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"Cure Unknown" author Pamela Weintraub responds to the Chicago Tribune's recent controversial article about Lyme disease. Read More »

Main article slams LLMDs, "gullible patients," overuse of antibiotics, "non-existent" disease. A sidebar focuses on Dr. Joe Jemsek. Read More »

The makers of the award-winning Lyme documentary report that "Under Our Skin" will air nationally on public television stations during Lyme Disease Awareness Month, May 2011. This could reach millions of homes across the country. The folks at Open Eye Pictures report... Read More »

In part one, CBS-5 medical correspondent Dr. Kim Mulvihill profiles a Lyme patient battling her insurance company for coverage of IV antibiotics. Part two looks at the broader controversy of the "Lyme Wars." Read More »

Along with new and continuing challenges for the Lyme community, there is also much to be grateful for. Here's some of what we're thinking about this Thanksgiving. Read More »

Tim Lockley, a retired USDA entomologist, gives tick advice to hunters in Mississippi. Read More »

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Reversing a longstanding policy, the federal government said on Friday that human and other genes should not be eligible for patents because they are part of nature. The new position could have a huge impact on medicine and on the biotechnology industry (including major... Read More »

Some believe the standard Lyme test doesn’t work in Alabama because it uses a strain of Borrelia burgdorferi –- the spirochete known to cause Lyme disease in the Northeast –- from New York, which doesn’t match the Southern strain, B.lonestari. Read More »