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By Carolyn Degnan Giving Tuesday, started nine years ago as a national day of charitable giving, falls on December 1 this year. If you are a Giving Tuesday participant, we hope you’ll include LymeDisease.org in your donations. Support from individuals like you helps us continue... Read More »

People, November 4, 2020 by Joelle Goldstein Allyshia Gupta is embracing the truth about her health and revealing she has Lyme disease, more than 20 years after being diagnosed. Gupta, who was crowned Miss California USA in January, tells PEOPLE that she first learned she had... Read More »

The Tick-Borne Disease Working Group  (TBDWG) meets next on November 17,  from 9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., ET. This online meeting is open to the public. Meeting Registration Register for the meeting here. Once registered, you will receive an email confirmation with a personalized... Read More »

A groundbreaking in vivo clinical study conducted by Dr. Richard Horowitz has found that an eight-week course of the leprosy drug dapsone combined with doxycycline and rifampin is effective in improving symptoms in 98% of patients suffering from chronic Lyme disease/Post... Read More »

LymeDisease.org’s Lonnie Marcum live-tweeted the October 27 online meeting of the federal Tick-Borne Disease Working Group. Click below to scroll through the day’s collection of her play-by-play commentary. Read More »

Johns Hopkins Medicine and Johns Hopkins Applied Research Laboratory (APL) researchers have shown that cell phone images of rashes taken by patients can be  evaluated using artificial intelligence (AI) and deep learning (DL) technologies to more accurately detect and identify the... Read More »

If you missed LymeMIND 2020, an online conference featuring many top speakers, you’re in luck. The organization has made the four-hour video available for reviewing via Facebook. (You don’t have to be a member of Facebook to access it. Just click on the link below.)... Read More »

Press release from the US Department of Health and Human Services: Today, at the virtual LymeMIND conference, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Steven & Alexandra Cohen Foundation announced a new $25 million-dollar, public-private partnership —... Read More »

The next meeting of the federal Tick-Borne Disease Working Group (TBDWG) will be held on October 27,  from 9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., ET. This is an online meeting and is open to the public. During this meeting, the TBDWG will review chapters and the template for the 2020 report to... Read More »