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: Lyme education outreach for San Francisco cabbies
Robin Krop, a San Francisco Lyme activist, finds herself riding taxis several times a week, because she has a bad hip and bouncing buses are…
NEWS: CALDA founder and president Phyllis Mervine wins prestigious Jefferson Award
Phyllis Mervine, founder and president of the California Lyme Disease Association, has been honored by the American Institute for Public Service for her advocacy work…
TOUCHED BY LYME: Foundation shines light on Lyme in Australia
The widow of a man who died from complications of Lyme–even though officials say the disease doesn't exist in Australia–has formed a foundation in his…
LYMEPOLICYWONK: TO TELL THE TRUTH. . . Reports of Antibiotic Lyme Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated.
Dr. David Resnik at the University of Wyoming is a plainspoken public health care policy ethicist. When he describes the obligation that governments and others…
LYMEPOLICYWONK: CALDA CALLS ON NIH TO STOP TICK FEEDING STUDY ON ETHICAL GROUNDS
CALDA has just sent a letter to National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) asking them to pull the plug on an experiment…
LYMEPOLICYWONK: Ringing out the old year: Stricker & Johnson Publications 2010
During 2010, Dr. Stricker and I published nine articles or letters on Lyme disease. Shortly after the New Year, another publication by us came…
TOUCHED BY LYME: Helpful book about everything to do with PICC lines now available free on the internet
(Book review) INFUSING FOR LYMIES: A step-by-step guide with money-saving tips for buying and infusing IV medications, maintaining a PICC line, minimizing the herx reaction,…
HARD SCIENCE ON LYME: Blood Transfusion Risk of Babesia Unacceptable
David Leiby, of the Red Cross, has declared the risk of blood transfusion for Babesia microti to be unacceptably high. Babesia microti is a…
TOUCHED BY LYME: Florida patients protest local reprinting of now-infamous Chicago Tribune article; “There’s been enough bashing of Lyme patients.”
A small band of Florida Lyme patients gathered outside the offices of the Orlando Sentinel newspaper Friday, to protest its reprinting of the Chicago Trib's…
TOUCHED BY LYME: Overcoming the "dork factor" when it comes to tick protection
Does anybody really tuck their pants in their socks?
LYMEPOLICYWONK: IDSA GUIDELINES LACK EVIDENCE—DON’T CALL IT EVIDENCE BASED IF IT’S JUST YOUR OPINION
A recent study evaluated over 4,200 IDSA guideline recommendations and concluded that more than half—really?—more than HALF? were based on no more than expert opinion…
LYMEPOLICYWONK: Intellectual Conflicts of Interest–A New Way to Smell a Rat?
Here’s an interesting approach to conflicts of interests offered by one of the fathers of evidence based medicine, Dr. Gordon Guyatt. The topic was guideline…