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What’s the meaning of a retweet, anyway? Retweeting a post on Twitter is akin to sharing an article on Facebook. I think most people interpret retweeting as a way of saying: “Right on! I want everyone to know that I agree with this statement.” So, what did it mean last... Read More »

by Anthony Wallace In an all too familiar tale, I was diagnosed with Lyme disease after three years of mysterious symptoms and a lot of doctors who didn’t take me seriously. Like others who’ve been through this, I came out the other end with an new perspective on the human body,... Read More »

The Chronicle Herald, January 28, 2019: by Andrew Rankin HALIFAX, N.S. – A recent retweet by the province’s top doctor dismissing chronic Lyme disease as a condition based on pseudoscience and supported by a chronic Lyme cult, is being met with sharp criticism by one of... Read More »

by Lisa Kilion A recent New York Times opinion piece, Why I Didn’t Answer Your Email, discussed reasons why a parent of neurotypical, healthy children wouldn’t return an email. Her children needed help with homework, a snuggle before bedtime, reminders to clean up after... Read More »

A mom can pass the pathogen to her fetus—but the World Health Organization has removed “congenital Lyme disease” from its definitive diagnostic reference By Mary Beth Pfeiffer, Scientific American, January 25, 2019 Let’s say, for the sake of argument, you plummet from a ski... Read More »

Mary Beth Pfeiffer, author of “Lyme: The First Epidemic of Climate Change,” is the nation’s leading investigative reporter on Lyme and other tick-borne diseases. In her recent “TEDx Talk,” she discusses the expansion of ticks throughout the world,... Read More »

One woman’s story of getting and coping with late-stage Lyme disease—one of the fastest spreading, most debilitating, and least understood diseases in the nation. By Shona Curley, Oakland Magazine, January 21, 2019 In summer 2013, I got a tiny tick bite. The nymph (baby)... Read More »

LymeHope is pushing for the screening of Lyme disease in pregnant women, research into better testing, and for the use of preventative antibiotics.  CTVNews, Canada, January 20, 2019 These mothers and their kids struggled for years with severe dizziness, pain, digestive problems,... Read More »

It’s hard to believe that just a decade ago, the online Lyme world looked very different from today. Facebook and Twitter were in their infancy. (At that time, there wasn’t even a “like” button on Facebook!) Instagram and Pinterest hadn’t been invented. There... Read More »