Focus – Opinions and Features

The Disabled American Veterans, or DAV, is chartered by the United States Congress. The organization provides various kinds of assistance to disabled military veterans and their families and currently has nearly 1.3 million members.  Ruben Lee Sims, who lives in Southern... Read More »

Dr. Laurie Radovsky is a family physician in St. Paul, MN. Board-certified in family medicine, she is a member of the Academy of Integrative Health and Medicine and the International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society.  By Laurie Radovsky, MD. MYTH: You can only have Lyme... Read More »

By Lori Dennis, MA Every day, in doctors’ offices across the United States, Canada, the UK, Ireland, Amsterdam, Australia, Sweden—in 80 countries around the world—chronic Lyme disease sufferers are told that their debilitating, destructive, multi-systemic illness is nothing more... Read More »

Guest post by Dr. Jane Marke, MD Patients dealing with Lyme suffer neuro-psychiatric complications that are related directly to the illness, as well as to the emotional challenges and lack of support which often accompany infection with this insidious bacteria. Patients with Lyme... Read More »

By Sherrill Franklin  Almost 40 years have passed since the Lyme disease bacterium was identified, yet there are still no reliable diagnostics and no definitive treatments, especially for those with persistent symptoms. While Lyme disease research funding has always languished... Read More »

Dr. Elena Frid, who recently spoke at the ILADS conference in Philadelphia, shares observations about neurological presentations of Lyme disease. After finishing my training in Neurology and Clinical Neurophysiology, I opened a private neurology practice in New York City in 2011.... Read More »

The following report was filed by members of the Texas Lyme Disease Association and the North Texas Lyme Support Group. By Lisa Todd Reed and Joy Sablatura Rockwell On Sunday October 23, 2016, Lyme disease patients and advocates gathered at Barnes and Noble in Dallas, Texas for a... Read More »

A recent report by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention called attention to the risks of Bartonella infections–often called Cat Scratch Disease–which can be transmitted by cat scratches, fleas and ticks. An article in the Philly Voice minimized the... Read More »

by Stephanie Tait “Does your child have any special challenges I should be aware of?” Two tiny blank lines staring at me, enough for maybe three sentences if I wrote very narrowly. Yes, Aidan is on the autism spectrum, and has a variety of specific learning challenges in the... Read More »