Focus – Opinions and Features

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 »

By Sandi Bohle This is the third 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 »

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 »

By Sandi Bohle This is the second 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 »

  This is one of a series of guest blogs by people who have enrolled in MyLymeData. When Rachel Leland was wheelchair-bound (often bed-bound) from Lyme disease as a young teenager, she learned to edit videos on her computer. What follows is a video blog about why she thinks... Read More »

By Sandi Bohle This is the first in a series of posts about how many in the Lyme community have turned 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... Read More »

  This is one of a series of guest blogs by people who have enrolled in MyLymeData. By Ruben Lee Sims I have had Lyme disease for 34 years and began treatment for the first time last month. I was active duty Air Force when I contracted Lyme disease in Southern California in... Read More »

. by Lonnie Marcum: . In a paper titled: “Identification of Novel Zoonotic Activity of Bartonella spp., France” to be published March 2016 in Emerging Infectious Disease Journal, CDC researchers report that they have identified six strains of Bartonella in patients with chronic... Read More »