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The newly released blood culture test for Lyme is now available in all states except New York and Florida. We are posting this press release from Advanced Laboratory Services to answer many of the questions being asked in the Lyme community about this test. Read More »

Early results from a research team in Martha's Vineyard point to serious deficiencies in how tick-borne diseases are reported, especially for Lyme disease. Read More »

"Spray, Tuck, Zip" was the grand prize winner (18 years and above) in the Tick bite Prevention Video Public Service Announcement (PSA) contest, co-sponsored by the California Department of Public Health and the DEET Education Program. Read More »

According to participant Sharon Rainey, about 70 people gathered peacefully in Boston outside the annual IDSA convention to protest the current treatment guidelines for Lyme disease. Coming from as far as Arizona, Wisconsin and Virginia, Lyme patients held homemade signs and... Read More »

A new survey of people with Lyme and other tick-borne infections is being conducted in the UK and Ireland. Read More »

If you are a member of LymeDisease.org, this issue of the Lyme Times may have already hit your mailbox. If not, why not join today and have your subscription start with this issue? Read More »

The Argus Leader, a South Dakota newspaper, reports about a Boy Scout who had to do his own research to discover his troubling symptoms were due to Lyme disease. Read More »

Last spring, the Lyme Disease Awareness Car garnered enough votes in the on-line "Sponsifier" race to win an official NASCAR helmet. The helmet will make some publicity rounds, and then will be enshrined at the office of Dr. Charles Ray Jones, so children he treats may... Read More »

The California Lyme Disease Association has officially changed its name to LymeDisease.org. As founder and chair Phyllis Mervine explains, the goals of the organization have not changed. Read More »