Lyme Awareness

May is National Lyme Disease Awareness Month, a chance for Lyme patients, activists and educators to spread information on how to prevent Lyme and tick-borne diseases.  We’ve created a list of several things that you, your family, and friends, can do to help spread awareness.... Read More »

by Aviva Peltin Ableism is a term that was not even on my radar before 2010, when my health crashed. I guess that’s how it goes – you don’t realize the obstacles others experience until you’re facing them, too. Before 2010, if I were to contemplate disability, I would think about... Read More »

At a recent press conference in Ulster County, New York, US Senator Kirsten Gillibrand called on the Trump administration to implement Lyme disease-related provisions of the 21st Century Cures Act. Click here for more about that. At the event, Gillibrand also asked New York Lyme... Read More »

New York-based singer/songwriter Jesse Ruben’s career was once sidelined for two and a half years due to a debilitating case of Lyme disease. As he recently wrote on Facebook: “Sometimes I write songs because I want to, and sometimes I write songs because I have to.... Read More »

A response to this week’s CDC article on Lyme disease. By Patricia Smith, Lyme Disease Association, June 14, 2017:   The time has come when the public is entitled to know who in government or elsewhere is controlling the treatment of Lyme disease. 43 years into the... Read More »

Our thanks to Fox5NY, for creating this public service announcement about Lyme disease. “The Faces of Lyme” showcases the work of photographer Stephanie Michelle Vandagriff, who has at times taken pictures at LymeDisease.org events. (Most recently, at our MyLymeData... Read More »

“the little things” is a docudrama based on the life of Joseph Elone, a New York teenager who died from unrecognized Lyme disease in 2013.  Announcement from Lyme Action Network: “The little things” tells the story of what should have been a simple event —... Read More »

Announcement from the Lyme Disease Association: May is Lyme Disease Awareness Month.  Let’s get our Representatives in the US House of Representatives to sign up for the House Lyme Caucus. It is a bi-partisan group working together in Congress to take action on Lyme & other... Read More »

Facebook post by Dr. Richard Horowitz, May 11, 2017: I was in Washington D.C. yesterday with several Lyme advocates, including Bruce Fries, Ira Auerbach, Chris Przybyszewski (from US Biologix), Karen Sherill and Michael Turner (from Georgia Lyme). We also had Lindsay Keys and... Read More »