Focus – Opinions and Features

By Judith Howard I was bitten by a female deer tick in Missouri in July 2015. My doctor said there was no risk of infection at the time, and I was neither tested nor treated for tick-borne diseases. However, after both of my parents died in 2017, I began experiencing unusual... Read More »

By Fred Diamond On this week’s “Love, Hope, Lyme” podcast, Lymedisease.org President Dorothy Leland and her daughter Rachel Leland discuss the book they wrote together, Finding Resilience: A Teen’s Journey Through Lyme Disease. It’s based on the journal Rachel kept during the... Read More »

Perinatal transmission of Lyme disease: A qualitative study investigating the research priorities of patients with Lyme disease in pregnancy has just been published in PLOS ONE, a peer-reviewed, open access journal. By Catherine Kinsella This recent Canadian study articulates... Read More »

By Alain Mass, MD Nearly one in six children between the ages of 2 and 6 years old (17.4%) has a diagnosed mental, behavioral or developmental disorder. More than 17 million children in the United States have or have had a diagnosable mental illness. Mental disorders are either... Read More »

By Nancy Dougherty Infection-associated chronic illnesses such as Long COVID, myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) and chronic Lyme disease share similar symptoms and may share important biologic mechanisms, too. Dysautonomia, or autonomic nervous system... Read More »

By Rachel Leland The top picture was taken in a parking lot, when my mom and I were traveling out of state for medical treatment in 2008. There was a little bit of snow and I was so excited, because I had spent the last three years in my bedroom…far away from any sort of snow to... Read More »

By Fred Diamond On this week’s Love, Hope, Lyme podcast, Center for Lyme Action Co-founder Bonnie Crater talks about how the Lyme community can influence the federal government to provide more funding for Lyme disease research. The annual Virtual Lyme Fly-In, where people get a... Read More »

By Jen Johnson Anyone who has ever been faced with an unsettling ERMI test knows that when you find yourself living in mold, there are no easy options for getting into a clean environment. Older homes are moldy. Newer homes are moldy. Rentals are moldy. Even AirBNBs and hotels... Read More »

By Anna Brennan I had already given birth four times before I found out that I had chronic Lyme. Looking back, I think my children’s diagnoses were inevitable. Just like the other children in our neighborhood, my kids sat in piles of leaves in the fall. They played in tall grass... Read More »