The LDF's website averages 270,000 hits a month and has color pictures, information, state resources and international links to more information. The Rx Club is an independent forum for the worldwide creative community to meet, exchange ideas and capabilities, and evaluate the best creative products they and their organizations have to offer in a totally independent environment. All winners are showcased in the healthcare publication, Product Management Today . The entries were judged by a panel of experts from various companies within the health care industry. When evaluating each entry, the judges maintain a keen eye for excellence in overall concept, design, originality, and relationship between graphics and copy.
Judges analyze the extent of effective use of illustration, photography, and typography.
The panel also considers how efficiently these individual components combine for creative dynamism and solid messages. Submissions were in the form of posters, brochures, booklets, radio tapes, web pages, CD-roms, videotapes, and boxed material. Left undiagnosed, LD can disseminate through the body and cause a wide range of manifestations, including neurologic, cardiac, musculoskeletal, and ophthalmologic problems. Patients may experience symptoms ranging from joint pain, headache, and exhaustion - to facial paralysis and severe memory loss. Antibody tests for LD, which have significant limitations, only measure the immune system s response to the bacterium and cannot prove the presence or absence of infection.