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	SPECT Imaging of Chronic Lyme Disease vs Other Disorders Status: Currently recruiting


	The national annual Lyme and Tick Borne Disease Conference sponsored by Columbia University and the Lyme Disease Association will be held in Boston on Friday, October 26, 2007. Treatment debate to be featured. Columbia University Magazine features comprehensive story on Controversies in Chronic Lyme Disease – "Rash Judgment" The Columbia University Lyme and Tick Borne Diseases Research Center (LTBDRC) New Fellowship Program in Lyme Disease is launched. Columbia University & Lyme Disease Association's 6th Annual Lyme Disease Conference scheduled for October 28, 2005 in Philadelphia. Grant Proposal request announced (7/05). On May 19, 2005, internationally acclaimed authors will speak out on Lyme Disease. “Writer’s Block of the Worst Kind: An Open Book on Lyme”. http://www.LymeLiterati.org Gala Dinner Dance on April 2nd, 2005, to raise funds for Columbia's Lyme Disease Center…Amy Tan, Honoree. NIH-NINDS Columbia Lyme Encephalopathy Study completed. Turn the Corner Foundation, Inc, supports 4th Year Medical Student Fellowships at Columbia Teenager Joseph Kamp delivers address Dec 10, 2004, at Pennsylvania conference on Lyme disease National Lyme and Other Tick-Borne Diseases Conference, October 22, 2004, Rye, New York (September 4, 2004) New Lyme and Tick-Borne Disease Evaluation Service and Columbia University Medical Center (August 4, 2004) “Time for Lyme® Fundraiser at the Lymelight” (April 26, 2003) Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons and The Lyme Disease Foundation’s 16th International Scientific Conference on Lyme Disease and Tick-Borne Disorders (June 7th and 8th, 2003) Upcoming Lyme Disease Study Screening Clinic in Shrub Oak, NY and Nantucket, MA. (April 12 and 27, 2003) Time for Lyme Cocktail Buffet and Auction, sponsored by the Lyme Disease Association and the Greenwich Lyme Disease Task Force, will be held in Manhattan on October 18, 2002 New, More Flexible Criteria for Lyme Disease Retreatment Study (11/01) Wilton Lyme Disease Task Force supports a Summer Research Fellowship for a medical student to learn about Lyme Disease. (3/01) The Greenwich Lyme Disease Task Force, an affiliate of the national Lyme Disease Association, commits to the establishment of a Lyme Disease Research Center at Columbia University (4/01). Wilton Lyme Disease Task Force supports three new research projects and an endowed research fund (5/01). Bartonella henselae identified as a new tick-borne pathogen. (9/01) Borrelia burgdorferi recovered from infected mammal cells (3/01). New serologic test for Lyme disease: C6 Lyme Peptide ELISA (VlsE) (9/2000). Matrix Metalloproteinase Levels are elevated in the CSF of patients with chronic Lyme Persistent Lyme Disease responds to additional antibiotic therapy in an uncontrolled trial Cognitive Deficits identified in Children with Chronic Lyme Disease.