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The federal Tick-Borne Disease Working Group held two days of meetings in Philadelphia on March 3 and 4. Panel members went through the recommendations of the eight subcommittees, accepting some and rejecting others. For the first time, the events were streamed via YouTube. Thus,... Read More »

The federal Tick-Borne Disease Working Group met in Philadelphia on March 3 and 4. Lonnie Marcum, of LymeDisease.org, live-tweeted the proceedings. Click here to read her tweets from Day One. Click below to read her tweets from Day Two. Read More »

The federal Tick-Borne Disease Working Group met in Philadelphia on March 3 and 4. LymeDisease.org’s Lonnie Marcum live-tweeted the proceedings. Click below to see her tweets for the first day. Click here to see tweets for the second day. Read More »

The Spring 2020 issue of the Lyme Times features four articles about disulfiram. The drug has been around for 70 years, but has only recently been used for Lyme disease. Many patients and their doctors report success–but also urge caution. Other topics covered in this... Read More »

According to a new study, the CDC’s standard two-tier testing for Lyme disease failed to accurately diagnose more than 70% of blood samples from individuals with an erythema migrans rash greater than 5 centimeters across. Additional findings showed that Lyme disease also occurred... Read More »

From NatCapLyme: The Virginia Board of Medicine has voted to revoke the medical license of Dr. Leila Zackrison. While the final decision was announced, the board has yet to release its opinion detailing the rationale for its decision. Many of our members are Dr. Zackrison’s... Read More »

Researchers have determined that seven herbal medicines are highly active in test tubes against B. burgdorferi, the bacteria that causes Lyme disease, compared to the control antibiotics, doxycycline and cefuroxime. Published in the journal Frontiers in Medicine, the laboratory... Read More »

Morgellons disease is a controversial illness associated with Lyme disease. It is caused by infection with a type of corkscrew-shaped bacteria known as a spirochete. A new study describes a staging system for this mysterious skin disease based on medical experience with syphilis,... Read More »

Journalist Mary Beth Pfeiffer reports that Cigna has become the third insurance company to reach a settlement in Torrey v. IDSA et al. That’s the federal lawsuit filed by a group of Lyme patients against six members of the Infectious Diseases Society of America and... Read More »