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Dr. Raphael Stricker, a San Francisco internist and hematologist, is an internationally recognized leader in tick-borne disease diagnosis and treatment. He is also a board member of LymeDisease.org. Dr. Stricker recently delivered a recorded overview of tick-borne diseases to the... Read More »

By Patrick Varine, TribLive.com State agriculture officials have had it with Japanese barberry. After considering it previously in 2018, Pennsylvania officials have added the invasive shrub to their list of noxious weeds, and merchants will not be permitted to sell it by the fall... Read More »

Savannah Morning News November 11, 2021 By Christopher Berinato Sandflies are pesky little biters and mosquitoes can make the outdoors absolutely miserable, but no blood-sucking parasite in the South is as troublesome or tenacious as a tick. …Most people would rather avoid... Read More »

The Lyme Disease Tissue Collection Program is a collaborative initiative of the Lyme Disease Biobank (LDB), National Disease Research Interchange (NDRI), and MyLymeData Patient Registry. The program collects surgical and postmortem tissue samples and detailed information from... Read More »

Mothers Against Lyme, a group of advocates concerned about the impact of Lyme disease and its co-infections on pregnant women, children and families, is calling for retraction of a statement in the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA), American Academy of Neurology... Read More »

Melissa Wright is the Director of Patient Engagement & Outreach for LymeDisease.org and Project Manager of MyLymeData. She spoke at the recent Tick-borne Disease Diagnostics online event sponsored by Invisible International. Melissa used information from MyLymeData to... Read More »

Invisible International is a group of healthcare providers and scientists working to help solve the challenges of tick-borne diseases. On October 30, the group held an online event called The State of Tick-Borne Illness Diagnostics: Learn, Engage, Accelerate.... 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... Read More »

from the Lyme Disease Association website: In a recently published review article,* authors provide a comprehensive summary of treatment options for pregnant patients with less common bacterial, fungal, and viral infections, including several tick-borne diseases (Lyme disease,... Read More »