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The Clinical Trials Network for Lyme and Other Tick-borne Diseases, established with a grant from the Steven & Alexandra Cohen Foundation to Columbia University, aims to find more effective treatments for people suffering from Lyme-related conditions. Under the leadership of... Read More »

A pioneer in the fight against Lyme disease, Dr. Nick Harris, the founder of IGeneX, Inc., has died. In the 1990s. Dr. Harris developed a groundbreaking diagnostic test for Lyme disease, which has helped untold thousands of Lyme patients to get accurately diagnosed. The company... Read More »

Illinois State Rep. Dan Swanson has earned unanimous support for HR 780, a House Resolution that declares May 2022 as Lyme Disease Awareness Month. Swanson, a member of the House Lyme Disease Task Force, says the Resolution is meant to encourage the federal government to do more... Read More »

The next meetings of the federal Tick-Borne Disease Working Group will be held online April 27-28. Click here for the agenda. Click here to join the meeting.         . Read More »

Doug Dollemore, University of Utah Understanding how and why Lyme arthritis occurs has puzzled scientists for decades. In a step toward unraveling this mystery, University of Utah Health researchers report they have discovered a new genetic pathway that could help explain why... Read More »

Bonnie Crater, of the Center for Lyme Action, provides the following update on federal Lyme disease funding. Nearly three times the funding in three years Our work together in the last few years has been very effective.  When we started on this journey Lyme and Tick-borne disease... Read More »

Three New York state senators today joined Lyme and tick-borne disease advocates from across NY in a virtual press conference. The final state budget, slated to pass by April 1, currently contains no new funding to combat Lyme and tick-borne diseases. Senator Sue Serino says this... Read More »

MilTICK is a free tick testing and identification service available for ticks removed from Department of Defense (DoD) personnel and their dependents. Any tick found biting an eligible person can be submitted to MilTICK by health care providers through tick kits available at DoD... Read More »

Yale University researchers have found widespread evidence of Borrelia miyamotoi—a relative to the bacterium that causes Lyme disease—in human blood samples in the northeastern United States. “We’re talking about the possibility of tens of thousands of New England residents... Read More »