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  In an op-ed piece in a Connecticut newspaper, two scientists from the Global Lyme Alliance call for more NIH funding for Lyme disease research.      Hartford Courant, March 6, 2016 It’s now 35 years since a corkscrew-shaped bacterium was identified as the... Read More »

Los Angeles, February 23 — LymeDisease.org, the leading research advocacy organization for Lyme disease, announced today that Lorraine Johnson, chief executive officer, has been invited by the White House to participate in the upcoming Precision Medicine Initiative Summit on... Read More »

HEALTH NEWS FROM NPR February 22, 2016   As public health officials struggle to contain the Zika virus, science writer Sonia Shah tells Fresh Air’s Dave Davies that epidemiologists are bracing themselves for what has been called the next “Big One” — a... Read More »

Press Release February 23, 2016 WEST HAVEN, CONN. – Many of the 300,000 patients who contract Lyme disease each year know that curing it isn’t easy. Often, it seems to recur as soon as the antibiotics are discontinued, and doctors are reluctant to offer more and more rounds of... Read More »

Lymedisease.org CEO, Lorraine Johnson was recently interviewed about MyLymeData by reporter Richard Knox of WBUR-Boston, an NPR affiliate, for an article about Big Data and Lyme disease. Along with Johnson, John Aucott, MD, director of the Lyme Disease Clinical Research Center at... Read More »

  Press release, February 13, 2016: Over the past 40 years, little has been learned about how to prevent, diagnose and effectively treat one of the most complex infectious diseases in the country — chronic Lyme disease. But now, big data tools like patient registries... Read More »

  Press release from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Feb. 12, 2016: When it comes to early diagnosis of Lyme disease, the insidious tick-borne illness that afflicts about 300,000 Americans annually, finding the proverbial needle in the haystack... Read More »

The National Guidelines Clearinghouse–a federal database that provides treatment information to health care professionals and insurance companies–has removed the IDSA Lyme disease treatment guidelines from its website recently. This means that the only Lyme disease... Read More »

From Purdue University, February 9, 2016 WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – An international team of scientists led by Purdue University has sequenced the genome of the tick that transmits Lyme disease, the most common vector-borne illness in North America. The decadelong project,... Read More »