Focus – Opinions and Features

By Daniel A. Kinderlehrer MD In a previous blog about disulfiram,  in July, 2019, (1) I reported on preliminary data, both in vivo and in vitro, suggesting that disulfiram may be a good drug to treat Lyme disease and babesiosis. (2-4) I can now say definitively that disulfiram is... Read More »

I recently had a long, meaningful phone conversation with my only friend in remission. She and I have very parallel health journeys, having our lowest points around the same time and almost dying around the same point as well. We ended up in remission around the same time to... Read More »

by Carolyn Cooper Degnan October is Employee Giving Month If you or your spouse works for a corporation or a governmental agency, you’ve probably heard of employee giving programs. What is employee giving? It’s a simple way to make tax-deductible donations to a charity you care... Read More »

By Tanya White Phyllis and Scott Bedford’s daughter was diagnosed with Lyme disease in 2008. At that time, they had no idea of the exhausting and expensive medical journey on which they were about to embark. Their daughter, like so many other Lyme patients, had been sick and... Read More »

by Janet Dooley In 1995, while I was living in New England, my body became hijacked by a tick bite that carried five different infections. I went to a ridiculous number of doctors and alternative practitioners and none of them could diagnose or effectively treat me. I was... Read More »

Jennifer Platt gave the following public comments at the federal Tick-Borne Disease Working Group’s Sept. 12 web-based meeting. I’m Jennifer Platt from Pittsboro, North Carolina. I have my doctorate in public health from UNC and I am co-founder of Tick-Borne Conditions... Read More »

By Paula Jackson Jones On Thursday, Sept. 5, I was invited by Sen. Susan Collins to testify at the United States Senate Aging Committee hearing on the TICK Act: An Urgent Public Health Response to Tick-Borne Diseases. It was not an easy task for me to summarize my personal story... Read More »

By Michelle McKeon If you have never experienced the traumatizing effects of Lyme, take my word, it is a complete nightmare. I spent years in pain, battling confusing symptoms and feeling as though I had very little control over my life after antibiotics failed to improve my... Read More »

One thing Lyme disease teaches us relentlessly is where we hold stress and tension in our bodies. There’s always something legitimate to feel stressed about – especially for those of us in the long process of healing from chronic Lyme. (Bio weapons, anyone? I haven’t yet... Read More »