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Singer Avril Lavigne has announced her return to music, some five years after the release of her last album. The Canadian pop-rock artist, 33, has explained in searing detail the health problems that kept her away from the limelight for so long. In an open letter to he... Read More »

Fox5NY presents an in-depth look at the progress being made in Lyme disease research, legislation and testing in a special entitled Lyme and Reason: Battles and Breakthroughs Against Lyme Disease.  It features journalist Mary Beth Pfeiffer, Lyme Disease Association President Pat... Read More »

Press Release:  August 27, 2018 Schumer: Funding Increase For CDC To Fight Lyme Disease Will Help Protect Against Tick-Borne Illnesses U.S. Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer today announced that the U.S. Senate has passed his amendment to the upcoming Health and Human... Read More »

I was recently privileged to be interviewed by Cindy Kennedy, FNP, about the book I co-authored with Sandra Berenbaum, “When Your Child Has Lyme Disease: A Parent’s Survival Guide.” Cindy is a nurse practitioner, a wife and mother–and she has experienced... Read More »

by Sylvia Janicki On a balmy early-summer day in 2014, in the bucolic Mississippi countryside, I found a tick burrowed into the side of my right leg. Shortly after, a bull’s-eye rash formed around the tick-bite, and then I fell ill, developing flu-like symptoms, muscle and joint... Read More »

By David Michael Conner As so many people who live with Lyme disease will attest, just about everything Lyme related can be complex, difficult to understand, and sometimes even self-contradictory. This includes how Lyme disease is reported. As global warming drives tick... Read More »

NBC News, August 15, 2018: by Maggie Fox A new kind of tick is causing an epidemic of Rocky Mountain spotted fever in Mexico, and it’s threatening to spread to the U.S., researchers said Wednesday. Rocky Mountain spotted fever is already dangerous, and the new carrier is more... Read More »

Elizabeth Nelson, 22, has been sick since childhood, with a laundry list of symptoms that would come and go over the years. However, things really came to head in 2010, at age 14. Among other problems, she had severe stomach pains and was losing weight at a scary pace. Her... Read More »

The New York Times ran an article today under the headline: Lyme disease is spreading fast. Why isn’t there a vaccine? Most troubling to me is how the article quotes certain people in a way that totally misrepresents who they are. Here’s a worrisome case in point: The... Read More »