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Jeff Crater delivered the following public comments to the Tick-Borne Disease Working Group on July 19. I’m Jeff Crater, Co-founder and Board Member of the Center for Lyme Action, a 501 C4 based in Washington DC and established in 2019 to increase federal funding for Lyme disease... Read More »

Carl Tuttle delivered the following public comments to the federal Tick-Borne Disease Working Group on July 19. He later supplied us with footnotes to include along with his remarks. My verbal comment today is a follow-up to my written public comment regarding the CDC’s refusal... Read More »

Monica White delivered the following public comments to the Tick-Borne Disease Working Group on July 19. My name is Monica White. I’m president/co-founder of Colorado Tick-Borne Disease Awareness Association. I’ve lived with chronic Lyme, co-infections and conditions for nearly... Read More »

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 »