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On December 11, I was privileged to address the inaugural meeting of the federal Tick-Borne Disease Working Group. This panel, established by the 21st Century Cures Act, brings together experts from a variety of disciplines as well as patient representatives, to inform federal... Read More »

Looking for suggestions of useful Lyme-related books? Here are some I personally recommend. All are available from online sources. Many are in e-book format as well. Dr. Richard Horowitz’s book, How Can I Get Better? An Action Plan for Treating Resistant Lyme and Chronic... Read More »

The first patient advocate to address Monday’s inaugural meeting of the Tick-Borne Diseases Working Group in Washington really knocked our socks off. Air Force Colonel Nicole Malachowski, the first female pilot ever chosen to fly in the elite Thunderbirds, told the panel she will... Read More »

Press release from Tulane University, December 13, 2017: Bay Area Lyme Foundation, a leading sponsor of Lyme disease research in the U.S., today announced results of two papers published in the peer-reviewed journals PLOS ONE and American Journal of Pathology, that seem to... Read More »

Huffington Post, December 13, 2017: by David Michael Conner Tuesday was the second of the first two-day meeting of the HHS Federal Tick-Borne Disease Working Group. In sum, Monday was largely ceremonial. It began with the non-federal employee members of the Working Group taking... Read More »

Press release: LymeDisease.org releases “Top 10 Lyme Disease Research Questions,” as federal government weighs options in fight against growing epidemic. The nation’s top research priority for Lyme disease should be finding a more accurate and sensitive diagnostic test. That’s... Read More »

David Michael  Conner was in the audience yesterday at the first meeting of the federal Tick-Borne Diseases Working Group. He filed the following report for the Huffington Post. Another meeting will be held today. December 12, 2017 …To say that the legacy of the AIDS... Read More »

The US Department of Health and Human Services today gave us a statement regarding Dr. Gary Wormser’s position on the federal Tick-Borne Diseases Working Group. According to an HHS spokesperson: “Dr. Gary Wormser has declined the invitation to serve on the Tick-Borne Disease... Read More »

If you go to the US Department of Health and Human Services website, you’ll see a beautiful thing. Dr. Gary Wormser’s name has been removed from the list of members of the Tick-Borne Diseases Working Group. We await word from HHS about who may be named to replace him. Presumably... Read More »