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Press release from FDA, July 10, 2018. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today is requiring safety labeling changes for a class of antibiotics called fluoroquinolones to strengthen the warnings about the risks of mental health side effects and serious blood sugar... Read More »

From the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, July 9, 2018: In the eastern US, risk of contracting Lyme disease is higher in fragmented forests with high rodent densities and low numbers of resident fox, opossum, and raccoons. These are among the findings from an analysis of 19... Read More »

Wall Street Journal, July 9, 2018 by Sumathi Reddy Efforts to bring a vaccine for Lyme disease to the market have run aground amid heated debate over the years. Now, a European company is in the early stages of creating a vaccine for the increasingly common tick-borne disease.... Read More »

Press release from New York Assemblymember Didi Barrett, July 3, 2018: As New York enters the height of tick season, and as a new and rare tick-borne disease is emerging in the region, Assemblymember Didi Barrett (D – Columbia, Dutchess) announced the passage of two... Read More »

The Lyme community is very concerned about how the federal Tick-Borne Disease Working Group (TBDWG) will approach the question of a Lyme vaccine in its upcoming report to Congress. The following written comments regarding the Lyme vaccine were recently submitted to the TBDWG by... Read More »

Vox.com, July 27, 2018: By German Lopez Voters in Oklahoma on Tuesday elected to legalize medical marijuana, which makes the state the 30th to allow the use of cannabis for medicinal purposes. Oklahoma State Question 788 allows individuals 18 and older to obtain a medical... Read More »

From the Health and Human Services website: The seventh meeting of the Tick-borne Disease Working Group will be held on July 24, 2018, from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. EDT. The Working Group will review and vote on the content of the five chapters that will be submitted into the... Read More »

Slate.com, June 27, 2018: by Maya Dusenbury and Julie Rehmeyer “A close look at the evidence suggests the controversial diagnosis should be taken more seriously, and that decades of sexism may be to blame for our collective dismissal.”   Porochista Khakpour’s new... Read More »

Scientific American, June 26, 2018: by Melinda Wenner Moyer Last August Tadhgh Rainey, division manager at the Hunterdon County Division of Public Health Services in Flemington, N.J., received an odd phone call. An assistant in a nearby building excitedly explained to him that a... Read More »