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July 11-15 was “Tick Week” at News Center Maine, an NBC-affiliated TV station in Portland, Maine. Reporter Vivian Leigh filed daily stories related to such topics as Pfizer’s Lyme disease vaccine, a proposed preventative shot for Lyme, a Maine family’s challenges... Read More »

Dr. Richard Horowitz recently sent out the following public message regarding his latest journal publication. Good news. Our paper on high dose dapsone combination therapy (HDDCT) for the treatment of chronic Lyme disease/Post-Treatment Lyme Disease Syndrome (PTLDS) was accepted... Read More »

Dr. Adrian Baranchuk, a cardiologist and professor based in Kingston, Ontario has published research and presented widely on the topic of Lyme carditis. In an online session with Project Lyme, he discusses Lyme carditis, one of the many ways Lyme disease can affect the heart. As... Read More »

Regional collaboration, funded with a five-year, $10 million award, is designed to reduce diseases spread by ticks and mosquitoes. The University of Massachusetts Amherst has received a $10 million, five-year award from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to... Read More »

People.com, June 29, 2022 by Aili Nahas Nearly two years since The Bachelorette’s Ryan Sutter first began experiencing debilitating and confounding symptoms of a then-unknown affliction, the firefighter, who has been wed to Trista Sutter since 2003, is finally seeing the... Read More »

PA Lyme Resource Network reports there has been progress on Senate Bill 1188. The legislation requires insurance coverage for long-term treatment of Lyme disease, along with other measures intended to combat tick-borne disease through education and research. SB 1188 unanimously... Read More »

Experts say some hospitals’ use of an ad tracking tool may violate a federal law protecting health information By: Todd Feathers, Simon Fondrie-Teitler, Angie Waller, and Surya Mattu A tracking tool installed on many hospitals’ websites has been collecting patients’ sensitive... Read More »

Adaptive Biotechnologies has unveiled a new type of Lyme disease test aimed at detecting the illness during the early stages of infection. Conventional tests for the disease look for antibodies to the Lyme bacteria. Because antibodies can take weeks to develop, early testing is... Read More »

The CDC has recently published new county-level mapping of where blacklegged ticks are most prevalent and where they have been found infected with any of seven disease-causing pathogens. “The more we look for ticks and tick-borne pathogens, the more we find—and the more... Read More »