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A message from New York Lyme advocate Jill Auerbach: The New York State Budget is now in negotiation and we in the Lyme community need to be vocal and visible, RIGHT NOW! Also, PLEASE SHARE this with all others in NYS who have tick-borne disease. WHAT TO DO This is easy to do and... Read More »

Dr. Charles Ray Jones is the world’s leading pediatric Lyme specialist. He has treated well over 15,000 children from around the globe, over a period of more than four decades. He has helped countless more, by training doctors and sharing his vast knowledge at conferences... Read More »

The Winter 2019 issue of the Lyme Times offers a look at Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick, by Maya Dusenbury. Throughout the book, Dussenbury discusses medical gender bias in the context of such topics as... Read More »

With countless New Yorkers suffering the devastating effects of Lyme and tick-borne diseases (TBDs), Senator Sue Serino today called on Albany’s leaders to make the issue a priority and include funding for research, education and prevention initiatives in this year’s State... Read More »

by Marie Brown Lyme Disease Association of Australia Examination of one hundred blood samples from Australian patients suggests that many have been exposed to Lyme disease, tick-borne relapsing fever, or both. The results, which have not yet been published in a scientific... Read More »

By Mary Beth Pfeiffer A federal lawsuit that may just validate the pain of thousands of Lyme disease patients – and the flaws in prevailing tests and treatments — is moving ahead in a Texas courthouse, despite attempts to kill it. The lawsuit’s progress is a big development... Read More »

Pat Smith, president of the Lyme Disease Association, discusses ticks, the federal Tick-Borne Disease Working Group’s recent report and proposed legislation regarding Lyme disease. She’s interviewed by journalist Larry Mendte, of television station WJLP’s... Read More »

Advocates for Lyme disease patients are calling on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to withdraw its endorsement of single-dose antibiotic prophylaxis for prevention of Lyme disease after a tick bite. A key limitation of the recommendation is that it is based... Read More »

As we reported recently, the chief medical officer for the province of Nova Scotia has raised the ire of Canada’s Lyme community. Dr. Robert Strang retweeted a posting that described chronic Lyme patients as members of a “cult” dealing in “pseudoscience.” Since then,... Read More »