Focus – Opinions and Features

Phyllis Mervine gave the following public comments via telephone, during the recent federal Tick-Borne Disease Working Group meeting. The single most important thing the Working Group can do right now for the Lyme community and all the patients suffering with Lyme disease is to... Read More »

Mira Shapiro delivered the following public comments at the recent meeting of the federal Tick-Borne Disease Working Group in Philadelphia. My name is Mira Shapiro. I am here today on behalf of LymeDisease.org. I am also a chronic Lyme disease patient and a biostatistician. My... Read More »

Melissa Potter delivered the following remarks to the federal Tick-Borne Disease Working Group earlier this week in Philadelphia. Good morning, my name is Melissa Potter. I am here on behalf of LymeDisease.org LymeDisease.org is one of the oldest Lyme nonprofits in the nation. We... Read More »

Dr. Elizabeth Maloney delivered the following public comments to the federal Tick-Borne Disease Working Group this week. Good morning committee members, I’m Dr. Elizabeth Maloney. I spoke with you at the January meeting and appreciate the opportunity to speak with you again. I... Read More »

The following is a response to an opinion piece in the Connecticut Mirror newspaper. In it, two IDSA doctors charge that chronic Lyme disease is a fraudulent diagnosis. Furthermore, they accuse physicians who treat it of deception and misrepresentation.  By Jennifer Shea The... Read More »

Sue Faber delivered the following remarks during public comment at the recent Federal Tick-Borne Disease Working Group in Washington DC. My name is Sue Faber, I am a registered nurse from Canada, co-founder and President of LymeHope. The issue of maternal-fetal transmission of... Read More »

Phyllis Mervine, Founder and President of LymeDisease.org, delivered the following public comments at the recent meeting of the federal Tick-Borne Disease Working Group. I live in a high-risk county for Lyme disease that doesn’t appear at all on the CDC’s new Lyme maps. The... Read More »

by Kristina Bauer and Cozette Moysa Disulfiram is a chemical compound first synthesized in the late 1800s. By the early 1900s, it was used as an industrial agent in the manufacture of rubber. The sulfur-containing substance also had some medicinal uses, such as treating... Read More »

By Dr. Steven Phillips For patients, there is often nothing more soul-crushing than being inexplicably sick with doctor after doctor having no answers, or getting the wrong diagnosis and being led down the wrong path with the wrong drugs. But for patients with Lyme disease,... Read More »