-data-ivermectin-reduces-covid-mortality-by-81-also-who-we-still-dont-recommend-it

Horowitz: WHO data: Ivermectin reduces COVID mortality by 81%. Also WHO: We still don’t recommend it.

DANIEL HOROWITZ

April 01, 2021

Imagine if we could have saved 81% of those who ultimately died from the virus by treating them early with a cheap, safe drug, along with other cheap therapeutic cocktails. Well, for one, more people would be alive today. But more important to the powers at be, there would have been no excuse to fear the virus and sow panic and tyranny. Also, there would have been no market for expensive therapeutics and vaccines that are much more experimental and unproven. Which is likely why the WHO is refusing to recommend ivermectin for early COVID treatment, even as its own data prove it should be championed as a cure.

On Wednesday, the WHO updated its guide on therapeutics and COVID-19. Under ivermectin, the meta-analysis shows an 81% drop in mortality among those who used ivermectin as opposed to standard care. It also shows a 64% decrease in hospitalization. Nonetheless, the WHO refuses to endorse it because it claims the confidence level is low.  (See link for article)

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**Comment**

This is almost becoming comical.  Almost….

Important excerpt:

In total, there have been 49 studies, 26 of them randomized controlled trials, showing that ivermectin works against the virus. The pooled results show an 80% improvement when used early, 89% when used as prophylaxis, and even a 50% improvement at late stages. It is simply shocking that the global elites would continue to treat this long-used drug as experimental while treating novel vaccines that were only studied by the companies creating them as ironclad. Consider that the vaccines have not been approved by the FDA, on label or off label, there is no liability, and there is no data on long-term safety issues.

Lyme/MSIDS patients suffer from the same ignorance, misinformation, and evil. They are denied the very treatment that could help them – long term antimicrobials. For over 40 years a false narrative has been regurgitated, believed, and followed by mainstream medicine. Doctors are afraid to diagnose and treat Lyme/MSIDS, and anyone that defies the narrative is hunted down and persecuted – similarly to what’s happening with COVID.

We need a CDC/NIAID/FDA walkaway movement.
 

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Activism, Treatment, Viruses

Media Caught in Blatant Lie About Hank Aaron’s Death

Recently, an online webinar called “The COVID Vaccine on Trial: If You Only Knew…..” revealed some interesting developments, one of which concerned the recent death of baseball legend Hank Aaron which occurred after receiving the COVID injection.  Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pointed out that Aaron’s death was part of a “wave of deaths among seniors, among elderly people, Americans, following vaccination.”  

He specifically and purposely avoided saying Aaron’s death was caused by the injection.

Aaron was used by the HHS in a press conference to persuade Black Americans to take the jab, but just 17 days later he died after getting it. Not a very convincing message.

Kennedy’s simple and natural observation was attacked and loudly condemned by mainstream media.

This is where it gets interesting.

All of the articles attacking Kennedy cited the Fulton County Coroner’s Office as their source, stating that Hank Aaron’s death was not caused by a vaccine.  Period.

After Kennedy “spent a lot of time waiting on telephones” to speak with the coroner’s office, he discovered that the office never had Hank Aaron’s body.  There was never an autopsy, post mortem, or necropsy done.  Evidently, his personal doctor just assumed he died of natural causes.  

The national press simply lied to the American public once again.  Source

The webinar pointed out many other important details:

  • The FDA has not approved or licensed these “vaccines.”  They are simply authorized as “may be effective.”
  • The FDA can only authorize these “vaccines” when there are no adequately approved alternatives.  This is why effective therapies like HCQ, Ivermectin, Vitamin D, Vitamin C, zinc, and others are shut-down.  
  • This is causing wide-spread censorship of doctors, research articles, and news articles advocating these interventions, as well as the promotion of fake science.
  • CDC officials have confirmed that state institutions cannot mandate these Messenger RNA vaccines, because the US has long upheld the first principle of the Nuremberg Code: that the consent of the individual is absolutely essential in any scientific experiment. These “vaccines” are experimental.
  • The reason it is advantageous to pharmaceutical companies, governments and healthcare providers to have these experimental products be under an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) is because it makes them risk-free. 
  • Under the PREP Act if you are injured or die you have to apply within a year to a government administrative program, not a court of law.  If your injury appears after a year you have no recourse.  There’s no hearing and if you lose there’s no appeal.  Everything is on paper – nothing in person – no witnesses, no experts, and no published decisions.  
  • Historically, this program has compensated under 8% of all petitions.
  • The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the four biggest vaccine manufacturers, Pfizer, Merck, GSK and Sanofi, have all been funding biotech firms, including those manufacturing the COVID vaccines today, looking for the next big thing in vaccine profits. Don’t think for a minute that the push to vaccinate the world will be over with COVID-19.
  • Dr. Tenpenny states: “Can you think of any other product in any other industry at any other point in time that has caused this much damage in eight weeks that is still on the market? And not only still on the market, but pushing full steam ahead to get a little bit of this in every person’s arm? So take a step back and think about what that actually means, and it’s a much bigger agenda, as I’m sure many of you know.”  She also points out mechanisms of injury (MOI):
    • anaphylaxis
    • anti-spike immunoglobulins: European epidemiologists state it can take up to 42 days after the shot to develop the highest concentrations of the anti-spike antibody
    • accelerated autoimmune reactions after exposure to other coronaviruses – no one knows how long that risk will be – 1 week, 1 month, 5 years?
    • accelerated risk of more severe side effects  as well as more likely to contract coronavirus infection if you’ve previously had a flu shot
    • antibody dependent enhancement or Trojan Horse phenomenon where your body uncontrollably replicates antibodies after re-exposure to coronaviruses that far supersedes anything you could contract naturally without previous vaccination
    • modification of anti-inflammatory M2 macrophages due to anti-spike immunoglobulin – animal studies showed their lungs were full of M1 macrophages and NO M2 macrophages at all
    • autoimmune disorders caused by anti-spike immunoglobulins, antibodies cross-reacting with human tissue. A study showed that 28 out of 55 tissue types cross-reacted with the anti-spike immunoglobulin, which is why people get extreme fatigue from this infection or vaccine, as well as all the neurological problems
    • Tenpenny states there are more than these 7 MOI
    • There are also more things coming through the syringe than what is listed on the Moderna patent.  RNA when it goes into your cells creates a protein called flagellin which causes a huge antibody response – the more the response, the more tissue destruction occurs.  It’s an unapproved adjuvant, never used before on animals and humans that will cause more havoc in the body – anywhere from 4-6 weeks or months in the future

I highly recommend you read the entire transcript as it is chuck-full of information including social justice issues that demand discussion.

I post this information for two reasons: 1) The mainstream media has become nothing more than an arm of pharmaceutical companies peddling their wares. This means you need to corroborate everything they say.  Regarding articles on tick-borne illness, I continue to correct blatant inaccuracies.  2) This experimental mRNA injection that isn’t a vaccine needs to be scrutinized and debated widely.  Many have come forth with serious accusations and details. While the injection manufacturers continue to state they are “safe and effective,” multitudes are experiencing life-changing severe reactions including death.  

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Activism, Viruses

Lyme Causes “False Brain Tumor” in Child

https://danielcameronmd.com/lyme-disease-false-brain-tumor-child/  Podcast here

LYME DISEASE CAUSES “FALSE BRAIN TUMOR” IN YOUNG CHILD

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Welcome to another Inside Lyme Podcast. I am your host Dr. Daniel Cameron. I find that the best way to get to know Lyme disease is through reviewing actual cases. In this episode, I’ll be discussing a case involving a 9-year-old boy with with a pseudotumor cerebri due to Lyme disease.

By

Ezequiel and colleagues first described this case in the British Medical Journal Case Reports in 2017.¹

Pseudotumor cerebri means “false brain tumor” because its symptoms are similar to those caused by brain tumors. It’s also known as idiopathic intracranial hypertension.

Symptoms mimic brain tumor 

The boy was admitted to the hospital with “daily pulsatile frontotemporal headache, pallor, photophobia and phonophobia, without night awakening, vomiting or visual changes,” the authors write. (Photophobia is sensitivity to light. Phonophobia is fear or aversion to sound.)

The doctors found papilloedema, which is swelling of the optic disc but no neck pain. A CT scan of the patient’s head was normal. He had an increased opening pressure in his spinal tap. In other words, the fluid removed from his spinal tap was under higher pressure.

Pseudotumor cerebri is a condition caused by elevated cerebrospinal fluid pressure in the brain.

The boy was diagnosed with a pseudotumor. Pseudotumor cerebri is a condition caused by elevated cerebrospinal fluid pressure in the brain. Symptoms can mimic a brain tumor, but in fact are due to intracranial pressure in the head.

He was prescribed acetazolamide while undergoing further evaluation. (Acetazolamide is a diuretic and carbonic anhydrase inhibitor medication that is used to reduce eye pressure.)

The boy was tested for a wide range of bacterial and viral infections, all of which were negative.

Treatment for neuroborreliosis 

He lived in Portugal and because he had visited the countryside prior to developing symptoms, he was tested for Lyme disease. A Western blot and spinal tap revealed he was positive.

The boy was diagnosed with Lyme disease and treated with a 21-day course of intravenous ceftriaxone. He recovered completely.

The authors point out, “CSF [cerebral spinal fluid] changes are not common, so in their presence, it is compulsory to investigate an infectious origin, as happened in this case, as the intracranial hypertension might be the only symptom of a central nervous system infection.”

Furthermore, “Borrelia infections should be actively investigated in children with central nervous system disease even in non-endemic areas.”

The following questions are addressed in this Podcast:

1. What is Pseudotumor cerebri and why is it referred to as ‘false brain tumor?’
2. What are the causes and how is it diagnosed?
3. How often does pseudotumor cerebri occur in Lyme disease?
4. Can it be the only manifestation of Lyme disease?
5. Can you discuss the boy’s initial treatment?
6. What are your thoughts on the treatment he received for Lyme disease?

    Thanks for listening to another Inside Lyme Podcast. You can read more about these cases in my show notes and on my website @DanielCameronMD.com. As always, it is your likes, comments, reviews, and shares that help spread the word about Lyme disease. Until next time on Inside Lyme.

Please remember that the advice given is general and not intended as specific advice as to any particular patient. If you require specific advice, then please seek that advice from an experienced professional.

Inside Lyme Podcast Series

This Inside Lyme case series will be discussed on my Facebook and made available on podcast and YouTube.  As always, it is your likes, comments, and shares that help spread the word about this series and our work. If you can, please leave a review on iTunes or wherever else you get your podcasts.

References:
  1. Ezequiel M, Teixeira AT, Brito MJ, Luis C. Pseudotumor cerebri as the presentation of Lyme disease in a non-endemic area. BMJ Case Rep. 2018;2018.

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I pray this treatment was enough and that Lyme was the only culprit.

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