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Fashion designer Ally Hilfiger--daughter of fashion icon Tommy Hilfiger--spoke about her years-long experience with Lyme disease at a recent forum hosted by the advocacy organization Time for Lyme. Read More »

Writing in the British medical journal "The Lancet," several members of the IDSA Lyme treatment guidelines panel (you know, those ones found to have all those financial conflicts-of-interest), along with some of their cronies, have some uncomplimentary things to say... Read More »

A legislative committee will hold a hearing on HB 272, the Lyme and Related Tick-borne Disease Education, Prevention and Treatment Act. Among other things, the bill protects physicians who prescribe long-term treatment for Lyme disease, and requires insurance companies to cover... Read More »

The CDC has released the official numbers for notifiable diseases in the US, listing a total of 30, 158 cases of Lyme for 2010. That's some 8000 fewer cases than 2009, for which the CDC reported 38, 468. Read More »

The Lyme documentary is now available for free instant viewing at the Hulu website. Read More »

From the Wall Street Journal: More than 100 medical disorders can masquerade as psychological conditions. Studies have suggested that medical conditions may cause mental-health issues in as many as 25% of psychiatic patients and contribute to them in more than 75%. Diabetes,... Read More »

If you're a member of CALDA, look for this issue in your mailbox soon. If not, join now to start your subscription to the Lyme Times. Read More »

New York activist Lis Heininger founded a local Lyme advocacy chapter, and educates others how to avoid tick-borne diseases. Read More »

Rodale.com looks at how tick-borne infections can cause psychiatric symptoms that often go untreated. Read More »