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News release from Bay Area Lyme Foundation. July 12, 2018: Bay Area Lyme Foundation, a leading nonprofit funder of innovative Lyme disease research in the U.S., today announced the results of the first citizen-scientist study to evaluate the prevalence of disease-carrying ticks... Read More »

By Nancy Marie Allen On a warm August night in 2004, my husband and I went to a local AMVETS hall to celebrate a friend’s birthday. While we enjoyed the music and food, I knew something was wrong as I began to feel increasing pain in my legs. I suddenly felt unwell and we left... Read More »

Press release from FDA, July 10, 2018. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today is requiring safety labeling changes for a class of antibiotics called fluoroquinolones to strengthen the warnings about the risks of mental health side effects and serious blood sugar... Read More »

I have mixed feelings about the following article in the Wall Street Journal this week: “The Effort for Lyme Disease Vaccine Draws Early Fire.” To her credit, reporter Sumathi Reddy did include comments from two major patient advocacy groups, LymeDisease.org and the Lyme Disease... Read More »

From the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, July 9, 2018: In the eastern US, risk of contracting Lyme disease is higher in fragmented forests with high rodent densities and low numbers of resident fox, opossum, and raccoons. These are among the findings from an analysis of 19... Read More »

Wall Street Journal, July 9, 2018 by Sumathi Reddy Efforts to bring a vaccine for Lyme disease to the market have run aground amid heated debate over the years. Now, a European company is in the early stages of creating a vaccine for the increasingly common tick-borne disease.... Read More »

A mother’s posting on Facebook has gone viral. Here’s her story. Gina Elizabeth, of southwest Pennsylvania, took her four-year-old daughter Morgan to her local hospital in June for what she described as “a mystery rash.” She told the doctors the girl had been “bitten by a bug”... Read More »

Press release from New York Assemblymember Didi Barrett, July 3, 2018: As New York enters the height of tick season, and as a new and rare tick-borne disease is emerging in the region, Assemblymember Didi Barrett (D – Columbia, Dutchess) announced the passage of two... Read More »

By Laura Durnell Porochista Khakpour’s insightful and haunting narrative of her battle with incurable late-stage Lyme disease is more than a memoir of her own illness. In Sick, Khakpour spotlights America’s diseased health care system, and in particular how it infects the most... Read More »