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NewsCenterMaine (NBC), November 9, 2018 By Vivien Leigh …a small number of kids in Maine didn’t contract Lyme through a tick bite. Instead, doctors believe the disease was passed to them in the womb through their moms living with undiagnosed Lyme for years. Watch here: Read More »

The Tick-Borne Disease Working Group has issued its first report to Congress. The document calls on the federal government to focus more resources on the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of Lyme disease. The panel was first convened in December 2017, in accordance with the... Read More »

Researchers shine light on the link between Borrelia spirochetes and a mysterious skin condition. Morgellons disease is frequently associated with Borrelia burgdorferi (Bb), the agent of Lyme disease, as well as tick-borne relapsing fever Borrelia (RFB), according to a study... Read More »

A Canadian man is suing two doctors and a medical center for failing to appropriately diagnose and treat him for Lyme disease. According to his Statement of Claim, Frank Papineau of Ontario was bitten by a tick in 2010 and began experiencing severe symptoms. Though he was under... Read More »

“Chronic Lyme disease” is a term that still generates controversy in the medical world. I was recently interviewed by Charles Seales of Newsy’s “The Why,” who asked me what I’d say to people who claim it is not a legitimate diagnosis. Newsy is an online national news... Read More »

A recent study in “Scientific Reports” (an online, open access journal from the publishers of Nature) showed that 65% of Lyme disease patients—at all stages of the illness—were infected with more than one microbe. Furthermore, the researchers from University of Jyväskylä in... Read More »

A new study of Lyme disease in Canada suggests that government statistics severely under-detect and under-report human cases of the illness in that country. C0-authored by Mount Allison University biology professor Vett Lloyd and Ralph Hawkins, MD, clinical associate professor at... Read More »

I’m excited to report that the first study using information from MyLymeData has just been published in the medical journal Healthcare. Using patient-reported outcome data from 3,900 people enrolled in MyLymeData, we looked at how individual patients vary in their response to... Read More »

October 31, 2018 is the deadline to apply for this year’s grants from the LivLyme Foundation. LivLyme awards grants to help pay for Lyme treatment for young people under age 21. The money can be used for doctors/clinics, medications and supplements.  Grants are paid... Read More »