LymeSci Blog
Lonnie Marcum
is a Physical Therapist, with a dual degree in health administration and physical therapy. She has a passion for helping people heal from illness and injury by treating the whole body. She became active in the Lyme community after her daughter was diagnosed with tick-borne diseases in 2013. She now devotes much time to learning about Lyme and related conditions, and sharing that knowledge via social media. In addition, she has served as a member of the HHS Tick-Borne Disease Working Group: Tick Biology, Ecology, Control Subcommittee. Her blog, LymeSci, seeks to help patients understand the science of tick-borne diseases and new developments in research.
TOUCHED BY LYME: Brain swelling and activism converge for San Francisco Lymewalk
Scheduled for brain surgery in November, Lyme patient Colby Lenz raises money for Lyme disease research.
Special double issue of Lyme Times: IDSA Hearing, Part 2
More than a year after the IDSA's historic Lyme hearing, there continue to be reverberations throughout the Lyme community. Read legal analysis, speaker presentations, and…
TOUCHED BY LYME: After battling Lyme disease, athlete en route to Budapest for next week’s World Triathlon Championships
After almost dying from Lyme disease, Pamela O'Kane will run, swim and bike in world class competition in Budapest, Hungary.
TOUCHED BY LYME: Where money for Lyme research goes
When we started publicizing that the 2010 CALDA Lymewalks are raising money for research, many people asked us what kind of research we are funding…
TOUCHED BY LYME: Transforming CALDA’s message into a fashion statement
Fiber artist/Lyme advocate Nani Lauriano Luculescu takes a CALDA T-shirt and turns it into a stunning piece of wearable art.
TOUCHED BY LYME: Son mourns parents lost to murder-suicide and chronic Lyme
On July 8th, police in Ocala, Florida, made a shocking discovery in a travel trailer at the side of a highway–the bodies of 48-year-old George…
LYMEPOLICYWONK: What Will It Be, Peer Review or Censorship: New Tick Borne Disease Journal
What are we to make of the recently launched journal “Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases” that includes on its editorial board five members of the IDSA…
LYMEPOLICYWONK: Saying what you mean and meaning what you say: Evidence, Science and the IDSA
Some people don’t think that evidence-based medicine is about evidence. They think it is about power and ownership. I was a bit stunned…
LYMEPOLICYWONK: The CDC Definition of HIV: Does History Repeat Itself?
Does history repeat itself? Did you know that the initial CDC definition of AIDS did not include women? And, because it did not…
LYMEPOLICYWONK: Thanks to Everyone Who Helped With the IDSA Petition!
CALDA and Time for Lyme (TFL) want to thank everyone for their help on the petition asking Connecticut Attorney General Blumenthal to further hold the…
LYMEPOLICYWONK: Artful Dodgers, 1,2,3 : the IDSA, the NIH and the IOM Makes Three
What do Representatives Chris Smith and Frank Wolf have in common? They know how to ask the right people hard questions. What do…
TOUCHED BY LYME: Tick-borne mystery in Folsom, CA. Can you say “tularemia”?
When the eight-year-old boy bent his head down, his mother noticed an odd little bump under his hair. Looking more closely, she saw it was…