Focus – Opinions and Features

Caroline Ciocca delivered the following public comment to the federal Tick-Borne Disease Working Group on April 27. My name is Caroline and I am 25 years old. I grew up in Pennsylvania and moved to North Carolina after graduating from Temple University with a degree in Risk... Read More »

By Kris Newby, Invisible International The World Health Organization (WHO) has added 15 new medical diagnostic codes for Lyme disease, which replaced four older codes and officially went into effect on January 1, 2022. Over time, these codes will provide patients with more... Read More »

By Vicki Novinsky, aka “Miss Diagnoses” How many times have you been asked whether you have tried celery juice? What about kale/coconut oil/turmeric/yoga/colonics/algae/walking barefoot? I actually do eat a lot of kale, but somehow it hasn’t made me better all by... Read More »

By Fred Diamond Can you be a successful business owner in a competitive and stressful industry while dealing with chronic Lyme disease? I regularly interview high-achieving sales and business leaders around the world for my Sales Game Changers Podcast. When I decided to learn... Read More »

By Kris Newby, Invisible International It’s easy to dwell on the negative with Lyme disease. Forty-seven years after discovery of the first case cluster in Lyme, Connecticut, there are still no reliable tests or effective vaccines on the market. Among those patients who are... Read More »

By Kris Newby, Invisible International In 2019, the late-great-science-writer Sharon Begley wrote an insightful article, “The maddening saga of how an Alzheimer’s ‘cabal’ thwarted progress toward a cure for decades.” Begley’s reporting described how a powerful group of... Read More »

By Meg Huber For six and a half years of my life, I was in the exact same situation nearly weekly—sitting in a doctor’s office being asked to rate my pain using a scale from 1-10. The numbers were abstract while my pain, though ever-changing, was a concrete reality. How could I... Read More »

By Debbie Kimberg For years, I had no idea that I was infected with Lyme disease and related illnesses. There was nothing obvious, like pain or chronic fatigue. Instead, my symptoms were mild and crept up on me insidiously over my lifetime: anxiety, social anxiety, irritability,... Read More »

By Dr. Rosalie Greenberg As I was looking at a recent edition of the New Jersey Star Ledger,  I was struck by a lengthy article entitled, “Saving Charlie.”(1) Reporter Adam Clark chronicled the struggles of a suicidal teenager and his family’s ongoing efforts to get him proper... Read More »