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Exhibit 238

Attorney General's Investigation Reveals Flawed Lyme Disease Guideline Process

Exhibit 238 · Attorney general's release preserved in legislative record

Attorney General's Investigation Reveals Flawed Lyme Disease Guideline Process

The IDSA failed to conduct a conflicts of interest review for any of the panelists prior to their appointment to the 2006 Lyme disease guideline panel;

Announces process findings involving conflicts and excluded viewpoints, plus an agreement for an independently screened review panel.

Source
Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal; reproduced in the Congressional Record
Date
1 May 2008 (reprinted 27 September 2008)
Quoted from
Congressional Record (House), 27 Sept 2008, H10174, reproducing the Connecticut AG press release of 1 May 2008 ("Blumenthal's findings include the following")
Grade
Primary record
Document
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CREC-2008-09-27/pdf/CREC-2008-09-27.pdf
Accessed
2026-11-09
Cited by
Findings citing this exhibit
Note
Congressional Record, pp. H10174–H10175. An investigative announcement, not a court judgment or finding of treatment efficacy.

Cited by

Finding MED-13.6
Primary record In 2008, Connecticut's attorney general announced that his investigation found conflicts and excluded viewpoints in IDSA's Lyme guideline process, and obtained an agreement for a new review.