Quest Diagnostics and the CDC report different numbers of total Lyme disease cases.
By Lonnie Marcum
Citizen-scientists submitted blacklegged ticks — the kind that can carry Lyme disease — in 83 counties where they’d never previously been recorded.
By Lonnie Marcum
Lyme disease patients are often labeled as “hysterical” or “malingerers.”
By Lonnie Marcum
IGeneX, has developed two new Lyme disease tests capable of detecting multiple species of borrelia with sensitivity shown to be greater than 90%
By Lonnie Marcum
The story behind the lyrics is the physical and emotional toll of having a tick-borne disease.
By Dorothy Kupcha Leland
Prompt diagnosis and treatment of this condition can prevent unnecessary permanent pacemakers and further complications of Lyme disease.
By Lonnie Marcum
MyLymeData shows which treatments patients find most helpful and which ones have the most side effects.
By Lorraine Johnson, JD, MBA
A guide on the diagnosis and treatment of mast cell activation syndrome.
By Lonnie Marcum
Deanna Needell, professor of mathematics at UCLA, is finding new ways to fight Lyme disease.
By Dorothy Kupcha Leland
Let’s look at why tick bites are ignored in non-endemic areas.
By Dorothy Kupcha Leland
A review of the book Sick, written by Lyme disease patient Porochista Khakpour.
By Laura Darnell
An open letter calls for Netflix to remove its new series Afflicted, which portrays chronically ill ME/CFS patients as abnormal and strange.
By Phyllis Mervine
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