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The latest issue of the digital Lyme Times includes a book excerpt from “Lyme Brain,” by Dr. Nicola McFadzean Ducharme, an interview with musician Daryl Hall, articles about the psychiatric manifestations of Lyme, Babesia in the US blood supply, recent Lyme research, patient... Read More »

On June 17, 2017, David Michael Conner of the Huffington Post published a long message to the editors of the Washington Post, objecting to their recent article about Lyme disease and the CDC.  Conner states in part: Your publication, the Washington Post, on June 15 published an... Read More »

The CDC’s June 15 article in MMWR, which slams “chronic Lyme” treatments—and by extension, Lyme patients and the doctors who treat them—continues to draw sharp responses from the Lyme disease community. ILADS physician Raphael Stricker, MD, and his frequent co-author,... Read More »

A response to this week’s CDC article on Lyme disease. By Patricia Smith, Lyme Disease Association, June 14, 2017:   The time has come when the public is entitled to know who in government or elsewhere is controlling the treatment of Lyme disease. 43 years into the... Read More »

This week, CDC employees published an article about five patients who had “adverse effects” after undergoing “unproven” treatments for Lyme disease. What they failed to disclose, however, is that their report was based on questionable research conducted by the CDC–research... Read More »

Our thanks to Fox5NY, for creating this public service announcement about Lyme disease. “The Faces of Lyme” showcases the work of photographer Stephanie Michelle Vandagriff, who has at times taken pictures at LymeDisease.org events. (Most recently, at our MyLymeData... Read More »

They call him Ötzi the Iceman. He lived and died 5300 years ago, in the Eastern Alps near the modern-day border of Austria and Italy. His frozen remains were discovered accidentally by German hikers in 1991. Now, his mummified body rests at the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology... Read More »

Press release from LymeDisease.org, June 8, 2017: A new study suggests that developing effective treatments for Lyme disease may depend on understanding which patients respond to different treatments. Data collected from over 3,400 patients through LymeDisease.org‘s... Read More »

LymeDisease.org board member Dr. Christine Green was among the speakers at our recent MyLymeData conference in the San Francisco Bay Area. Dr. Green has developed an expertise in treating Lyme disease over a 30-year span of practicing integrative, complementary, and... Read More »