5 days 8 hours 45 min ago Clarification: Chronic Lyme disease

We have a clarification to a story we reported last week -- on chronic Lyme disease.

In our story we explained that the Connecticut attorney general had forged an agreement with the "Infectious Diseases Society of America" – the IDSA.

The society agreed to review its guidelines regarding Lyme disease.

The guidelines in question say there's no evidence long-term antibiotics can cure chronic Lyme -- or even that such a condition exists.

The agreement calls for the IDSA to form a new group of experts to review standards for treating Lyme disease -- and to consider whether the guidelines are justified or need revision.

Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal found that some members of the board that wrote the guidelines in 2006 had conflicts of interest.

In our story we interviewed a physician who does not believe chronic Lyme exists.

We repeated that assertion without attributing it to that physician -- this made it seem that we were taking sides and agreeing with him.

We should have attributed that statement to the physician and regret that we did not.