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Legislation to give Lyme sufferers insurance coverage for antibiotics, testing and doctor visits today unanimously passed the Illinois House. HB 0889, sponsored by Representative Dan Swanson, amends the Illinois Insurance Code and makes conforming changes in the Health... Read More »

WebMD, March 27, 2019: by Bara Vaida The CDC for the first time will be monitoring the nation’s tick population and the diseases the pests may be carrying. The effort comes as the number of people diagnosed with serious diseases caused by things like ticks, flea... Read More »

A Pennsylvania bill to require insurance coverage of Lyme disease treatment has passed the House Health Committee. It now moves on to the House floor. HB 629 would require health insurers to cover treatment plans for Lyme disease or related tick-borne illnesses, as prescribed by... Read More »

By Mary Beth Pfeiffer Patients who are suing over alleged denial of care for long-standing Lyme disease may have to submit to medical examination to prove their conditions, a federal judge ruled in a hearing in Texarkana, Texas, federal court. The ruling hits on a pivotal issue... Read More »

Advocates for Lyme disease patients have filed an “information quality request for correction” complaint that challenges the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) position on how frequently the bull’s-eye erythema migrans (EM) rash occurs in patients with Lyme... Read More »

By Tracy Peake, North Carolina State University In a new case study, researchers at North Carolina State University describe an adolescent human patient diagnosed with rapid onset schizophrenia who was found instead to have a Bartonella henselae infection. This study adds to the... Read More »

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 »