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As I write this on Monday morning, Dec. 4, more than 8500 (update: 10,000+) people have signed our petition to remove Dr. Gary Wormser from the newly formed federal Tick-Borne Diseases Working Group, which has its first meeting on Dec. 11. As previously reported, LymeDisease.org... Read More »

Click here to sign our Change.org petition to HHS The federal Tick-Borne Disease Working Group was established by 2016’s 21st Century Cures Act. The idea was to bring together a diverse set of stakeholders, including treating physicians, researchers, patients, advocates and... Read More »

The following is republished from my blog last year. It has been updated slightly. Guest blog by Rachel Leland In November of 2015, I was in month six of what ended up being 13 months of intense mold treatment (on top of Lyme treatment). I wasn’t allowed to even step foot inside... Read More »

My twitter-finger was working overtime last weekend at the International Lyme and Associated Diseases conference in Boston. Here’s a running list of what I tweeted the first day, Nov. 10. Stay tuned for tweets from Day 2 and 3.   LymeSci is written by Lonnie Marcum, a... Read More »

Ally Hilfiger, daughter of fashion mogul Tommy Hilfiger, was bitten by a tick when she was seven—and her life was never the same again. She developed serious physical and psychological problems, and was variously diagnosed with “growing pains,” fibromyalgia, ADHD and multiple... Read More »

I first learned about the Lyme disease experiences of Yolanda Hadid (then known as Yolanda Foster) via Twitter. At that point, Yolanda was a cast member of the “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” TV show, a former high fashion model, wife of millionaire music mogul David Foster,... Read More »

A group of researchers has recently identified several essential oils, derived from common spice or culinary herbs, that have better antimicrobial activity against the bacteria that causes Lyme disease than some antibiotics. The study screened a panel of 34 essential oils, and... Read More »

Dr. Jane Marke,  an integrative psychiatrist who has made a subspecialty of treating patients with tick-borne disease, recently spoke at the Central Massachusetts Lyme Foundation’s annual conference. She was on a panel with other Lyme experts: Dr. Kenneth Liegner, Dr. Daniel... Read More »

When Lady Gaga recently revealed a diagnosis of fibromyalgia—a set of symptoms characterized by widespread pain that is frequently accompanied by fatigue, sleep disturbances, memory issues and mood changes—I thought of another famous singer, Kris Kristofferson. The Country Music... Read More »