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The federal Tick-Borne Disease Working group continued work on its upcoming Report to Congress. LymeDisease.org’s Lonnie Marcum live-tweeted the meetings. Scroll down for her play-by-play account of Day 2’s proceedings. (Click here for Day 1’s summary.) Read More »

The federal Tick-Borne Disease Working Group met online to finalize details of its upcoming Report to Congress. LymeDisease.org’s Lonnie Marcum live-tweeted the proceedings. Scroll down to see what happened on Oct. 4. Click here to see Day 2’s summary.   Read More »

“The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness, by Meghan O’Rourke, has been named a finalist for the National Book Award for non-fiction. It draws from her experience living with Lyme and other chronic illnesses and from interviews with doctors, public health experts and... Read More »

The Center for Lyme Action (CLA), a nonprofit based in Washington, D.C., lobbies on behalf of the Lyme community. Its goal is to expand federal funding for Lyme disease and other tick-borne illnesses. Here’s CLA’s latest message about what’s happening in Congress. Dear Lyme... Read More »

The federal Tick-Borne Disease Working Group still has important ground to cover before it closes down at the end of 2022. The panel next meets on October 4 and 5. The public can watch online. During this meeting, the TBDWG will review updates to the draft chapters, review... Read More »

Maine is on track to break records for several tick-borne diseases this year. In a news release this week, the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention reported more than 1,900 cases of Lyme disease so far in 2022. This compares to about 1,500 last year. The agency also... Read More »

From the Health and Human Services website: By Kristen Honey, PhD, PMP, and Daniel Desautels The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Steven & Alexandra Cohen Foundation (Cohen Foundation) has announced that the LymeX Diagnostics Prize received 52 Phase 1... Read More »

By Joshua Stewart Georgia Tech A single drop of blood from a finger prick. A simple electronic chip. And a smartphone readout of test results that could diagnose a Covid-19 infection or others like HIV or Lyme disease. It sounds a bit like science fiction, like the beginnings of... Read More »

By Meghan Holohan Today.com When Meghan Bradshaw began fainting and experiencing joint pain, she visited many doctors. At first, they suspected that she might have a vitamin D deficiency or that she was anemic. By her early 20s, her symptoms became “debilitating” and she... Read More »