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The Tick-Borne Disease Working Group held its fourth meeting via webcast. Our Lonnie Marcum live-tweeted the day’s proceedings. Move the scroll bar to view her tweets (and re-tweets and comments from LymeDisease.org President Phyllis Mervine.) Read More »

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 »

KQED’s “Forum” is a highly rated interview program on San Francisco NPR radio station. On May 3, it broadcast an excellent discussion entitled “The Rise of Lyme Disease in Northern California.” Host Michael Krasny interviewed investigative journalist... 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 »

Washington Post, May 1, 2018 By Lena Sun The warmer weather of spring and summer means the start of tick and mosquito season and the diseases they transmit, including Lyme disease, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, West Nile and Zika. A new report from the Centers for Disease Control... 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 »