LymeSci Blog List

• March 17, 2025
  Lyme disease increases gynecological health risks in women
• January 3, 2025
  Lyme disease research in review: triumphs, trials, and the path forward
• October 24, 2024
  Understanding and supporting invisible disabilities, including Lyme disease
• October 14, 2024
  When you’re sick and don’t know why–fighting for the right diagnosis
• September 23, 2024
  Answers to some–not all–of our questions about upcoming Lyme vaccine
• June 17, 2024
  New rickettsial pathogen discovered in California
• April 11, 2024
  Patients question CDC about Pfizer Lyme vaccine–Part 2
• April 4, 2024
  Combinations of antibiotics can eradicate Lyme in mice
• March 13, 2024
  Patients question CDC about Pfizer Lyme vaccine
• March 1, 2024
  True number of Lyme disease cases? We may never know.
• February 9, 2024
  Is the CDC going backwards in terms of persistent Lyme disease?
• December 7, 2023
  All about IgM–or why Lyme spirochetes are like stealth bombers
• October 12, 2023
  An “invisible” disability is still real
• September 26, 2023
  New centers tackle mystery of chronic illnesses, including Lyme
• August 29, 2023
  The Lyme disease vaccine–separating fact and fiction
• July 31, 2023
  Using herbs to treat Lyme disease, Bartonella, and Babesia
• July 19, 2023
  Paralyzed by Lyme, they were helped with combo treatments
• July 12, 2023
  Why Lyme disease treatment sometimes doesn’t work
• May 22, 2023
  Children have highest incidence of Lyme disease in US
• May 16, 2023
  CDC’s new online tool gives useful, if slightly flawed, information
• May 4, 2023
  California’s first CDC-confirmed case of Borrelia miyamotoi
• April 4, 2023
  Are you unknowingly ingesting toxic mold?
• March 21, 2023
  Severe weather can worsen mast cell activation syndrome
• March 20, 2023
  LivLyme Summit videos now available to watch. I highly recommend.
• February 9, 2023
  How to lift brain fog and boost your immune system
• January 23, 2023
  On what part of the your body are ticks most likely to bite?
• November 28, 2022
  The importance of Vitamin D in getting and staying healthy
• November 22, 2022
  As TBD Working Group closes down, I offer seven final suggestions
• November 3, 2022
  A Lyme rash doesn’t always look like a bull’s-eye target
• September 13, 2022
  Using genetic sequencing to diagnose acute Lyme disease
• August 3, 2022
  Does having Lyme disease increase the risk for severe COVID?
• July 15, 2022
  How prevalent is Bartonella in people who have Lyme disease?
• March 30, 2022
  LYME SCI: “Super-fast” lone star ticks are showing up in new places
• March 21, 2022
  LYME SCI: Lyme-carrying ticks in West differ from their Eastern cousins
• February 10, 2022
  LYME SCI: Do long COVID and long Lyme both activate mast cells?
• December 13, 2021
  LYME SCI: A test to find many infections at once is on the horizon
• November 3, 2021
  LYME SCI: Post-infectious fatigue and your vagus nerve
• October 5, 2021
  LYME SCI: My re-cap of recent LDA/Columbia Lyme conference
• September 16, 2021
  LYMESCI: Have we finally reached a Lyme research tipping point?
• July 13, 2021
  LYME SCI: The ticks you don’t see are the most dangerous
• June 16, 2021
  LYME SCI: Tick infection rates as high as 31% in some coastal areas of California
• May 17, 2021
  LYME SCI: Lyme spirochetes in an autopsied brain (despite treatment)
• April 12, 2021
  LYME SCI: North America is “ground zero” for babesiosis
• April 5, 2021
  LYME SCI: Don’t assume your symptoms mean COVID. Could be Lyme disease.
• March 30, 2021
  LYME SCI: Lyme disease can impact your vision’s “contrast sensitivity”
• March 1, 2021
  LYME SCI: Migrating birds help spread ticks and Lyme disease
• February 16, 2021
  LYME SCI: Working Group’s report documents spread of infected ticks
• December 8, 2020
  LYME SCI: Don’t medically abandon people with neurological Lyme
• November 11, 2020
  LYME SCI: Hopeful progress in search of better tests and treatments
• October 8, 2020
  LYME SCI: 12 ways you can help yourself manage chronic pain
• September 23, 2020
  LYME SCI: Feds adopt “national strategy” for vector-borne diseases
• September 14, 2020
  LYME SCI: Intersection of Lyme and COVID, plus honoring Neil Spector
• September 9, 2020
  LYME SCI: What smells like citrus and protects you from ticks?
• July 28, 2020
  LYME SCI: Remembering the gifts of Dr. Neil Spector
• July 20, 2020
  LYME SCI: How many “negative” Lyme tests are due to B. miyamotoi?
• June 23, 2020
  LYME SCI: Bureaucratic (and other) differences between Lyme and COVID
• April 22, 2020
  LYME SCI: Finding the silver lining during times of crisis
• April 10, 2020
  LYME SCI: Helping your child avoid coronavirus AND Lyme disease
• April 3, 2020
  LYME SCI: Continuing questions about COVID-19 testing
• March 30, 2020
  LYME SCI: Preventing COVID-19 with masks is a good idea after all
• March 26, 2020
  LYME SCI: How long can coronavirus last on surfaces, anyway?
• March 20, 2020
  LYME SCI: Reducing anxiety and stress about COVID-19
• March 20, 2020
  LYME SCI: How the 5 P’s can help you survive these coronavirus times
• March 4, 2020
  LYME SCI: There’s no grace period for tick bites. Let’s quit implying that there is.
• February 24, 2020
  LYME SCI: Six steps to protect yourself from viruses
• February 4, 2020
  LYME SCI: Why does the CDC endorse single-dose doxy to prevent Lyme?
• January 7, 2020
  LYME SCI: Can treating mast cells help neurological Lyme disease?
• November 22, 2019
  LYME SCI: Highlights from ILADS 2019 Scientific Conference: “Chronic Disease = Chronic Infections?”
• November 1, 2019
  LYME SCI: Help! I’ve gotten a tick bite. Now what?
• October 25, 2019
  LYME SCI: On the road to better ways of testing for Lyme disease
• October 7, 2019
  LYME SCI: Want to solve the Lyme wars? How about an accurate test?
• September 19, 2019
  LYME SCI: Finding encouragement at Stanford’s Lyme conference
• August 12, 2019
  LYME SCI: Early diagnosis necessitates Lyme-savvy doctors
• July 30, 2019
  LYME SCI: Ticks are worldwide. We all need to learn more about them.
• June 24, 2019
  LYME SCI: Found a tick on your dog? What you need to know.
• April 23, 2019
  LYME SCI: Seeking better treatments for persistent Lyme disease
• March 26, 2019
  LYME SCI: Nerve damage shown in patients with chronic Lyme symptoms
• February 28, 2019
  LYME SCI: When brain inflammation persists after Lyme disease treatment
• January 4, 2019
  LYME SCI: Are hidden ingredients in pills making you sicker?
• November 16, 2018
  LYME SCI: Lyme? Mold toxicity? Other chronic ills? Read this book.
• October 11, 2018
  LYME SCI: Paving the way for better Lyme diagnostic tests
• October 5, 2018
  LYMESCI: Increase of infected ticks means higher risk of tick bites
• August 7, 2018
  LYME SCI: Lyme has been found in all 50 states and is on the rise
• May 24, 2018
  LYME SCI: Tick-borne viruses? We don’t know what we don’t know.
• May 18, 2018
  LYME SCI: Infected ticks in California? It’s complicated.
• May 11, 2018
  LYME SCI: We need better testing and we need it now
• April 19, 2018
  LYME SCI: What to eat when you’re allergic to everything?
• March 30, 2018
  LYME SCI: More about healing from mast cell activation syndrome
• March 24, 2018
  LYME SCI: The agony of mast cell activation syndrome (MCAS)
• March 6, 2018
  LYME SCI: MCAS, when the immune system goes haywire
• February 14, 2018
  LYME SCI: B. miyamotoi has been in California ticks for a long time
• February 5, 2018
  LYME SCI: Using the lessons of cancer to target Lyme disease
• January 12, 2018
  LYME SCI: Developing new tests to identify ALL bacteria in ticks
• December 8, 2017
  LYME SCI: Please, Santa, a few requests for the Lyme community….
• November 15, 2017
  LYME SCI: My live-tweets from Day One of ILADS 2017
• October 27, 2017
  LYME SCI: Might essential oils cure Lyme disease? A tantalizing premise
• October 18, 2017
  LYME SCI: Zoonotic diseases spread from animals to people
• October 9, 2017
  LYME SCI: Is it fibromyalgia–or Lyme disease?
• September 19, 2017
  LYME SCI: What’s the story about stevia?
• September 11, 2017
  LYME SCI: The dangerous link between Lyme disease and teen suicide
• September 6, 2017
  LYME SCI: Do sleeper cells hold key to “turning off” Borrelia?
• August 29, 2017
  LYME SCI: Re-cap of New York’s Lyme disease hearing
• August 17, 2017
  LYME SCI: Powassan more prevalent than previously thought
• August 9, 2017
  LYME SCI: My daughter tested positive for HIV at age 14
• July 31, 2017
  LYME SCI: The dreaded Jarisch-Herxheimer reaction
• July 17, 2017
  LYME SCI: Dealing with Lyme disease and mold illness at the same time
• July 10, 2017
  LYME SCI: Dog maps provide important clue to human disease risk
• June 29, 2017
  LYME SCI: Tick-borne Powassan virus can be deadly
• June 20, 2017
  LYME SCI: Anaplasmosis, the “anti-freeze” co-infection
• June 5, 2017
  LYMESCI: Ehrlichiosis — The Tick-Borne Disease No One Has Heard Of
• May 18, 2017
  LYME SCI: A closer look at rickettsia infections
• May 1, 2017
  LYME SCI: Tick-borne co-infections are the rule, not the exception
• April 17, 2017
  LYME SCI: Getting a Lyme Awareness proclamation in under an hour
• March 20, 2017
  LYME SCI: Babesia and the blood supply
• January 23, 2017
  LYME SCI: Why persister cells matter with Lyme disease
• January 13, 2017
  LYME SCI: Analysis shows standard Lyme testing is highly inaccurate
• December 13, 2016
  LYME SCI: Filling my mind with Lyme knowledge at ILADS 2016