Focus – Opinions and Features

By Pegi Deitz Shea In 2022, I’d been humming along, only having short flare-ups of Lyme symptoms once or twice a year. Since my six-month delayed diagnosis of Lyme disease in 1998, the flare-ups had gradually become less severe as well. Usually within two months, I could begin... Read More »

By Terri McCormick As tick‑borne diseases continue to rise, scientists are working to create better diagnostic tools. The idea behind this work is simple: doctors can’t treat an infection if they can’t reliably detect it. And to detect these microbes, researchers first need to... Read More »

By Fred Diamond When you break an ankle, you don’t need someone to coach you through the treatment process, financial issues, and medicinal requirements that come along with healing. However, for people living with chronic Lyme disease and other tick-borne infections, the illness... Read More »

By Julia Lupine EMF—electromagnetic fields generated by wireless devices, power systems, and digital technologies—has become a buzzword in recent years. Some people are sounding alarms about potential health effects, while mainstream sources like Google and Wikipedia continue to... Read More »

By Fred Diamond For people living with Lyme disease, the journey is often laden with enduring years of uncertainty, loss, and isolation often while appearing “fine” to the outside world. It may be about learning to advocate for yourself when the medical system fails to provide... Read More »

By Terri McCormick Lyme disease and other tick-borne illnesses are often discussed in terms of joints, nerves, and immune dysfunction. One critical area is frequently overlooked: the mouth. That gap was the focus of a recent clinical lecture on oral–systemic health and its... Read More »

By Rabbi Melinda Bernstein When I first learned I had Lyme in April 2024, I went looking for the soul of the issue. As I began to understand what was happening in my body, I also paid close attention to what others in the Lyme community were grappling with, even as I quietly... Read More »

This week, Terri McCormick joins LymeDisease.org as a writer and advocate. What follows is her first blog for us. Like so many people in the Lyme community, my path here did not begin with a career plan or an academic interest. It began when my children became sick and no one... Read More »

The following excerpt comes from A Blind Spot on Autism. The book is co‑authored by Debbie Kimberg, a mother and advocate whose writing for LymeDisease.org has chronicled her son’s improvement after treatment for vector‑borne infections including Borrelia, Bartonella, and... Read More »