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“A Celebration of a Life Well-lived for Neil Spector, MD” will be shared via Facebook Live on Saturday, July 18, 6-7:30 pm, Eastern Time. The virtual event is open to anyone who cares to attend. Afterwards, the video will be posted to Facebook and YouTube, for people... Read More »

The federal Tick-Borne Disease Working Group met online on July 8. Panel members continued to discuss what should be included in the group’s upcoming Report to Congress. LymeDisease.org’s Lonnie Marcum live-tweeted the event. Here’s her take on what transpired. Read More »

USA Today, June 22, 2020 by Isabel Rose and Dana Parish With overlapping symptoms and a ferocious tick season already upon us, we’re in for a confusing — and dangerous — summer. In mid-March, shortly after coronavirus quarantine rules went into effect in New York, sportscaster... Read More »

June 17, 2020 by Carrie Arnold As a Lyme patient, Jennifer Crystal has a lifetime of experience dealing with severe illness. So when the 42-year-old writer and patient advocate came down with what appeared to be a mild case of food poisoning in early March, she cancelled her... Read More »

We have just heard the heartbreaking news that Dr. Neil Spector has died. Many in the Lyme community know him as the author of “Gone in a Heartbeat: A Physician’s Search for True Healing.” In it, he tells the story of how undiagnosed Lyme disease caused so much... Read More »

By Dr. Richard Horowitz I gave a talk to the Academy of Nutritional Medicine (AONM) in London on COVID-19 two days ago. This is an up-to-date review of the literature on COVID-19, focusing on prevention, diagnosis and treatment. I discuss during this talk details of the two... Read More »

The next online meeting of the federal Tick-Borne Disease Working Group will be July 8, from 9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Eastern Time. The following information is from the Department of Health and Human Services website: For this meeting, the TBDWG will review the draft 2020 report... Read More »

by Jory Brinkerhoff, University of Richmond Summer is field season for ecologists like me, a time when my colleagues, students and I go out into fields and woods in search of ticks to study the patterns and processes that allow disease-causing microbes – primarily bacteria and... Read More »

The May 25, 2020 issue of the Canadian Medical Association Journal, CMAJ, has three articles related to Lyme disease that are well worth your time. The publication is open access, available for anybody to read. Fatal Lyme carditis presenting as fluctuating high-grade... Read More »