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Heininger, founder of the Corning-Finger Lakes Lyme Disease Association in New York, died at home on September 29. When speaking of her decade of Lyme activism, she once said: “I don’t want anybody else to go through what I’ve been through. If I could just prevent one person from... Read More »

The entertainer asks People magazine not to say she's "battling" the disease, but rather "overcoming it." Read More »

Activists will gather outside the annual ID Week conference, to protest the IDSA's Lyme treatment guidelines. Read More »

Film subjects Jordan Fisher Smith and Mandy Hughes will join director Andy Wilson at showing of the Under Our Skin sequel. Read More »

The Connecticut State Capitol was the site of a symposium about new kinds of Lyme testing. Read More »

Activists are using the New York Times as a symbol for the media as a whole to bring attention to the general underreporting of the Lyme disease crisis. Read More »

For years, Congressman Smith has championed the cause of people suffering from Lyme disease. In this six-minute clip from C-Span, he forcefully expresses why the federal Lyme bill is so desperately needed. On Sept. 9, HR 4701 passed the House of Representatives. Now it moves to... Read More »

“The Lyme Altar: A People’s History of Symptoms, Sacrifice and Hope,” a new documentary, focuses on Lyme patients and the doctors who treat them. Read More »

HR 4701, a bill to prioritize federal research on Lyme and related diseases, passed the House by voice vote on August 9. This clip shows remarks from four Congressmen in support of the bill. Read More »