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Press release, March 17, 2016 DOVER – Noting that Delaware had the sixth-highest incidence of Lyme disease in the United States in 2013, House Speaker Pete Schwartzkopf and Sen. Ernie Lopez filed two bills Wednesday recommended by a task force he co-chaired to prevent the spread... Read More »

This is one of a series of guest blogs by people who have enrolled in MyLymeData. by Dana Parish A July 2014 wedding on Long Beach Island, New Jersey was the start of my nightmare. It was a beautiful weekend filled with love for two of our dearest friends who were, after 14 years... Read More »

Press release, March 14, 2016: Lyme Disease Association, Inc. (LDA) President Pat Smith has been appointed to the Fiscal Year 2016 (FY16) Programmatic Panel for the Tick-Borne Disease Research Program (TBDRP), a new program in the Department of Defense’s (DoD) Office of... Read More »

Student filmmakers from SUNY Broome Community College in New York explore the impact of Lyme disease in their local area.   Read More »

The following Lyme education events are scheduled in the coming months. Contact individual organizations for details.     April 30, Saturday. Midcoast Lyme Disease Support & Education Conference. Wiscasset, Maine. Keynote speaker: Dr. Dan Cameron, immediate past... Read More »

  In an op-ed piece in a Connecticut newspaper, two scientists from the Global Lyme Alliance call for more NIH funding for Lyme disease research.      Hartford Courant, March 6, 2016 It’s now 35 years since a corkscrew-shaped bacterium was identified as the... Read More »

Los Angeles, February 23 — LymeDisease.org, the leading research advocacy organization for Lyme disease, announced today that Lorraine Johnson, chief executive officer, has been invited by the White House to participate in the upcoming Precision Medicine Initiative Summit on... Read More »

HEALTH NEWS FROM NPR February 22, 2016   As public health officials struggle to contain the Zika virus, science writer Sonia Shah tells Fresh Air’s Dave Davies that epidemiologists are bracing themselves for what has been called the next “Big One” — a... Read More »

Press Release February 23, 2016 WEST HAVEN, CONN. – Many of the 300,000 patients who contract Lyme disease each year know that curing it isn’t easy. Often, it seems to recur as soon as the antibiotics are discontinued, and doctors are reluctant to offer more and more rounds of... Read More »