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Because Massachusetts residents are being asked to contact legislative committee members, we cannot use our Voter Voter system of contacting lawmakers. (Voter Voice only works for people contacting their own representatives, not those from other districts.) Therefore, contacting... Read More »

From the University of Michigan: More than a billion times a year, doctors and nurses insert tiny tubes into the veins of American hospital patients, so they can deliver lifesaving medicines, give fluids and nutrition, monitor key vital signs, and help patients with conditions... Read More »

Many of you have already used our Voter Voice system to contact your senators about co-sponsoring Senate Bill 1503, the bipartisan Lyme and Tick-Borne Disease Prevention, Education and Research Act of 2015, introduced by Senators Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT).... Read More »

From the Herald News in Nova Scotia, Sept. 4, 2015. By Donna Lugar I would like to respond to the Sept. 3 article titled “False-positive Lyme tests concern researcher,”  about concerns expressed by Dr. Dan Gregson, an infectious disease consultant at the University of Calgary who... Read More »

From Forbes. Sept. 4, 2015 By Dr. Judy Stone How much heart involvement is there with Lyme? Based on cases submitted to the CDC, only 1.1% of patients had carditis. I suspect the real number is substantially higher, given that I’ve seen several patients with it and based on other... Read More »

by Kris Newby, Sept. 2, 2015 Meet Dan Salkeld, PhD, a disease ecologist and friend, shown here looking for ticks on a wood rat from the San Francisco Bay Area. According to Popular Science, he has one of the worst jobs in science: tick collecting. But thanks to the nitpicky... Read More »

From National Geographic, Aug. 31, 2015: by Maryn McKenna I spent most of last week at the International Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases, a 1,500-person meeting of epidemiologists, physicians and microbiologists that is co-sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control... Read More »

San Francisco Chronicle, August 26, 2015 By Victoria Colliver Ticks, those disease-spreading little bloodsuckers, are more prevalent in Bay Area open space and redwood forests than previously thought. A new Stanford study shows the tiny arachnids are found in more diverse... Read More »

Senators Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) have introduced the bipartisan Lyme and Tick-Borne Disease Prevention, Education and Research Act of 2015 (S. 1503). It may either end up as a stand-alone bill, or it might be included in a larger Senate bill, similar to... Read More »