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The Lyme community is very concerned about how the federal Tick-Borne Disease Working Group (TBDWG) will approach the question of a Lyme vaccine in its upcoming report to Congress. The following written comments regarding the Lyme vaccine were recently submitted to the TBDWG by... Read More »

Vox.com, July 27, 2018: By German Lopez Voters in Oklahoma on Tuesday elected to legalize medical marijuana, which makes the state the 30th to allow the use of cannabis for medicinal purposes. Oklahoma State Question 788 allows individuals 18 and older to obtain a medical... Read More »

From the Health and Human Services website: The seventh meeting of the Tick-borne Disease Working Group will be held on July 24, 2018, from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. EDT. The Working Group will review and vote on the content of the five chapters that will be submitted into the... Read More »

Slate.com, June 27, 2018: by Maya Dusenbury and Julie Rehmeyer “A close look at the evidence suggests the controversial diagnosis should be taken more seriously, and that decades of sexism may be to blame for our collective dismissal.”   Porochista Khakpour’s new... Read More »

Scientific American, June 26, 2018: by Melinda Wenner Moyer Last August Tadhgh Rainey, division manager at the Hunterdon County Division of Public Health Services in Flemington, N.J., received an odd phone call. An assistant in a nearby building excitedly explained to him that a... Read More »

By Shona Curley Before Lyme, when something didn’t go my way, I stressed out. Like most healthy people, I was perfectly functional that way. I rushed my kids off to school, taught Pilates for eight hours, got home in time for dinner, dishes and bedtime – even if I was... Read More »

Stat News, June 25, 2018 by Andrew Joseph The Food and Drug Administration on Monday approved the country’s first drug derived from marijuana, a medication that treats two rare and devastating forms of epilepsy. The drug, GW Pharmaceuticals’ Epidiolex, is made of cannabidiol, or... Read More »

The CDC’s official count of approximately 30,000 Lyme disease cases per year in the United States has been a constant source of exasperation to the Lyme community. The agency acknowledged some years back that its “estimate” of cases is 10 times that—300,000+ annually. But an... Read More »

Wall Street Journal, June 22, 2018 by Jo Craven McGinty This time of year, the U.S. is crawling with ticks. It’s a concern because the rapacious bloodsuckers spread disease when they bite. The most common tick-borne ailment is Lyme disease, but the official case count—which helps... Read More »