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The Tick-Borne Disease Working Group held its fifth meeting in Washington DC on May 15. The public could view it via webcast. Our Lonnie Marcum live-tweeted the day’s proceedings. Move the scroll bar to view her tweets (and re-tweets and comments from LymeDisease.org President... Read More »

Many in the Lyme community have followed the proceedings of the federal Tick-Borne Diseases Working Group closely. As I watched the webcast of the May 10 meeting, I was generally heartened by what I saw. Subcommittees on different subject areas gave their reports to the Working... Read More »

Editor’s note: The topic of a Lyme vaccine has raised some controversy surrounding the federal Tick-Borne Disease Working Group, which meets this week in Washington DC. In order to shed light on the history of this contentious issue, we are publishing the following excerp... Read More »

If you have Lyme disease and live in the United States, we want YOU to enroll in MyLymeData. To sweeten the deal, in honor of Lyme Disease Awareness Month, the first 50 people to enroll in the month of May will get a special gift. Just fill out the form below. With more than... Read More »

By Sandra Berenbaum Lyme disease can drastically impact a child’s education. One of the biggest problems involves sleep—both too much and too little. Some children may sleep many more hours than is common for others their age. But from what I have seen, for most young Lyme... Read More »

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention made big news this week by announcing that illnesses from mosquito, tick and flea bites have more than tripled in the United States from 2004 to 2016. During that period, more than 640,000 cases of vector-borne diseases were reported... Read More »

May is National Lyme Disease Awareness Month, a chance for Lyme patients, activists and educators to spread information on how to prevent Lyme and tick-borne diseases.  We’ve created a list of several things that you, your family, and friends, can do to help spread awareness.... Read More »

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is a small, little-known part of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). One of the functions that AHRQ has performed up until now is to provide the National Guidelines Clearinghouse (NGC). NGC is a database of... Read More »

By Shona Curley I have had Lyme disease since 2014. I am slowly recovering, and a few weeks ago I decided I could handle an experiment. I had been reading about autophagy, and how intermittent fasting can increase it. Autophagy is a natural, cellular process of detoxification and... Read More »