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By Mary Beth Pfeiffer Patients who are suing over alleged denial of care for long-standing Lyme disease may have to submit to medical examination to prove their conditions, a federal judge ruled in a hearing in Texarkana, Texas, federal court. The ruling hits on a pivotal issue... Read More »

by Shona Curley Recently I spoke with my medical intuitive, Adrienne, on the phone. Yes, I know—how California! But this lovely woman has helped me more than anyone else on my journey toward Lyme remission. With Lyme disease, you take a leap of faith with every new treatment.... Read More »

Advocates for Lyme disease patients have filed an “information quality request for correction” complaint that challenges the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) position on how frequently the bull’s-eye erythema migrans (EM) rash occurs in patients with Lyme... Read More »

This week, LymeDisease.org submitted comments on the proposed National Institutes of Health’s Tickborne Diseases Strategic Plan (NIH Research Plan). We reached out to the Lyme community to hear your views about it. Over 4,300 Lyme disease patients responded to our survey in... Read More »

A message from New York Lyme advocate Jill Auerbach: The New York State Budget is now in negotiation and we in the Lyme community need to be vocal and visible, RIGHT NOW! Also, PLEASE SHARE this with all others in NYS who have tick-borne disease. WHAT TO DO This is easy to do and... Read More »

Dr. Charles Ray Jones is the world’s leading pediatric Lyme specialist. He has treated well over 15,000 children from around the globe, over a period of more than four decades. He has helped countless more, by training doctors and sharing his vast knowledge at conferences... Read More »

Ixodes scapularis is the kind of tick that carries Lyme disease (and other nasties) throughout much of the United States. However, its cousin, Ixodes pacificus, carries Lyme and co-infections in California and other parts of the west. Scientists sequenced the genome of I.... Read More »

The Winter 2019 issue of the Lyme Times offers a look at Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick, by Maya Dusenbury. Throughout the book, Dussenbury discusses medical gender bias in the context of such topics as... Read More »

According to reports by the Associated Press, the New York Times, and other news outlets, baseball Hall of Famer Tom Seaver has been diagnosed with dementia. This comes some 28 years after Seaver was first diagnosed with Lyme disease. Seaver was an iconic star of the New York... Read More »