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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has announced that there were 38, 069 reported cases of Lyme disease in the US in 2015—an all-time high. The agency has long said that the true number of diagnosed cases is ten times the number of officially reported cases—which... Read More »

Fox5NY follows up on last summer’s groundbreaking LYME & REASON: THE CAUSE & CONSEQUENCE OF LYME DISEASE. Part two, “The Voices of Change” focuses on the use of social media as a tool to inform and open the door to change on the Lyme disease front, and... Read More »

Bethesda Magazine profiles a Maryland physician who has risked his medical license to help Lyme patients. From Bethesda Magazine, November-December 2016 By David Frey When Melissa Brinsfield wakes up, she never knows if it’s going to be a good day or a bad one. Will she be able... Read More »

Press release, November 8, 2016: Johns Hopkins University received a $10 million grant from the Steven and Alexandra Cohen Foundation to explore Lyme disease and develop potential new therapies to address the illness. Johns Hopkins is the only institution in the nation to receive... Read More »

LiveScience.com, October 27, 2016: by Sara G. Miller The death of a 68-year-old Tennessee man in 2015 sheds light on a rare tick-borne pathogen known as the Heartland virus, according to a new report of the man’s case. When doctors analyzed tissue samples from the... Read More »

The following abstract is from the Journal of Clinical Research & Bioethics, online first October 24, 2016 by Neha Jariwala, Erum Ilyas and Herbert B Allen “Primum non nocere” (first do no harm) is a medical dictum based in antiquity. Yet, in nearly everything related to Lyme... Read More »

Press release from Charles E. Holman Morgellons Disease Foundation, Oct. 18, 2016: Morgellons disease is a poorly understood condition characterized by spontaneously occurring, slowly healing skin lesions containing multicolored filaments and accompanied by symptoms such as... Read More »

From the Lyme Disease Challenge: The International Lyme and Associated Diseases Educational Foundation (ILADEF) and the Lyme Disease Challenge have collaborated to launch the #getlymesmart Lyme disease awareness campaign in New York City’s Times Square. On one of the huge... Read More »

STAT, a health and science publication affiliated with the Boston Globe, has published an explosive article about a long-ignored factor that may hold a clue to the mystery of Lyme disease.  SPECIAL REPORT from STAT, October 12, 2016: . The ‘Swiss Agent’:... Read More »