Focus – Opinions and Features

by Ella Steinbeck I have been absent. Not just absent from my regular activities or a couple of dinner parties but I have been absent from life. I have something called Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome. It’s painful and horrible and since it affects collagen there is no part of my body... Read More »

by Julie Starling It was a warm fall evening in Santa Cruz as my husband and I walked the dogs along the beach. Instead of the usual sunset over the sea’s horizon, a dense wall of fog rolled in, motionless, blocking the setting sun from above. Gazing at the thick wall of fog felt... Read More »

Bartonella, also called “cat scratch disease,” is often a co-infection of Lyme disease. It can be transmitted by fleas, ticks and cat scratches. The following podcast is from North Carolina State University. In it, Tracy Peake interviews Ed Breitschwerdt, infectious... Read More »

By Thomas Grier Recently, the National Institute on Aging, as part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), approved the acceptance of research to study the role of microbes in causing dementia. This announcement came right on the heels of a recent UK study detecting bacteria... Read More »

by Shona Curley Recently I spoke with my medical intuitive, Adrienne, on the phone. Yes, I know—how California! But this lovely woman has helped me more than anyone else on my journey toward Lyme remission. With Lyme disease, you take a leap of faith with every new treatment.... Read More »

By Julia Greenspan, ND Chronic Lyme disease and associated co-infections are creating a chronic disease juggernaut that is moving through the environment, the human body and our health care system. This diminishes quality of life and productivity while increasing medical costs.... Read More »

by Holly Ahern, MS, MT (ASCP) In 2018, I served on a Subcommittee of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Tick Borne Disease Working Group. This was a Federal Advisory Committee, comprised of federal and public members with “diverse disciplines and views pertaining... Read More »

Paula Jackson Jones of Maine is co-founder of Midcoast Lyme Disease Support and Education (MLDSE). By Paula Jackson Jones If you are struggling and feeling hopeless, please read this. I just got off the phone with a 29-year-old woman who has two young children and lives in the... Read More »

by Brian Benson, Bridgewater State University If you met Patrick Collins as a young teen, you’d be hard-pressed to imagine him jogging around his neighborhood, never mind one day running track at Bridgewater State University. During much of his time in middle school, Patrick... Read More »