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Bay Area Lyme Foundation, a national organization funding research to make Lyme disease easy to diagnose and simple to cure, announces the addition of the Lyme Disease Tissue Collection Program to its Lyme Disease Biobank, which currently accepts blood samples. The expansion of... Read More »

Lyme disease is the most common tick-borne disease in North America and its incidence has risen sharply in the last decade. Since its progression depends on environmental factors, increases in daily temperatures, a manifestation of climate change, might be contributing to a rise... Read More »

The Fall issue of The Lyme Times is now available online to current members of Lymedisease.org. Some of the highlights of this issue include: Lyme Disease Has Been Found in All 50 States A Perfect Storm: More Ticks in More Places Which Lyme Disease Treatments Are More Effective... Read More »

Palo Alto, CA, October 30, 2018 – Bartonella Multi-Species Western Blots and Bartonella IgX Spot offer increased sensitivity, improved coverage for multiple species and strains, and quick results with a single blood draw IGeneX is excited to announce the availability of... Read More »

A new study of Lyme disease in Canada suggests that government statistics severely under-detect and under-report human cases of the illness in that country. C0-authored by Mount Allison University biology professor Vett Lloyd and Ralph Hawkins, MD, clinical associate professor at... Read More »

I’m excited to report that the first study using information from MyLymeData has just been published in the medical journal Healthcare. Using patient-reported outcome data from 3,900 people enrolled in MyLymeData, we looked at how individual patients vary in their response to... Read More »

The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and the Government of Canada has announced a $4 million investment in a new multidisciplinary research network for Lyme disease. It’s stated goal is to bring together scientists, clinicians, and patients to address gaps in... Read More »

Yolanda Hadid–the former model and reality TV star whose battle with Lyme disease has been widely followed in the Lyme community–now says her “year of remission” is over. She made the disclosure during a speech at October 11’s Global Lyme Alliance... Read More »

This week, a character on the TV soap opera “General Hospital” was told by his doctor he has Lyme disease. The patient said, “I don’t understand. My Lyme disease test came back negative.” The doctor replied: “With Lyme disease, often the first... Read More »