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MDedge Daily News: Lyme disease spreading, but better testing could be coming


 

Lyme disease is no longer strictly confined to the U.S. Northeast and upper Midwest, but there could be a better way to test for it soon. Also today, three days of beta-lactam beats community acquired pneumonia, cannabidiol gel for osteoarthritis knee pain gives lukewarm results, and BMI helps to predict bone fragility in obese patients.

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