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CNBC News September 2, 2018 One-fifth of adults in the U.S. have chronic pain, according to a new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Researchers found in both categories, prevalence was higher for women, older adults, previously but not currently employed... Read More »

Fox5 NY continued its groundbreaking series “Lyme and Reason” with the third in the series of reports called–“Battles and Breakthroughs Against Lyme Disease”.  In addition, the TV station supplemented its coverage with a Facebook Live interview... Read More »

Singer Avril Lavigne has announced her return to music, some five years after the release of her last album. The Canadian pop-rock artist, 33, has explained in searing detail the health problems that kept her away from the limelight for so long. In an open letter to he... Read More »

Fox5NY presents an in-depth look at the progress being made in Lyme disease research, legislation and testing in a special entitled Lyme and Reason: Battles and Breakthroughs Against Lyme Disease.  It features journalist Mary Beth Pfeiffer, Lyme Disease Association President Pat... Read More »

Facebook member Karen Wise raised $1,000 for LymeDisease.org, in honor of her high school friend Joni, who recently died after a years-long battle with Lyme disease. Julia Alexandra raised $800 in honor of two of her dearest friends, Jess and Jake, who are currently fighting... Read More »

Press Release:  August 27, 2018 Schumer: Funding Increase For CDC To Fight Lyme Disease Will Help Protect Against Tick-Borne Illnesses U.S. Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer today announced that the U.S. Senate has passed his amendment to the upcoming Health and Human... Read More »

The Rotary Club of Glens Falls, New York, has bestowed the Citizen of the Year award to Holly Ahern and Christina Fisk. The women are co-founders of the Lyme Action Network, a nationally recognized advocacy group. Ahern is an award-winning professor of microbiology at SUNY... Read More »

NBC News, August 15, 2018: by Maggie Fox A new kind of tick is causing an epidemic of Rocky Mountain spotted fever in Mexico, and it’s threatening to spread to the U.S., researchers said Wednesday. Rocky Mountain spotted fever is already dangerous, and the new carrier is more... Read More »

Center for Public Integrity, August 6, 2018 by Kristen Lombardi and Fatima Bhojani The CDC says rising temperatures are partly to blame for the tripling of mosquito-, tick- and flea-borne illnesses from 2004 to 2016, but Maine’s governor, a climate skeptic, is tying health... Read More »