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CommonHealth: Should Insurers Be Required To Cover Experimental Lyme Disease Treatments?

CommonHealth: Should Insurers Be Required To Cover Experimental Lyme Disease Treatments?

Charlie Baker has until midnight tonight to decide whether he's going to sign a controversial bill that requires health insurers to cover long-term antibiotic treatment for Lyme disease.Similar mandates have passed in other New England states.But Baker has questioned whether long-term antibiotics are a clinically accepted treatment.GuestCarey Goldberg, editor of WBUR's CommonHealth blog.


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Yolanda Hadid 'Slowly' Returns to Modeling After Long Battle With Lyme Disease

Yolanda Hadid 'Slowly' Returns to Modeling After Long Battle With Lyme Disease

Bella and Gigi Hadid definitely get their modeling skills from their mama.After a rough 2015 of battling Lyme disease and divorcing David Foster, Yolanda Hadid is giving modeling another go.The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star shared a photo of herself on Thursday, and she looked like a complete natural.WATCH: Yolanda Hadid Goes Braless, Flashes Photographers While Posing With Daughter Gigi Hadid"Little rusted but slowly getting back in action with @jimjordanphotography," she wrote along with the hashtags #Grateful, #Blessed and #GoodDay.


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I Was Diagnosed With Lyme Disease — And Then It Wouldn't Go Away

I Was Diagnosed With Lyme Disease — And Then It Wouldn't Go Away

Why Lyme may lingerIn some ways, Brandi was one of the lucky ones, since she ultimately found an explanation for her health woes.Recent research suggests that somewhere between 10% and 20% of people treated for Lyme with the standard 21 days of antibiotics develop PTLDS — lingering symptoms that last six months or more.The risk of PTLDS is higher the later Lyme is diagnosed, but it can happen to anyone, and many patients endure debilitating muscle and joint pain, anxiety and fatigue for years before finding a doctor who understands PTLDS.That's particularly scary given that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now estimates that more than 300,000 people in the U.S. are diagnosed with and treated for Lyme every year.