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Lindsay Keys is co-director of the Lyme documentary “The Quiet Epidemic. “ “Law and Order” actor Chris Meloni’s family has dealt with chronic Lyme disease for years. The two have teamed up to persuade Congress to devote more resources to Lyme... Read More »

The Steven & Alexandra Cohen Foundation, led by philanthropist Alex Cohen, has launched Phase 3 of the LymeX Diagnostics Prize through a fiscal sponsorship with the Digital Harbor Foundation. This phase invites six teams from Phase 2 to plan clinical performance studies for... Read More »

Understanding the effects of Lyme disease on the developing fetal brain is essential to ensure timely prenatal and postnatal treatments to protect the fetus and newborn. In response to this need, Children’s National Hospital in Washington D.C. is leading a pilot study to... Read More »

Last year, a six-year-old Arkansas boy had to be put into a medically induced coma–after a tick bite gave him ehrlichiosis. At that time, according to his mom, “He lost all motor skills, all function, he couldn’t speak.” He began to have daily seizures, some of which... Read More »

by Dr. Eric Gordon Every day, we work with patients with complex chronic illnesses. Each individual is a puzzle, with varying symptoms and overlapping medical concerns. We know how hard it is to have complex health issues and so much confusing information out there. To continue... Read More »

From the Center for Lyme Action: The Fiscal Year 2024 Appropriations process has finally been completed. Congress has passed the second consolidated appropriations package and the President signed it into law on Saturday, March 23. The package includes funding for the Department... Read More »

By Patty Shillington, UMass Amherst Researchers at the New England Regional Center of Vector-Borne Diseases at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have come up with a new, more accurate method for detecting in ticks the emerging Powassan virus, which can cause... Read More »

By Anne Trafton, MIT News Lyme disease, a bacterial infection transmitted by ticks, affects nearly half a million people in the United States every year. In most cases, antibiotics effectively clear the infection, but for some patients, symptoms linger for months or years.... Read More »

The COVID-19 virus can persist in the blood and tissue of patients for more than a year after the acute phase of the illness has ended, according to new research from University of California, San Francisco that offers potential clues to why some people develop long COVID. The... Read More »