Lyme Blog Posts
New drug eradicates Lyme disease bacteria in lab mice and cultures
by Kris Newby In 2002, my husband and I became seriously ill after a vacation to Martha’s Vineyard. It took ten doctors and a year…
LYME SCI: Preventing COVID-19 with masks is a good idea after all
The former head of the Food and Drug Administration, Dr. Scott Gottlieb, and his colleagues at American Enterprise Institute (AEI), have rolled out “A Road…
COVID-19’s daunting challenges for families with Lyme and PANS/PANDAS
by Sandra Berenbaum, LCSW, BCD While the world deals with COVID-19—how to be safe, how to protect our citizens and essential medical workers, and the…
LYME SCI: How long can coronavirus last on surfaces, anyway?
Imagine that the novel coronavirus is glitter. As you walk into a store, you touch a door coated with glitter. Now the glitter is on…
LYME SCI: Reducing anxiety and stress about COVID-19
California’s governor has ordered the entire state to “shelter at home.” Other localities are restricting people’s movements as well. Millions of Americans are either working…
LYME SCI: How the 5 P’s can help you survive these coronavirus times
Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization, recently sent the following tweet. There’s been so much attention on one word. But these…
TOUCHED BY LYME: Let’s call it physical—not social—distancing, okay?
With the coronavirus pandemic, we’re learning the importance of staying home and avoiding public spaces—and physical encounters with other people. But the term “social distancing”…
TOUCHED BY LYME: Lyme awareness in the time of coronavirus
I was scheduled to address the Redbud Chapter of the Audubon Society on March 19. My talk, “What birders need to know about ticks and…
Does your child have a mental illness or a medical disorder?
By Daniel A. Kinderlehrer, MD Brad’s parents brought him to see me when he was eleven years old. He was scratched by a cat at…
Researchers identify another promising drug for Lyme disease–azlocillin
By Tracie White, Stanford University For decades, the routine treatment for Lyme disease has been standard antibiotics, which usually kill off the infection. But for…
Condemned to a life of debilitating illness? There’s a better way.
Phyllis Mervine gave the following public comments via telephone, during the recent federal Tick-Borne Disease Working Group meeting. The single most important thing the Working…
Accelerating pace, increasing depth and breadth of Lyme disease research
Mira Shapiro delivered the following public comments at the recent meeting of the federal Tick-Borne Disease Working Group in Philadelphia. My name is Mira Shapiro….