Focus – Opinions and Features

By Kris Newby, Invisible International In 2019, the late-great-science-writer Sharon Begley wrote an insightful article, “The maddening saga of how an Alzheimer’s ‘cabal’ thwarted progress toward a cure for decades.” Begley’s reporting described how a powerful group of... Read More »

By Meg Huber For six and a half years of my life, I was in the exact same situation nearly weekly—sitting in a doctor’s office being asked to rate my pain using a scale from 1-10. The numbers were abstract while my pain, though ever-changing, was a concrete reality. How could I... Read More »

By Debbie Kimberg For years, I had no idea that I was infected with Lyme disease and related illnesses. There was nothing obvious, like pain or chronic fatigue. Instead, my symptoms were mild and crept up on me insidiously over my lifetime: anxiety, social anxiety, irritability,... Read More »

By Dr. Rosalie Greenberg As I was looking at a recent edition of the New Jersey Star Ledger,  I was struck by a lengthy article entitled, “Saving Charlie.”(1) Reporter Adam Clark chronicled the struggles of a suicidal teenager and his family’s ongoing efforts to get him proper... Read More »

By Steve Doherty I was bitten on the neck by a tick in 1996, while camping in southern Mississippi. But I didn’t notice or remove the tick until five days after I returned home. Looking back, I now recognize the subtle symptoms in the years following, such as hand rashes,... Read More »

By Casey Fillian Thirty-seven years ago, I went to summer camp in a heavily wooded area of New Jersey. I started coming down with odd symptoms a few weeks later. I had high fevers, exhaustion, muscle aches, a mysterious rash on my torso, and a knee swollen twice its size. For... Read More »

Cortney McCord delivered the following public comment at the Feb.28 meeting of the federal Tick-Borne Disease Working Group. My name is Cortney McCord. I’m a 41-year-old registered nurse from Northeast Mississippi. On May 8, 2021, I found a deer tick on my leg. I developed an... Read More »

Jody Hudson delivered the following remarks as public comment to the federal Tick-Borne Disease Working Group on Feb.28. Have we heard from a doctor yet? Is someone going to be able to help me? These were the same questions that my 22-year-old daughter Alex had asked over the... Read More »

Bonnie Crater gave the following public comment at the February 28 meeting of the federal Tick-Borne Disease Working Group. I’m Bonnie Crater from Portola Valley, CA.  I co-founded the Bay Area Lyme Foundation which is the largest public charity funding Lyme disease research in... Read More »