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Research from UCLA suggests that many physicians may not have the knowledge or training to properly recognize how Lyme disease appears on the skin of Black people. In a study just published in the peer-reviewed Journal of General Internal Medicine, UCLA’s Dr. Dan Ly analyzed data... Read More »

From journalist Mary Beth Pfeiffer on Facebook: Torrey v. IDSA update: I am saddened to report that the lawsuit on behalf Lyme disease patients has been dismissed in federal court in Texas. Below is an excerpt from the court’s recent ruling dismissing the claim that IDSA... Read More »

The University of Arizona’s Cronkite News Service looks at the issue of Lyme disease–and how hard it is for people to get effectively treated. Prominently featured in the story: LymeDisease.org’s Lorraine Johnson and our MyLymeData patient registry. By Emily... Read More »

The House of Representatives this week passed an amendment offered by New Jersey Congressman Chris Smith, directing the federal government’s “watchdog” agency to investigate the Department of Defense’s (DOD) possible weaponization of ticks and other insects with Lyme disease... Read More »

News Center Maine, an NBC affiliate in Portland, provides regular coverage of issues related to Lyme and other tick-borne diseases. This week, the TV news show examined the alternative treatment of cold laser therapy. Click below to see Vivien Leigh’s report. Read More »

by Kris Newby Communications Director, Invisible International Monica Embers, PhD, director of the vector-borne disease research center at Tulane University School of Medicine, summarizes evidence that suggests that Lyme bacteria can survive long after standard treatment... Read More »

LymeDisease.org’s Lonnie Marcum live-tweeted the August 26 meeting of the Tick-Borne Disease Working Group. Look below for her summary of what happened. (Slide the bar on the right to advance the images.) Read More »

The US Department of Health and Human Services today installed what is likely to be the last panel of the federal Tick-Borne Disease Working Group. The co-chairs of the 2021-2022 panel are Holiday Goodreau, Executive Director of the LivLyme Foundation, and Dr. Linden Hu,... Read More »

Columbia Magazine (Columbia University in New York City) August 19, 2021 By David J. Craig …With a $16 million gift from the Steven and Alexandra Cohen Foundation, the group, led by Brian Fallon, a professor of psychiatry at Columbia University Irving Medical Center (CUIMC)... Read More »