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Lymedisease.org CEO, Lorraine Johnson was recently interviewed about MyLymeData by reporter Richard Knox of WBUR-Boston, an NPR affiliate, for an article about Big Data and Lyme disease. Along with Johnson, John Aucott, MD, director of the Lyme Disease Clinical Research Center at... Read More »

  Press release, February 13, 2016: Over the past 40 years, little has been learned about how to prevent, diagnose and effectively treat one of the most complex infectious diseases in the country — chronic Lyme disease. But now, big data tools like patient registries... Read More »

  Press release from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Feb. 12, 2016: When it comes to early diagnosis of Lyme disease, the insidious tick-borne illness that afflicts about 300,000 Americans annually, finding the proverbial needle in the haystack... Read More »

The National Guidelines Clearinghouse–a federal database that provides treatment information to health care professionals and insurance companies–has removed the IDSA Lyme disease treatment guidelines from its website recently. This means that the only Lyme disease... Read More »

From Purdue University, February 9, 2016 WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – An international team of scientists led by Purdue University has sequenced the genome of the tick that transmits Lyme disease, the most common vector-borne illness in North America. The decadelong project,... Read More »

On February 13, LymeDisease.org CEO Lorraine Johnson will give a speech at the annual conference of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), in Washington DC. The AAAS is the world’s largest general scientific society and publishes the prestigious... Read More »

  Press release from the Mayo Clinic February 5, 2016: by April Josselyn Mayo Clinic researchers, in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and health officials from Minnesota, North Dakota and Wisconsin, have discovered a new bacterial... Read More »

From Wisconsin Public Radio, Feb. 3, 2016 by Shamane Mills Lawmakers heard emotional stories of how people’s lives have been affected by Lyme disease at a hearing Wednesday for a bill supporters say would improve diagnosis and treatment of the tick-borne illness. Susan... Read More »

On February 1, 2016, Lorraine Johnson, CEO of LymeDisease.org, explained details of the MyLymeData project on radio station KZYX. Listen to the interview here. Read More »