Treating Lymes Related Rheumatoid Arthritis
Article updated and reviewed by David Aronoff, M.D., Assistant Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Michigan Medical School on May 9, 2005.
In 1975, Lyme disease was discovered in Old Lyme, Connecticut. Parents were perplexed by the high
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