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WBUR in Boston, July 17, 2017: Lyme disease reports have more than doubled since 2005 but the disease remains drastically under-reported. While over 5,000 case of Lyme are reported in Massachusetts each year, there are probably more than 50,000 case a year. With ticks predicted... Read More »

Poughkeepsie Journal, July 20, 2017: by John Ferro By the time Andrew Potgieter learned why he had been so sick for so many years, he had become an invalid… …On Aug. 22, 2015, Potgieter put an end to his suffering. He committed suicide at the age of 41. His suicide is... Read More »

Time Union (Albany, New York), July 17, 2017 by Claire Hughes U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand vowed Monday afternoon to push for the inclusion of chronic Lyme disease patient advocates on an advisory panel being put together in Washington, D.C. At Juckett Park in the heart of the... Read More »

At a recent press conference in Ulster County, New York, US Senator Kirsten Gillibrand called on the Trump administration to implement Lyme disease-related provisions of the 21st Century Cures Act. Click here for more about that. At the event, Gillibrand also asked New York Lyme... Read More »

Press release from the office of Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, July 10, 2017: With Lyme disease cases increasing on Long Island, U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand visited the Seatuck Environmental Association in Suffolk County to urge the Trump Administration to implement her Lyme... Read More »

New York TV journalist Mike Schneider discusses his own personal, years-long battle with chronic Lyme disease. Watch it below. Read More »

The latest issue of the digital Lyme Times includes a book excerpt from “Lyme Brain,” by Dr. Nicola McFadzean Ducharme, an interview with musician Daryl Hall, articles about the psychiatric manifestations of Lyme, Babesia in the US blood supply, recent Lyme research, patient... Read More »

Invisiverse.com, July 6, 2017 by Cynthia Wallentine It is not just a bad summer for ticks — it has been a bad decade for the spread of tick-borne infections. New surveillance from the CDC reports rapid expansion and increase in cases of babesiosis, a sometimes life-threatening... Read More »

CBCNews (Canada), July 7, 2017: by Victoria Ahearn Shania Twain was riding high in the early-2000s, coming off the smash success of the hit-packed Come On Over and the release of Up!, which topped Billboard’s album charts and got her booked to perform at the Super Bowl.... Read More »