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  LymeDisease.org will soon launch a patient-powered research project called MyLymeData. It promises to be the largest study of chronic Lyme patients ever. Our latest issue of The Lyme Times explains all about it. If you are a member of LymeDisease.org, this is on its way to... Read More »

LymeDisease.org CEO Lorraine Johnson has been selected to participate in a White House forum hosted by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and Domestic Policy Council, “Open Science and Innovation: Of the People, By the People, For the People,”... Read More »

  Vineyard Gazette, Massachusetts, Sept. 24, 2015: By Steve Myrick The cost of doxycycline, an antibiotic routinely prescribed for treatment of Lyme disease, has skyrocketed in recent months, causing consternation among Island medical and veterinary providers as well as... Read More »

  Stanford University School of Medicine scientists successfully defeated a dangerous intestinal pathogen, Clostridium difficile, with a drug targeting its toxins rather than its life. By not aiming to kill the pathogen with antibiotics, scientists were able to avoid wiping... Read More »

  From the Telegraph (UK), Sept. 22, 2015 By Sophie Jamieson The billionaire founder of Phones4U has revealed that his whole family have been struck down by the potentially deadly Lyme disease. Earlier this month John Caudwell told the Telegraph of his 20-year-old s... Read More »

MedX, a huge medical conference held at Stanford University every year, focuses on the future of healthcare. It spans several days and includes dozens of speakers, whose talks are transmitted around the world via live streaming video and social media. Organizers say that MedX... Read More »

From ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation), Sept. 17, 2015: by John Donegan The Royal College of Pathologists (RCPA) have stated Lyme disease has never been transmitted by ticks in Australia, despite the Lyme Disease Association of Australia claims it represented more... Read More »

From NPR, Sept. 16, 2015 By Michaeleen Doucleff It’s called the Heartland virus disease. Since it was first detected in 2009, there have been only nine reported cases in the Midwest, including two deaths. So scientists thought the Heartland virus was limited to a small... Read More »

  Press release: WESTPORT, Conn., Sept. 17, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — Balance Point Capital Partners (“Balance Point”), a private equity fund focused on providing debt and equity capital to lower middle market companies across the U.S. announced today its... Read More »