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On July 11, a committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine held a workshop examining the question of what they called “Lyme infection-associated chronic illness”—or “Lyme IACI.” It was significant on several fronts. The committee itself is a panel of... Read More »

Sen. Bernie Sanders, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), has introduced legislation to address the long COVID crisis that is affecting more than 22 million adults and 1 million children across the United States – and millions more... Read More »

By Joyce Cohen, the New York Post Kelly Kreth was living the Manhattan dream. Ten years ago, she lucked into a rent-stabilized apartment in a doorman elevator building in Yorkville. Her current rent is just $2,105.42 a month. In her 1964 white-brick building, comparable... Read More »

Beth O’Hara, founder and owner of Mast Cell 360, has died. She was a functional naturopath specializing in mast cell activation syndrome and histamine intolerance, and many members of the Lyme community followed her work. A message posted on Mast Cell 360’s Facebook page... Read More »

By CanLyme Canadian researchers compared the prevalence and infection rate of ticks in residential, woodland and residential/woodland border zones in Ottawa.1 They found that there were 15 times as many nymphal ticks in the woodland zones and 4 times as many in the border zones... Read More »

By Christine Kilgore, Medscape Advancing treatment for what has been variably called chronic Lyme and posttreatment Lyme disease (PTLD) is under the eyes of a National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) committee of experts for the first time — a year after... Read More »

By Bonnie Crater, Center for Lyme Action Thank you to all the Lyme advocates for your consistent efforts to grow federal funding for Lyme and tick-borne conditions. Last week, the House Appropriations Committee approved the Fiscal Year 2025 Department of Labor, Health and Human... Read More »

By  Leslie Tate, Tulane University A new Tulane University case study published in the journal Heliyon explores whether untreated, chronic Lyme disease could have played a role in a tragic case of substance abuse and violence. The case study focused on a 32-year-old male patient... Read More »

A resident of Maine, 80-year-old Arlene Crabtree, passed away in June after a delayed diagnosis of tick-borne babesiosis. Her daughter Deborah Crabtree gave the following account to a Maine TV station: ”My mom was diagnosed with what we thought was a UTI. So, she was on... Read More »