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My recent request to deliver verbal comments to the federal Tick-Borne Disease Working Group on May 10 was granted. Here’s what I said: Good afternoon. First, I’d like to thank you all for the work the TBDWG is doing and for giving me the opportunity to comment. My... Read More »

Robert Sabatino, a former New York City police officer, has been named as the newest public member of the federal Tick-Borne Disease Working Group. He fills the spot left vacant after the resignation of Karen Vanderhoof-Forschner. Sabatino is founder and executive director of... Read More »

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is a small, little-known part of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). One of the functions that AHRQ has performed up until now is to provide the National Guidelines Clearinghouse (NGC). NGC is a database of... Read More »

Forbes.com, April 21, 2018: By Bruce Y. Lee Looks like a bunch of New Jersey residents survived the winter. But that is not really good news. On Friday, the New Jersey Department of Agriculture announced the latest follow-up to what was described in a February 2018 publication in... Read More »

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is a governmental body in the United Kingdom that publishes clinical guidelines for health care professionals. (It is similar to the National Guidelines Clearinghouse in the United States.) Recently, NICE published a... Read More »

Press release from Union Square Medical Associates, April 17, 2018: A study by an international team of researchers has found persistent infection despite antibiotic therapy in patients with ongoing symptoms of Lyme disease. The study was published in the open access journal... Read More »

The following article is submitted by Bruce Fries, of the Patient Centered Care Advocacy Group: Congress has stepped up efforts to improve the federal government’s response to the rapidly growing epidemic of Lyme disease. The FY 2018 Congressional Appropriations bill signed into... Read More »

Press release from University of Maryland: A University of Maryland (UMD) researcher has uncovered a mechanism by which the bacteria that causes Lyme disease persists in the body and fights your early, innate immune responses. Dr. Utpal Pal, Professor in Veterinary Medicine, has... Read More »

Press release from US Food and Drug Administration, March 6, 2018: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved the Imugen Babesia microti Arrayed Fluorescent Immunoassay (AFIA), for the detection of antibodies to Babesia microti (B. microti) in human plasma samples, and... Read More »