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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 »

Rolling Stone magazine, June 20, 2017: by Winona Dimeo-Ediger In 2004, Kelly Osbourne was bitten by a tick. Her dad burned it off with a match and that, she thought, was the end of that. But in the years that followed, she suffered from persistent body aches, headaches, stomach... Read More »

On June 23, 2017, our CEO, Lorraine Johnson, JD, MBA joined Robert Herriman, MPH on the Outbreak News This Week Radio Show to discuss the scientific and ethical issues surrounding the CDC’s recent Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) on the use of IV antibiotics for... Read More »

On June 17, 2017, David Michael Conner of the Huffington Post published a long message to the editors of the Washington Post, objecting to their recent article about Lyme disease and the CDC.  Conner states in part: Your publication, the Washington Post, on June 15 published an... Read More »

The CDC’s June 15 article in MMWR, which slams “chronic Lyme” treatments—and by extension, Lyme patients and the doctors who treat them—continues to draw sharp responses from the Lyme disease community. ILADS physician Raphael Stricker, MD, and his frequent co-author,... 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 »

This week, CDC employees published an article about five patients who had “adverse effects” after undergoing “unproven” treatments for Lyme disease. What they failed to disclose, however, is that their report was based on questionable research conducted by the CDC–research... 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 »

Press release from the University of Guelph (Ontario, Canada), June 14, 2017: Lyme disease cut short the life of Magnotta Winery co-founder Gabe Magnotta. Now the foundation created in his name has given $1.4 million to the University of Guelph to help prevent and fight the... Read More »