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Press release from the US Department of Health and Human Services: Today, at the virtual LymeMIND conference, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Steven & Alexandra Cohen Foundation announced a new $25 million-dollar, public-private partnership —... Read More »

The next meeting of the federal Tick-Borne Disease Working Group (TBDWG) will be held on October 27,  from 9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., ET. This is an online meeting and is open to the public. During this meeting, the TBDWG will review chapters and the template for the 2020 report to... Read More »

As part of our mission to accelerate research in Lyme disease, we are providing you with this information from Adaptive Biotechnologies about its clinical study to advance diagnostics for Lyme disease. Learn more and enroll by visiting www.ImmuneSenseStudy.com. Adaptive... Read More »

by Emily Arntsen, Northeastern University Fatigue, muscles aches, brain fog—are these symptoms of chronic Lyme disease, or merely side effects of the daily grind of human existence? It’s hard to tell. Chronic Lyme disease, also known as post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome or... Read More »

NewsNation (WGN), Sept. 28, 2020 By Felicia Bolton A 17-year-old girl and her doctor continue to battle her chronic Lyme disease from a tick bite years prior and controversy in the medical community. In 2015, Julia Bruzzese was an active, outgoing 11-year-old, but in May of that... Read More »

Johns Hopkins Medicine pain experts have joined the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) and collaborators worldwide to make a subtle but important update to the definition of “pain” for the first time in 40 years. With this change, the experts aim to make pain... Read More »

The federal Tick-Borne Disease Working Group met online September 22. The panel continued to work its way through its proposed Report to Congress. LymeDisease.org’s Lonnie Marcum live-tweeted the event. Move the slider bar below to scroll through her summary of what... Read More »

The federal Tick-Borne Disease Working Group met online September 15. The panel continued to work its way through its proposed Report to Congress. LymeDisease.org blogger Lonnie Marcum live-tweeted the event. Here’s a summary of what transpired. Read More »

By Renee Chmiel, University of New Haven Eva Sapi, Ph.D., has long been on the front lines in the search for a cure for Lyme disease – a disease that she herself contracted several years ago. Director of the University’s Lyme Disease Research Group, Dr. Sapi is an internationally... Read More »