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The latest issue of the Lyme Times is now available. In our cover story, our CEO Lorraine Johnson discusses how the CDC’s reported numbers of Lyme cases don’t match figures that come from other sources. Canine cases, physician referrals, and the MyLymeData registry... Read More »

US Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price resigned his post today, amid questions regarding his use of private jets for government business trips. Unknown at this point is what effect this development will have on the proposed Tick-Borne Disease (TBD) Working Group that... Read More »

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a three-year, $800,000 grant to explore predictive analytic techniques using data collected by the MyLymeData patient registry. Researchers at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) and Claremont McKenna College will... Read More »

Co-published by Inside Climate News and WebMD, Sept. 14, 2017: by Phil McKenna The fever started on a Monday morning in June. By Friday, I woke up in a bed at Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with yellow skin, an inflamed liver, a dull pain in my stomach and a... Read More »

The Independent, a weekly newspaper in Wakefield, Rhode Island, recently published a three-part series exploring the debate over Lyme disease diagnosis and treatment, and how it has affected Rhode Islanders. All three segments are by staff writer James Bessette.     ... Read More »

Psychiatrist Robert Bransfield, MD, an expert on Lyme disease and a former president of ILADS, last week gave prepared remarks to a New York State Senate hearing on tick-borne illness. Afterwards, he wrote the following letter to the two senators who chaired the hearing, giving... Read More »

Psychiatrist Robert Bransfield, MD, a former president of ILADS, addressed last week’s New York State Senate hearing on Lyme disease via remote video link. He discussed the many psychiatric impairments that can arise from tick-borne illnesses. If you’ve tried watching the... Read More »

WSKG Radio (Binghamton, NY), August 30, 2017: by Karen DeWitt Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s health commissioner received a grilling from state senators at a hearing this week on whether New York is doing enough to combat tick-borne illnesses. Health Commissioner Howard Zucker told the... Read More »

The Legal Intelligencer, August 21, 2017: by Max Mitchell The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has agreed to take up the appeal of a woman who aims to sue her doctor over an alleged misdiagnosis of her Lyme disease as multiple sclerosis. The woman’s case had been tossed out... Read More »