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From activists working on Massachusetts Lyme insurance bill: Approximately 200 people showed up for the hearing, and we had a strong turnout for the morning Welcome Reception and Lobby Day too (especially so, in view of the early hour and awful traffic).   . The sponsors of all... Read More »

Daniela Crair spent 4 years seeking an accurate diagnosis for the condition that was destroying her health. She was ultimately bed-ridden before finally learning that Lyme disease was responsible for her failing health. Today, after 15 months of treatment, Daniela is improving.... Read More »

From People. com, Oct. 9: BY JEFF NELSON   Yolanda Foster revealed she isn’t alone in her battle against Lyme disease: Two of her children have had a brush with the tickborne illness, too “When my two youngest children, Bella and Anwar, were diagnosed with... Read More »

When the Infectious Diseases Society of America opened its annual conference in San Diego yesterday, attendees were greeted with the sight of a mobile billboard sponsored by LymeDisease.org. The truck, bearing the message “IDSA Lyme Guidelines destroy lives.... Read More »

  LymeDisease.org will soon launch a patient-powered research project called MyLymeData. It promises to be the largest study of chronic Lyme patients ever. Our latest issue of The Lyme Times explains all about it. If you are a member of LymeDisease.org, this is on its way to... Read More »

LymeDisease.org CEO Lorraine Johnson has been selected to participate in a White House forum hosted by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and Domestic Policy Council, “Open Science and Innovation: Of the People, By the People, For the People,”... Read More »

  Vineyard Gazette, Massachusetts, Sept. 24, 2015: By Steve Myrick The cost of doxycycline, an antibiotic routinely prescribed for treatment of Lyme disease, has skyrocketed in recent months, causing consternation among Island medical and veterinary providers as well as... Read More »

  Stanford University School of Medicine scientists successfully defeated a dangerous intestinal pathogen, Clostridium difficile, with a drug targeting its toxins rather than its life. By not aiming to kill the pathogen with antibiotics, scientists were able to avoid wiping... Read More »

  From the Telegraph (UK), Sept. 22, 2015 By Sophie Jamieson The billionaire founder of Phones4U has revealed that his whole family have been struck down by the potentially deadly Lyme disease. Earlier this month John Caudwell told the Telegraph of his 20-year-old s... Read More »