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Former North Carolina Senator Kay Hagan, hospitalized since December, has been diagnosed with Powassan virus. Powassan is a tick-borne pathogen that can cause a variety of brain and nervous system symptoms, including encephalitis—brain inflammation—which is Hagan’s diagnosis.... Read More »

Press release from Global Network on Institutional Discrimination: February 8, 2017 Struck by a duck? Burned because your water skis caught on fire? Have a bizarre personal appearance? Fortunately, the World Health Organization has assigned over 68,000 diagnostic codes to cover... Read More »

We have completely overhauled the Lyme Times…and we think you’ll like it. It has a new, easy-to-read format. You can access every issue—including those in our extensive archive—on your computer, tablet or mobile phone. You can also print out your favorite articles. If you are a... 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 »

In a column called “The Ethicist,” the New York Times Magazine recently ran an article under the headline “What to do about a physician who may be a quack.” In it, Kwame Anthony Appiah, who teaches philosophy at New York University, answers a question by an anonymous letter... Read More »

from the Entomological Society of America, Jan. 3, 2017: Lyme disease has been spreading across the United States over the past several decades, and a new study has confirmed that ticks carrying the disease are present in eastern national parks. According to the study published... Read More »

Although an early diagnosis of Lyme disease can improve the chance of recovery for patients, it doesn’t necessarily mean they are out of the woods. MyLymeData, the largest study of Lyme disease using real-world data, has released preliminary findings of its initial survey... Read More »