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Recently, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette wrote a news story about tick-borne diseases in their state, which was distributed through a service called Pressreader. Dr. Richard Horowitz, a leading expert in treating tick-borne diseases, takes issue with many of the statements made in... Read More »

Television interview with LymeDisease.org’s Dorothy Leland. KXTV (ABC10) Sacramento, CA, March 15, 2017: By Frances Wang On Friday, the Lyme Disease Advisory Committee Meeting (LDAC) held a presentation in Sacramento, along with the California Department of Public Health (CDPH).... Read More »

Researchers at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) are calling on citizen scientists to help them get a clearer picture of what kinds of ticks inhabit different parts of Arkansas and what pathogens they carry. You can collect ticks yourself and send them to the... Read More »

The Arkansas Health Department made headlines last week for actually acknowledging two cases of Lyme disease in their state. It’s the first time they’ve admitted such a thing in 10 years. And, according to state officials, the prior two cases were not acquired in Arkansas. You... Read More »

In 2016, New York TV station Fox5 produced two comprehensive special reports about Lyme disease, entitled “Lyme and Reason: The cause and consequence of Lyme disease” and “Lyme & Reason 2.0: The Voices of Change.” LymeDisease.org CEO Lorraine Johnson... Read More »

KATV, Little Rock, Feb. 23, 2017 by Sara Cress  The Arkansas Department of Health has determined that two cases of tickborne disease met the surveillance definition for Lyme disease. This is the first time since 2007 that a case in Arkansas has met the Centers for Disease Control... Read More »

Barbara Arnold, an attorney in Oakland, California, specializes in helping people get Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) benefits after Lyme and related diseases force them out of their jobs. She has personal experience with chronic Lyme disease, being a patient herself,... Read More »

I recently attended two of Dr. Ying Zhang’s lectures at the International Lyme and Associated Diseases scientific conference in Philadelphia. Dr. Zhang is a professor of molecular microbiology and immunology at the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University. He... Read More »

Periodically, I post information about some of the findings from our big data project, MyLymeData. We call these “Quick Bytes.”  In April, my Quick Byte on neurologic Lyme disease focused on how often Lyme patients are misdiagnosed with a neurologic condition. The blog included a... Read More »