Lyme Blog Posts
Why Congress must enact medical insurance coverage laws for Lyme patients
By Jennifer Barrett As a third-year law student, I recently wrote a law journal article entitled: It’s About Lyme: Why Congress Must Enact Medical Insurance…
Lyme and Babesia–a potent combination that’s frequently missed
By Wendy Adams, Bay Area Lyme Foundation Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last few years, you’ll have learned that tick-borne diseases…
Can chronic Lyme be cured? Dr. Christine Green answers your questions.
Christine Green, MD, is a Stanford-trained, board-certified family medicine physician with 30 years of experience treating patients with tick-borne illness. On the board of LymeDisease.org,…
Do remnants of Lyme bacteria cause ongoing brain inflammation?
By Leslie Tate, Tulane University Even after antibiotic treatment, some Lyme disease patients suffer from an array of symptoms including neurological issues that greatly diminish…
Problematic Lyme testing shortchanges patients, especially children
by Rosalie Greenberg, MD Many scientists and physicians agree that there are important issues concerning present Lyme disease (LD) testing. In this post, I will…
What can chronic Lyme disease teach us about long COVID?
By Daniel Kinderlehrer, MD One-third of patients who were sick with COVID-19 have come down with chronic symptoms, now known as long COVID or long…
The heartbreaking connection between personality changes and Lyme disease
By Nicole Danielle Bell Early in our relationship, my husband, Russ, and I never argued. We were both engineers, so our disagreements felt more logical…
Answers still needed about possible biowarfare connection to Lyme disease
By Pat Smith Forty-six years after a mother alerted public health about an unknown disease affecting her Connecticut neighborhood, patients still await answers about Lyme…
TOUCHED BY LYME: The blogs you cared about most in 2021
The team at LymeDisease.org strives to keep you up-to-date on information relevant to the Lyme community. Throughout the year, we regularly post blogs on our…
“Lyme Ease Survival Guidebook” aims to help you heal
By Jenn Hyla Growing up in Las Vegas, Nevada, I never worried much about bug bites. In fact, one of my dad’s favorite sayings when…
LYME SCI: A test to find many infections at once is on the horizon
What if you had access to a single test that could detect 3 different kinds of vector-borne bacteria all at the same time? Well, it…
Study: What if mental health is really brain health?
A new brain imaging study based on over 30 years of clinical psychiatric practice shows that mental health should be viewed as brain health. The…