Focus – Opinions and Features

By Fred Diamond Can you be a successful business owner in a competitive and stressful industry while dealing with chronic Lyme disease? I regularly interview high-achieving sales and business leaders around the world for my Sales Game Changers Podcast. When I decided to learn... Read More »

By Kris Newby, Invisible International It’s easy to dwell on the negative with Lyme disease. Forty-seven years after discovery of the first case cluster in Lyme, Connecticut, there are still no reliable tests or effective vaccines on the market. Among those patients who are... Read More »

By Kris Newby, Invisible International In 2019, the late-great-science-writer Sharon Begley wrote an insightful article, “The maddening saga of how an Alzheimer’s ‘cabal’ thwarted progress toward a cure for decades.” Begley’s reporting described how a powerful group of... Read More »

By Meg Huber For six and a half years of my life, I was in the exact same situation nearly weekly—sitting in a doctor’s office being asked to rate my pain using a scale from 1-10. The numbers were abstract while my pain, though ever-changing, was a concrete reality. How could I... Read More »

By Debbie Kimberg For years, I had no idea that I was infected with Lyme disease and related illnesses. There was nothing obvious, like pain or chronic fatigue. Instead, my symptoms were mild and crept up on me insidiously over my lifetime: anxiety, social anxiety, irritability,... Read More »

By Dr. Rosalie Greenberg As I was looking at a recent edition of the New Jersey Star Ledger,  I was struck by a lengthy article entitled, “Saving Charlie.”(1) Reporter Adam Clark chronicled the struggles of a suicidal teenager and his family’s ongoing efforts to get him proper... Read More »

By Steve Doherty I was bitten on the neck by a tick in 1996, while camping in southern Mississippi. But I didn’t notice or remove the tick until five days after I returned home. Looking back, I now recognize the subtle symptoms in the years following, such as hand rashes,... Read More »

By Casey Fillian Thirty-seven years ago, I went to summer camp in a heavily wooded area of New Jersey. I started coming down with odd symptoms a few weeks later. I had high fevers, exhaustion, muscle aches, a mysterious rash on my torso, and a knee swollen twice its size. For... Read More »

Cortney McCord delivered the following public comment at the Feb.28 meeting of the federal Tick-Borne Disease Working Group. My name is Cortney McCord. I’m a 41-year-old registered nurse from Northeast Mississippi. On May 8, 2021, I found a deer tick on my leg. I developed an... Read More »