The risk of contracting Lyme disease depends on where you live or visit. The best way to determine an area’s risk is to look at a map. However, maps from different sources vary. For example, the CDC surveillance maps show exposure as primarily limited to the East Coast, but... Read More »

Press release from Stanford University School of Medicine, July 31, 2017: Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have linked chronic fatigue syndrome to variations in 17 immune-system signaling proteins, or cytokines, whose concentrations in the blood correlate... Read More »

Lyme disease and tick-borne diseases are complicated illnesses and because of that, treatment can be complex. Patients who’ve gone through treatment will often say “your symptoms get worse before they get better.” One of the reasons for this is something called a... Read More »

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is accepting nominations for people to serve on a federal “tick-borne disease working group.” The working group was a Lyme-related portion of the 21st Century Cures Act, signed into law in December 2016. According to... Read More »

New York Times, July 24, 2017: by Aneri Pattani SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. — This town is under siege from tiny invaders. A doctor at Southampton Hospital recently pulled a tick off a woman’s eyeball. After a 10-minute walk outside, a mother reported finding a tick affixed to her... Read More »

Greenwich Times, July 26, 2017: By Amanda Cuda Medical services to people suffering from Lyme disease jumped 185 percent in rural areas and 40 percent in urban areas nationwide over a nine-year period, according to new research from a national nonprofit. Local experts said this... Read More »

International Business Times, UK, July 26, 2017: by Sutrishna Ghosh Opening up about her struggles with Lyme disease, former model and mother of Gigi and Bella, Yolanda Hadid has revealed painful details from her past including the moment she was dumped by her ex David Foster.... Read More »

by Aviva Peltin Ableism is a term that was not even on my radar before 2010, when my health crashed. I guess that’s how it goes – you don’t realize the obstacles others experience until you’re facing them, too. Before 2010, if I were to contemplate disability, I would think about... Read More »

A few months ago, I wrote about two Canadian mothers with Lyme disease—nurse Sue Faber and attorney Jennifer Kravis—and their Lyme Letters Canada campaign. The campaign has gathered thousands of letters from Canadian Lyme patients, addressed to Federal Minister of Health Jane... Read More »