Focus – Opinions and Features

By Dr. Steven Phillips For patients, there is often nothing more soul-crushing than being inexplicably sick with doctor after doctor having no answers, or getting the wrong diagnosis and being led down the wrong path with the wrong drugs. But for patients with Lyme disease,... Read More »

By Kristina Bauer I contracted Lyme disease and co-infections in 1980, in Fairview Heights, Illinois. I remained undiagnosed and untreated until 2012. One year later, my husband and I discovered that all four of our children had been infected at birth with congenital Lyme disease... Read More »

The following is a response to an opinion piece by two IDSA doctors in the Connecticut Mirror newspaper. In it, the doctors charge that chronic Lyme disease is a bogus diagnosis and that doctors who treat it are committing medical fraud. By Christopher Montes Chronic Lyme and... Read More »

By Ian McCartney One bright, sunny day in August 2008, a bug no bigger than a raspberry seed attached itself to the back of my leg. I had no idea that my life was about to change forever. I knew little about ticks and had never heard of Lyme disease. And, I couldn’t imagine... Read More »

Advocates on behalf of patients with Lyme and other tick-borne diseases made some headway on Capitol Hill in 2019. Of course, much work still lies before us. Bruce Fries is President of the Patient Centered Care Advocacy Group. He provides this summary of what... Read More »

By Phyllis Mervine Thirty years ago, when I started this organization, I never dreamed we would still be fighting the same battles three decades later. Accurate tests, physician education, and patient access to proper medical care are still at the forefront of what... Read More »

Neil Spector, MD, is one of the most highly regarded presenters in the Lyme disease community. He is a professor and researcher at Duke University School of Medicine.  He also wrote “Gone in a Heartbeat: A Physician’s Search for True Healing” – a memoir about his own battle with... Read More »

by Rachel Leland In November of 2015, I was in month six of what ended up being 13 months of intense mold treatment (on top of Lyme treatment). I wasn’t allowed to even step foot inside any building that hadn’t been cleared for mold. No shopping malls, no movie theaters, not even... Read More »

Minnesota’s state medical board recently lifted a moratorium on prosecuting physicians for treating Lyme outside of the strict guidelines of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. Now, doctors who prescribe long-term antibiotics for Lyme disease risk losing their... Read More »