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Five herbal medicines had potent activity compared to commonly-used antibiotics in test tubes against Babesia duncani. B. duncani is a malaria-like parasite carried by ticks which causes the disease babesiosis. Published in the journal Frontiers in Cellular and Infection... Read More »

NextGov.com, March 5, 2021 by Brandi Vincent The Health and Human Services Department recently kicked off market research to inform an ambitious, multimillion-dollar effort to spur rapid breakthroughs against Lyme disease, a common tick-borne illness that can upend lives. “With... Read More »

New York State’s legislature has less than a month to agree on a budget for the 2021-22 fiscal year. The current version proposed by the Governor includes nothing for Lyme disease research, education or prevention. To put a spotlight on why she thinks that’s a bad... Read More »

One of the thorniest issues in Lyme disease has to do with the use of antibiotics. These are some of the questions we have sought to answer through our MyLymeData patient registry: Why do some people improve substantially with antibiotic treatment, while others do not? What... Read More »

by Cheryl Bell, Dalhousie University At the end of August 2019, a patient booked an urgent appointment with her dentist. A painful toothache had woken her the night before. Her symptoms also included intense pain in her jaw, temple, and neck, accompanied by a tingling on her... Read More »

A bill requiring health officials to keep track of people who have died of Lyme and other tick-borne diseases has passed the New York State Senate and now goes to the Assembly. The bill (S.677A) requires coroners, pathologists and medical examiners to report promptly to the local... Read More »

Vogue, Feb. 11, 2021 by Freddie Braun Since her diagnosis, the model, reality-TV star and mother to models Gigi, Bella and Anwar has made it her mission to lift the veil on Lyme disease, a tick-borne illness that affects hundreds of thousands. Here, she tells us how love has... Read More »

The federal Tick-Borne Disease Working Group has submitted its 2020 Report to Congress. The document is now available to the public on the Health and Human Services website. Click here to download your own copy.                 Read More »

Kristina Bauer of the Texas Lyme Alliance and the Disulfiram for Lyme website has posted two new YouTube videos, interviewing Dr. Daniel Kinderlehrer. They discussed his new book “Recovery from Lyme Disease: The Integrative Medicine Guide to Diagnosing and Treating... Read More »