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A Lyme Disease Awareness Race Car design has been entered in the Toyota Sponsafier contest. The winning car will be featured at the 2011 NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race this summer, an opportunity for nationwide publicity for our cause. Help this car win by voting on-line. Read... Read More »

After a brief hiatus, Lyme-TAP (Testing Access Program) is back in operation with a new website. Lyme-TAP is a nationwide assistance program helping patients with financial hardship pay for Lyme-related diagnostic testing. Read More »

Four years ago, the producers of the Lyme documentary UNDER OUR SKIN submitted a Freedom of Information Act request asking for certain information related to Lyme disease. That request is still unanswered. Read what the filmmakers have to say about this. Read More »

Topics covered in this issue include:     Lyme in the Southeast   Patient Voices   When Lyme Shatters Your Family   Recap of 2010 Lyme Conferences   Lymebrain   Supporting the immune system   All members of CALDA receive the Lyme Times.... Read More »

Phyllis Mervine, founder and president of the California Lyme Disease Association, has been honored by the American Institute for Public Service for her advocacy work for Lyme patients. According to the Institute, Jefferson Award recipients "are ordinary people who do... Read More »

Many Lyme-awareness activities are planned for April 11-17, 2011, throughout the UK and Ireland. Read More »

Routine tick monitoring last week turned up a Pacific Coast tick infected with tularemia. Also known as rabbit fever, it's a serious bacterial infection which can be spread to humans via tick bite or through direct contact with infected animals. The Pacific Coast tick is... Read More »

The Tampa Tribune looks at how hard it is to get properly diagnosed with Lyme disease in Florida. "We're lepers," says one advocate. "We can't get treatment. We are the new HIV/AIDS patients and we are being ignored by physicians and if they do let us... Read More »

Earlier in the week, the Fayetteville Observer profiled the plight of a North Carolina soldier in a story headlined: "Mystery illness upends lives of soldier, family." Today, the paper updates that story with the news that man will seek "radical" treatment for... Read More »