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You can now watch the video replay of the recent National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine workshop on “long haul” illnesses such as long COVID, persistent Lyme disease, multiple sclerosis and ME/CFS. Toward a Common Research Agenda in... Read More »

Women with Lyme disease take longer to get diagnosed, have more severe symptoms and experience higher rates of disability when compared to men. They may also be more likely to develop persistent Lyme disease. Those are among the findings of a recent study that analyzed... Read More »

By Maddie Burakoff, AP Science Hungry ticks have some slick tricks. They can zoom through the air using static electricity to latch onto people, pets and other animals, new research shows. Humans and animals naturally pick up static charges as they go about their days. And those... Read More »

Lyme Disease: The Musical (Original Cast Recording) will be released on music streaming platforms on July 28. It is the musical companion to the original dark comedy Lyme Disease: The Musical, which premiered at the Hollywood Fringe Festival in Los Angeles in June 2022. The... Read More »

From the makers of The Quiet Epidemic: The Quiet Epidemic‘s film festival circuit has wrapped up with the ReelAbilities Film Festival in New York City, where our co-directors received an award for directing the film. Our producer Chris Hegedus and subjects Julia and Enrico... Read More »

Meghan O’Rourke, author of “The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness,” will speak at the National Academies’ workshop on long-haul diseases in Washington DC June 29-30. O’Rourke’s book, a finalist for the 2022 National Book Award, draws on her personal experience with... Read More »

by Jacquelyn Kauffman, Washington University in St. Louis On a cold spring morning, Washington University in St. Louis virologist Jacco Boon, PhD, and wildlife ecologist Solny Adalsteinsson, PhD, flap and drag a large white flag through a woodsy area on the western edge of St.... Read More »

by Washington State University Tick season is here, along with the increased danger of Lyme disease, and it turns out the tiny arachnids are even tougher than scientists previously thought. A recent study in Ecological Monographs shows blacklegged ticks (Ixodes scapularis) are... Read More »

Melissa Bell, of the Florida Lyme Disease Association, is among those interviewed in a recent TV news story about Lyme disease. She spoke about how difficult it was to get Lyme testing when her then-11 year old son first became ill. Reporter Renata Di Gregorio,  of First Coast... Read More »