Focus – Opinions and Features

By Dr. Betty Maloney: For the past nine years, I’ve been educating my medical colleagues and other healthcare professionals about tick-borne illnesses. In addition to speaking at non-Lyme conferences, publishing papers and co-authoring the ILADS Lyme treatment guidelines, I spend... Read More »

This is one of a series of guest blogs by people who have enrolled in MyLymeData. by Mike Hessler In the summer of 2008, I spent one day boating on the Chesapeake with friends and family–and had a terrible time. There was an awful feeling of constant pressure in my head... Read More »

This is one of a series of guest blogs by people who have enrolled in MyLymeData. by Catherine Fox Five years ago, I was enjoying fulfilling full-time work and a busy lifestyle when I began to notice I was unusually tired. Bothersome pain came and went in some of my joints. And I... Read More »

By Sandi Bohle This is the fourth in a series of posts about how many in the Lyme community turn to the arts as a way of supporting their healing and taking their mind off the daily struggle of dealing with Lyme disease. As someone who had a 30-year career in the arts before... Read More »

By Phyllis Mervine, President of LymeDisease.org     In many parts of the country, nymphal ticks are active now. They are the life stage most often associated with humans getting Lyme. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Take a minute to educate yourself about where... Read More »

May is Lyme Disease Awareness Month and in most parts of the US, ticks are out in force. In the next few months, thousands of people will be going to the doctor with mysterious symptoms because they didn’t notice a tick bite. This poster can help your friends and neighbors... Read More »

By Phyllis Mervine, President of LymeDisease.org We want Senator Blumenthal’s bill, S. 1503, Lyme and Tick-Borne Disease Prevention, Education, and Research Act of 2015, to pass. It will only pass if enough people affected by Lyme write and call their legislators. So far... Read More »

This is one of a series of guest blogs by people who have enrolled in MyLymeData. by Eliza Hemenway I wrote a book about my daughter’s battle with Lyme disease called Paris in Oakland. It is meant to be another voice exposing the injustices of Lyme disease, and a call for... Read More »

This is one of a series of guest blogs by people who have enrolled in MyLymeData. by Dana Parish A July 2014 wedding on Long Beach Island, New Jersey was the start of my nightmare. It was a beautiful weekend filled with love for two of our dearest friends who were, after 14 years... Read More »