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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 »

Press release from the University of California, Davis: July 2, 2015 The bacteria that cause Lyme disease are able to trick an animal’s immune system into not launching a full-blown immune response or developing lasting immunity to the disease, report researchers at the... Read More »

Press release from Brigham and Women’s Hospital, June 4, 2015: From a single drop of blood, researchers can now simultaneously test for more than 1,000 different strains of viruses that currently or have previously infected a person. Using a new method known as VirScan,... Read More »

Press release from Northeastern University, June 1, 2015: North­eastern Uni­ver­sity researchers have found that the bacterium that causes Lyme dis­ease forms dor­mant per­sister cells, which are known to evade antibi­otics. This significant finding, they said, could help explain... Read More »

Our latest issue looks at the troubling case of Vicki Logan, a cautionary tale by Dr. Kenneth Liegner. Other topics in this issue: lab tests for Lyme, co-infections, the ILADS guidelines, Dr. Richard Horowitz, patient support groups…and much more. The issue is mailed free... Read More »

The IDSA's Lyme review panel is supposed to consider the "patient perspective." Read More »

The Infectious Diseases Society of America recently announced that it will finally be updating its Lyme disease guidelines. They have opened a 30-day window for the public to comment on their guideline development process. I’ve only had a few days to review their proposal, but I... Read More »