Focus – Opinions and Features

By Ryan Prior Researcher Susannah Fox believes that no one with a new diagnosis should ever have to feel alone. When patients connect with peer support, they step into a community where they may ultimately find a starring role in pioneering solutions. Fox spent two decades... Read More »

Patients have been asking us for more information about methylene blue, an antimicrobial drug that some Lyme doctors now prescribe for a variety of conditions. We asked LymeDisease.org board member Erica Lehman, MD, to explain more about it. By Dr. Erica Lehman Methylene blue... Read More »

By Richard Wilson This is a good time to be a tick with Lyme disease to share. You and I may bemoan the weirdness of the weather, but ticks love it. As the world gets warmer and wetter, they’re partying. Ten years ago, in the wooded valley I call home, we had two distinct tick... Read More »

By Ryan Prior The National Institutes of Health should create an Office of Infection-Associated Chronic Illness Research. Reporting directly to the NIH Director, the Office would provide a timely and urgently needed command center for prioritizing innovative research across a... Read More »

By Fred Diamond When I was researching my book “Love, Hope, Lyme: What Family Members, Partners, and Friends Who Love a Chronic Lyme Survivor Need to Know,” I was surprised to find there were so many people who recovered from Lyme that wanted to help others in the community. Many... Read More »

By the Bay Area Lyme Foundation There’s been much excitement in the Lyme community regarding the founding and development of the Lyme Clinical Trials Network since it was first announced. With a $1 million seminal grant from Bay Area Lyme Foundation, the University of California,... Read More »

By ISEAI.org When one person in a household is diagnosed with mold illness, it can affect the whole family. There are often many changes needed to improve the indoor air quality in the home. These environmental and lifestyle changes affect everyone in the household, and often... Read More »

By Fred Diamond On this week’s Love, Hope, Lyme podcast, biologist and Lyme survivor Dr. Shelley Ball and I discussed neurological and cognitive issues that are common with persistent Lyme disease. There’s a chapter on neurological issues in my book Love, Hope, Lyme: What Family... Read More »

By Judith Howard I was bitten by a female deer tick in Missouri in July 2015. My doctor said there was no risk of infection at the time, and I was neither tested nor treated for tick-borne diseases. However, after both of my parents died in 2017, I began experiencing unusual... Read More »