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Newsday, July 4, 2017 by Mary Beth Pfeiffer Nev Zubcevik is a rare doctor: She runs a clinic that treats late-stage Lyme disease. It has 100 patients waiting to get in and no openings until March of 2018. “Between yesterday and today,” she told me recently, “I got six texts about... Read More »

Cape Cod Times, July 3, 2017: by Cynthia McCormick Tracey Hanna faced a series of unexpected goodbyes after her partner, Alan, was suddenly stricken with encephalitis in mid-December. …Finally, on Jan. 6, the family gathered around as Alan, who worked at a Cape public works... Read More »

New York-based singer/songwriter Jesse Ruben’s career was once sidelined for two and a half years due to a debilitating case of Lyme disease. As he recently wrote on Facebook: “Sometimes I write songs because I want to, and sometimes I write songs because I have to.... Read More »

Rolling Stone magazine, June 20, 2017: by Winona Dimeo-Ediger In 2004, Kelly Osbourne was bitten by a tick. Her dad burned it off with a match and that, she thought, was the end of that. But in the years that followed, she suffered from persistent body aches, headaches, stomach... Read More »

On June 23, 2017, our CEO, Lorraine Johnson, JD, MBA joined Robert Herriman, MPH on the Outbreak News This Week Radio Show to discuss the scientific and ethical issues surrounding the CDC’s recent Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) on the use of IV antibiotics for... Read More »

On June 17, 2017, David Michael Conner of the Huffington Post published a long message to the editors of the Washington Post, objecting to their recent article about Lyme disease and the CDC.  Conner states in part: Your publication, the Washington Post, on June 15 published an... Read More »

The CDC’s June 15 article in MMWR, which slams “chronic Lyme” treatments—and by extension, Lyme patients and the doctors who treat them—continues to draw sharp responses from the Lyme disease community. ILADS physician Raphael Stricker, MD, and his frequent co-author,... Read More »

A response to this week’s CDC article on Lyme disease. By Patricia Smith, Lyme Disease Association, June 14, 2017:   The time has come when the public is entitled to know who in government or elsewhere is controlling the treatment of Lyme disease. 43 years into the... Read More »

This week, CDC employees published an article about five patients who had “adverse effects” after undergoing “unproven” treatments for Lyme disease. What they failed to disclose, however, is that their report was based on questionable research conducted by the CDC–research... Read More »