Focus – Opinions and Features

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 »

By Jenn Hyla Growing up in Las Vegas, Nevada, I never worried much about bug bites. In fact, one of my dad’s favorite sayings when I scraped a knee or something was, “I’ve had bug bites worse than that.” So, when I woke up one day with a big swollen knee without knowing how I... Read More »

By Lindsay Christensen, MS, CNS, LDN, CKNS Your immune system, brain, and gastrointestinal system, not to mention the rest of your body, require optimal nutrition to function properly. Improving nutrition can help your body fight Lyme disease, allow your immune system to work... Read More »

By Dr. Adrian Baranchuk Lyme disease is a tick-borne infection caused by bacteria known as Borrelia burgdorferi. Lyme carditis is an early manifestation of Lyme disease that can occur two to six weeks after the tick bite. Approximately five to 10 per cent of patients presenting... Read More »