EDUCATIONAL LINKS

Films

  • Under Our Skin – Great free documentary, a real-life thriller, this shocking festival hit exposes the controversy surrounding chronic Lyme disease. Following the stories of individuals fighting for their lives, director Andy Abrahams Wilson reveals with beauty and horror a natural world out of balance and a human nature all too willing to put profits before patients.
  • The long-awaited “Part 2” of Under Our Skin, Emergence, is now available.

Organizations

Topics

Laboratories

Patient’s Medication and Lab Testing Assistance

  • Lyme Tap – The Lyme Test Access Program (Lyme-TAP) is a nationwide patient assistance program to provide assistance for initial Lyme-related lab tests to patients who demonstrate true financial need.
    http://www.lymetap.com/
  • Lyme Light – Anyone diagnosed with Lyme disease between ages of 3-25 and can demonstrate a qualified financial need.
    http://lymelightfoundation.org/
  • Make A Wish – Click on this link to go to “Make a Netwish”, a site to get monies, if you are in need.
    http://www.netwish.org/Request_a_Net_Wish.html

Providing patients access to medications they need

  • Bridges to Access – This is a GlaxoSmithKlein program providing low cost or no cost medications for non-medicare patients or for people who do not have prescription coverage. It is a great program for Malarone and Mepron.
    http://www.bridgestoaccess.com/
  • Clinic Of Angels – A non-profit organization founded in 2005 by Michael Cichon MD., an Infectious Disease physician whose purpose in starting this organization was to help chronically ill patients by providing financial resources to help in their medical care.
    http://www.clinicofangels.org/