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From the Ticked Off Music Fest: While Hawaii’s recent dengue fever outbreak has caused beaches to close and stores to sell out of mosquito repellent, a different disease is causing pain and suffering for island residents. Heather Cameron from Kauai was infected on the mainland... Read More »

Singer Avril Lavigne, who was diagnosed with Lyme disease over a year ago, has been raising funds to help others facing the illness. Her charity, The Avril Lavigne Foundation, recently donated more than $60,000 to the Lymelight Foundation, which provides treatment grants to... Read More »

LymeDisease.org today announced the launch of MyLymeData, a first-of-its-kind national patient-powered research project aimed at improving the quality of care for Lyme disease patients. The MyLymeData registry allows patients to pool their health information through a secure... Read More »

“Never, never, back down and don’t be afraid to stand up for what you know is right with respect to Lyme Disease diagnosis and treatment.” — Joseph J. Burrascano, Jr. MD, the 2015 recipient of the Research Award in Remembrance of John Drulle for his... Read More »

When the Infectious Diseases Society of America opened its annual conference in San Diego yesterday, attendees were greeted with the sight of a mobile billboard sponsored by LymeDisease.org. The truck, bearing the message “IDSA Lyme Guidelines destroy lives.... Read More »

  LymeDisease.org will soon launch a patient-powered research project called MyLymeData. It promises to be the largest study of chronic Lyme patients ever. Our latest issue of The Lyme Times explains all about it. If you are a member of LymeDisease.org, this is on its way to... Read More »

LymeDisease.org CEO Lorraine Johnson has been selected to participate in a White House forum hosted by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and Domestic Policy Council, “Open Science and Innovation: Of the People, By the People, For the People,”... Read More »

by Kris Newby, Sept. 2, 2015 Meet Dan Salkeld, PhD, a disease ecologist and friend, shown here looking for ticks on a wood rat from the San Francisco Bay Area. According to Popular Science, he has one of the worst jobs in science: tick collecting. But thanks to the nitpicky... Read More »

In early October, the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA)—you know, the Lyme denialists, the ones who insist chronic Lyme doesn’t exist, who make it so difficult even for patients with acute Lyme to get properly diagnosed and treated, who make it easy for your insurance... Read More »