Lyme Blog Posts
“Vehement objections” to having Wormser on federal Lyme panel
Melissa Ferwerda Bell is President of the Florida Lyme Disease Association and co-founder of The Lyme Disease Challenge (which has raised global awareness of Lyme…
TOUCHED BY LYME: Update of our protest about Dr. Gary Wormser
As I write this on Monday morning, Dec. 4, more than 8500 (update: 10,000+) people have signed our petition to remove Dr. Gary Wormser from…
CDC website removes link to IDSA guidelines. Just lipstick on a pig?
Thanks to Lyme advocates on Facebook this morning for pointing out that the CDC Lyme pages were updated on Dec.1, 2017, with a number of…
Conflicts of interest make Wormser wrong choice for Lyme panel
Click here to sign our Change.org petition to HHS The federal Tick-Borne Disease Working Group was established by 2016’s 21st Century Cures Act. The idea…
TOUCHED BY LYME: The healing power of gratitude ornaments
The following is republished from my blog last year. It has been updated slightly. Guest blog by Rachel Leland In November of 2015, I was…
The “huge connection” between Lyme disease and hearing loss
David Michael Conner has published two companion blogs on the Huffington Post related to how Lyme disease can lead to hearing loss. The first is…
Members named for federal Tick-Borne Disease Working Group
The United States Department of Health and Human Services has finally named members of the TBD Working Group that was established by the 21st Century…
TOUCHED BY LYME: An intriguing short film about Lyme disease
Let’s say you are an up-and-coming actor/writer in Hollywood, in your 20s. You work on some films, you meet people in the industry, and it…
Thanksgiving in the Lyme world, 2017
Along with new and continuing challenges for the Lyme community, there is also much to be grateful for this Thanksgiving season. Here’s some of what’s…
Healing is not just about one thing–and it’s a continuing process
By Cherie Kephart On tax day, April 15, 2004, when most of the United States was rushing to the post office before the tax deadline,…
LYME SCI: My live-tweets from Day One of ILADS 2017
My twitter-finger was working overtime last weekend at the International Lyme and Associated Diseases conference in Boston. Here’s a running list of what I tweeted…
Lyme patients file lawsuit against IDSA and insurers over treatment denials
From Courthouse News Service, Nov. 14, 2017: TEXARKANA, Texas (CN) – Twenty-eight people claim in a federal antitrust lawsuit that Lyme disease victims are being…