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Sherill Franklin, a small business owner and patient advocate from Pennsylvania, will join the Access to Care Services and Support to Patients Subcommittee of the Tick-Borne Disease Working Group. She will replace Dr. Enid Haller, who is departing. The announcement was made on... Read More »

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is a small, little-known part of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). One of the functions that AHRQ has performed up until now is to provide the National Guidelines Clearinghouse (NGC). NGC is a database of... Read More »

Forbes.com, April 21, 2018: By Bruce Y. Lee Looks like a bunch of New Jersey residents survived the winter. But that is not really good news. On Friday, the New Jersey Department of Agriculture announced the latest follow-up to what was described in a February 2018 publication in... Read More »

Paula Jackson Jones, President of Midcoast Lyme Disease Support and Education, has been named a subcommittee co-chair for the federal Tick-Borne Disease Working Group. Jones, who co-founded the Maine-based patient advocacy group in 2014, will serve as co-chair of... Read More »

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is a governmental body in the United Kingdom that publishes clinical guidelines for health care professionals. (It is similar to the National Guidelines Clearinghouse in the United States.) Recently, NICE published a... Read More »

Press release from Union Square Medical Associates, April 17, 2018: A study by an international team of researchers has found persistent infection despite antibiotic therapy in patients with ongoing symptoms of Lyme disease. The study was published in the open access journal... Read More »

The following article is submitted by Bruce Fries, of the Patient Centered Care Advocacy Group: Congress has stepped up efforts to improve the federal government’s response to the rapidly growing epidemic of Lyme disease. The FY 2018 Congressional Appropriations bill signed into... Read More »

MassiveSci.com, April 9, 2018: by Gabriela Serrato Marks After reading Mary Beth Pfeiffer’s engrossing new book, Lyme, you will probably want to kill any tick you can find, donate to Lyme research, and find out if you are at risk for tick-borne diseases. Spoiler alert: your risk... Read More »

From the Federal Register, the Daily Journal of the US Government, April 9, 2018: The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announces the fourth online meeting of the Tick-Borne Disease Working Group (Working Group) on May 10, 2018, from 8:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m., Eastern... Read More »