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NBC News, October 7, 2019 By Pamela Weintraub The fight over Lyme disease is one of the hottest topics in medicine right now. Is Lyme underdiagnosed or overdiagnosed? Easily detected with current tests, or often missed? Cured with a 30-day supply of doxycycline or immortal,... Read More »

A bill requiring insurance companies to cover long-term treatment for Lyme disease passed the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in April. Since then, the measure has languished on the Senate side. Now, PA Lyme advocates are gearing up for a RALLY DAY at the State Capitol in... Read More »

Undark Magazine, October 2, 2019 by Cassandra Willyard JESSICA REEDER worries about ticks and the diseases they carry. She had Lyme disease, her brother had Lyme disease, and every fall her children come home from school with notes reminding parents to do a nightly tick check.... Read More »

Like many in the Lyme community, my ears perk up when TV or radio shows mention Lyme disease. Sometimes it’s just a toss-off line, played for laughs (such as in Madgascar or Friends.) Sometimes, it’s woven into the story line (like in Season 1, Episode 14, of New Amsterdam, or... Read More »

By Tanya White Phyllis and Scott Bedford’s daughter was diagnosed with Lyme disease in 2008. At that time, they had no idea of the exhausting and expensive medical journey on which they were about to embark. Their daughter, like so many other Lyme patients, had been sick and... Read More »

by Janet Dooley In 1995, while I was living in New England, my body became hijacked by a tick bite that carried five different infections. I went to a ridiculous number of doctors and alternative practitioners and none of them could diagnose or effectively treat me. I was... Read More »

The Herald-Standard, (Uniontown, PA), Sept. 23, 2019 by Rachel Basinger Eric Painter of Bullskin Township began his Lyme disease journey in 2010. “At first, it felt like I had the flu for probably two weeks, and then it started to subside, but after a week or two the same... Read More »

Eighty-seven organizations in 11 countries are now on record as opposing the IDSA’s proposed Lyme disease treatment guidelines. The most recent one to join the Ad Hoc Patient and Physician Coalition is borelioza.org – Lyme Poland. Other countries represented include the US,... Read More »

Roche, a Swiss multinational pharmaceutical company, has received approval from the US Food and Drug Administration for a test to screen donated blood for Babesia. If undetected, Babesia can be fatal in patients receiving blood transfusions from infected donors. The newly... Read More »