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From the Hartford Courant, March 27, 2017: By Edmund H. Mahony The state Supreme Court has joined an unusual — and unusually costly — $41.7 million negligence case that is likely to determine how, or even if, schools and other organizations operate youth programs. The case turns... Read More »

Recently, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette wrote a news story about tick-borne diseases in their state, which was distributed through a service called Pressreader. Dr. Richard Horowitz, a leading expert in treating tick-borne diseases, takes issue with many of the statements made in... Read More »

Governor Terry Branstad has signed into law a bill to permit more aggressive treatment of Lyme disease than previously allowed by the Iowa Board of Medicine. The bill states: A person licensed by a board under this subtitle shall not be subject to discipline under this chapter or... Read More »

Television interview with LymeDisease.org’s Dorothy Leland. KXTV (ABC10) Sacramento, CA, March 15, 2017: By Frances Wang On Friday, the Lyme Disease Advisory Committee Meeting (LDAC) held a presentation in Sacramento, along with the California Department of Public Health (CDPH).... Read More »

MyLymeData2017: Overcoming Lyme Disease will present the results from the first national large-scale longitudinal study of patients with Lyme disease ever conducted. The patient education conference will be held April 8 in San Ramon, California, and will also include... Read More »

National Public Radio, March 11, 2017: By Michaeleen Doucleff and Jane Greenhalgh It all started in the shower. Tucker Lane looked down, and there they were. “Two ticks, on my right hip, directly next to each other,” he says. At the time, Lane didn’t think much... Read More »

Researchers at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) are calling on citizen scientists to help them get a clearer picture of what kinds of ticks inhabit different parts of Arkansas and what pathogens they carry. You can collect ticks yourself and send them to the... Read More »

National Public Radio, March 6, 2017 by Michaeleen Doucleff & Jane Greenhalgh Last summer Felicia Keesing returned from a long trip and found that her home in upstate New York had been subjected to an invasion. Rick Ostfeld and Felicia Keesing have been studying Lyme disease... Read More »

Huffington Post, March 3, 2017 by Mary Beth Pfeiffer The top doctor in Sweden for treatment of advanced Lyme disease has been suspended from practicing medicine, leaving hundreds of patients without care in a country with a large and growing problem of tick-borne disease. The... Read More »