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A few months ago, I wrote about two Canadian mothers with Lyme disease—nurse Sue Faber and attorney Jennifer Kravis—and their Lyme Letters Canada campaign. The campaign has gathered thousands of letters from Canadian Lyme patients, addressed to Federal Minister of Health Jane... Read More »

PANDAS (Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Streptococcal Infections) and PANS (Pediatric Acute-onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome) are infection-induced autoimmune conditions. .  Triggered by such infections as strep, Lyme disease, and Coxsackie virus,... Read More »

At a recent press conference in Ulster County, New York, US Senator Kirsten Gillibrand called on the Trump administration to implement Lyme disease-related provisions of the 21st Century Cures Act. Click here for more about that. At the event, Gillibrand also asked New York Lyme... Read More »

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 »