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News Center Maine, an NBC affiliate in Portland, provides regular coverage of issues related to Lyme and other tick-borne diseases. This week, the TV news show examined the alternative treatment of cold laser therapy. Click below to see Vivien Leigh’s report. Read More »

by Kris Newby Communications Director, Invisible International Monica Embers, PhD, director of the vector-borne disease research center at Tulane University School of Medicine, summarizes evidence that suggests that Lyme bacteria can survive long after standard treatment... Read More »

LymeDisease.org’s Lonnie Marcum live-tweeted the August 26 meeting of the Tick-Borne Disease Working Group. Look below for her summary of what happened. (Slide the bar on the right to advance the images.) Read More »

The US Department of Health and Human Services today installed what is likely to be the last panel of the federal Tick-Borne Disease Working Group. The co-chairs of the 2021-2022 panel are Holiday Goodreau, Executive Director of the LivLyme Foundation, and Dr. Linden Hu,... Read More »

Columbia Magazine (Columbia University in New York City) August 19, 2021 By David J. Craig …With a $16 million gift from the Steven and Alexandra Cohen Foundation, the group, led by Brian Fallon, a professor of psychiatry at Columbia University Irving Medical Center (CUIMC)... Read More »

NewYorker.com, August 19, 2021 by Sue Halpern In May, an article with the unprepossessing title “Detecting Borrelia Spirochetes: A Case Study with Validation Among Autopsy Specimens” was published in the medical journal Frontiers in Neurology. The deceased person in question was... Read More »

US News and World Report, August 17, 2021 by Steven Reinberg Lyme disease can exact a significant mental toll as well as a physical one on its sufferers, a new study confirms. Patients hospitalized for Lyme disease had a 28% higher incidence of mental disorders and were twice as... Read More »

Hartford Courant, August 16, 2021 By Jesse Leavenworth State scientist Goudarz Molaei pulled a square of cloth through brush and grass on the Stratford coast Friday, then stopped and pointed to a crawling smear of larvae on the white fabric. The tiny arachnids were either Gulf... Read More »

A new study shows that herbal medicines have potent activity in test tubes compared to pharmaceuticals commonly prescribed for the treatment of bartonellosis. Bartonellosis is a collection of emerging infectious diseases, including cat scratch disease, trench fever, Carrion’s... Read More »