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By Mary Beth Pfeiffer A federal lawsuit that may just validate the pain of thousands of Lyme disease patients – and the flaws in prevailing tests and treatments — is moving ahead in a Texas courthouse, despite attempts to kill it. The lawsuit’s progress is a big development... Read More »

Pat Smith, president of the Lyme Disease Association, discusses ticks, the federal Tick-Borne Disease Working Group’s recent report and proposed legislation regarding Lyme disease. She’s interviewed by journalist Larry Mendte, of television station WJLP’s... Read More »

Advocates for Lyme disease patients are calling on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to withdraw its endorsement of single-dose antibiotic prophylaxis for prevention of Lyme disease after a tick bite. A key limitation of the recommendation is that it is based... Read More »

As we reported recently, the chief medical officer for the province of Nova Scotia has raised the ire of Canada’s Lyme community. Dr. Robert Strang retweeted a posting that described chronic Lyme patients as members of a “cult” dealing in “pseudoscience.” Since then,... Read More »

Science journalist Pamela Weintraub, author of “Cure Unknown: Inside the Lyme Epidemic,” discusses the history and science of Lyme disease on the “Living with Lyme” podcast. Weintraub is health and psychology editor at Aeon, a website that covers science,... Read More »

James Delingpole is a British journalist who has Lyme disease. Spectator (UK), February 9, 2019: by James Delingpole Some medical experts claim that Lyme disease is worse than cancer. It’s not a competition, but I do know one thing: at least if you’ve got the Big C you get... Read More »

The Chronicle Herald, January 28, 2019: by Andrew Rankin HALIFAX, N.S. – A recent retweet by the province’s top doctor dismissing chronic Lyme disease as a condition based on pseudoscience and supported by a chronic Lyme cult, is being met with sharp criticism by one of... Read More »

A mom can pass the pathogen to her fetus—but the World Health Organization has removed “congenital Lyme disease” from its definitive diagnostic reference By Mary Beth Pfeiffer, Scientific American, January 25, 2019 Let’s say, for the sake of argument, you plummet from a ski... Read More »

Mary Beth Pfeiffer, author of “Lyme: The First Epidemic of Climate Change,” is the nation’s leading investigative reporter on Lyme and other tick-borne diseases. In her recent “TEDx Talk,” she discusses the expansion of ticks throughout the world,... Read More »