Focus – Opinions and Features

Bonnie Crater gave the following public comment at the February 28 meeting of the federal Tick-Borne Disease Working Group. I’m Bonnie Crater from Portola Valley, CA.  I co-founded the Bay Area Lyme Foundation which is the largest public charity funding Lyme disease research in... Read More »

Col. Nicole Malachowski delivered the following public comment to the February 28, 2022, meeting of the federal Tick-borne Disease Working Group. I’m Colonel Nicole Malachowski, United States Air Force, Retired. Lyme disease & tick-borne illness pose a unique risk to military... Read More »

By Jennifer Barrett As a third-year law student, I recently wrote a law journal article entitled: It’s About Lyme: Why Congress Must Enact Medical Insurance Coverage Laws for Lyme Disease Patients Now. It was published in Seattle University Law Review’s online companion journal,... Read More »

By Wendy Adams, Bay Area Lyme Foundation Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last few years, you’ll have learned that tick-borne diseases are on the rise across the United States. Many theories exist as to why this is the case. However, most scientists that study ticks... Read More »

Christine Green, MD, is a Stanford-trained, board-certified family medicine physician with 30 years of experience treating patients with tick-borne illness. On the board of LymeDisease.org, Dr. Green is also Co-director of Education for Invisible International,, is on Bay Area... Read More »

by Rosalie Greenberg, MD Many scientists and physicians agree that there are important issues concerning present Lyme disease (LD) testing. In this post, I will address how the commercial testing cleared by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and approved by the Centers for... Read More »

By Daniel Kinderlehrer, MD One-third of patients who were sick with COVID-19 have come down with chronic symptoms, now known as long COVID or long hauler syndrome or post-COVID syndrome.1 For the most part, these are people who had mild SARS-CoV-2 infections. And although... Read More »

By Nicole Danielle Bell Early in our relationship, my husband, Russ, and I never argued. We were both engineers, so our disagreements felt more logical and debate-like. But fast forward ten years, and all of that changed. He was irritable, moody, and sometimes outright nasty. The... Read More »

By Pat Smith Forty-six years after a mother alerted public health about an unknown disease affecting her Connecticut neighborhood, patients still await answers about Lyme disease and help from the federal government− little has been forthcoming. It’s been 37 years since I first... Read More »