Focus – Opinions and Features

By Cherie Kephart On tax day, April 15, 2004, when most of the United States was rushing to the post office before the tax deadline, I was being rushed to the hospital. At 32 years old, I had collapsed in my shower, crawled to the phone, and called for help. Until that day, I was... 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 »

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 »

By Jackie Zulli On a recent Saturday morning, an hour before the crack of dawn, my 16-year-old son, Andrew and his fishing buddy/teammate climbed into a bass boat. Driven by his father, they crossed the dark waters of Raystown Lake, heading to the bass fishing high school state... Read More »

By Thaiadora Katsos Dorow As a young adult, I was enthusiastic, ambitious, active, healthy, joyful. I was in great physical shape, I had a busy social calendar, and I enjoyed every moment of every day. In the summers, I climbed the highest dunes to the beach, ran through the... Read More »

By Jacquelyn Golan Two years ago, if you had asked me to tell you about myself, it would have gone something like this: I am 30 years old. I co-own an event design company. I have a husband who is a successful songwriter and the love of my life. I have a pug named Peter who I... Read More »

By Dr. Elena Frid The summer is officially behind us and the school year is back in full swing. As we put the long summer days and warm summer nights behind us and get back in the academic saddle, I want to address some symptoms that you might not realize can be related to Lyme... Read More »

  By Phyllis Mervine A research group led by Gabriele Margos, PhD, a German biologist, has proposed naming a recently identified species in the genus Borrelia after University of California, Berkeley entomologist Robert Lane for his “outstanding contributions to Borrelia and... Read More »

By Sophia Galpin Allodynia is pain produced by a non-painful stimulus–something that shouldn’t normally cause you pain such as wind or light touch. Usually, when you hurt yourself, whether it be from a burn on a hot oven or if you fall over and scrape your knee, your brain... Read More »