Lyme Blog Posts
“Conquering Lyme Disease: Science Bridges the Great Divide”
From the website of Columbia University Press: Lyme disease is the most common tick-borne illness in the United States, with more than 300,000 cases diagnosed…
“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…
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,…
Watch Ally Hilfiger’s speech about her Lyme disease experience
Ally Hilfiger, daughter of fashion mogul Tommy Hilfiger, was bitten by a tick when she was seven—and her life was never the same again. She…
Dr. Jane Marke on the psychiatric manifestations of Lyme disease
Dr. Jane Marke, an integrative psychiatrist who has made a subspecialty of treating patients with tick-borne disease, recently spoke at the Central Massachusetts Lyme Foundation’s…
A family’s story: Overcoming Lyme disease to fish again
By Jackie Zulli On a recent Saturday morning, an hour before the crack of dawn, my 16-year-old son, Andrew and his fishing buddy/teammate climbed into…
Grieve your losses from Lyme, and then persevere
By Thaiadora Katsos Dorow As a young adult, I was enthusiastic, ambitious, active, healthy, joyful. I was in great physical shape, I had a busy…
My circuitous route to a Lyme diagnosis
By Jacquelyn Golan Two years ago, if you had asked me to tell you about myself, it would have gone something like this: I am 30…
3 things to watch for: summer flu, school phobia, abdominal migraines
By Dr. Elena Frid The summer is officially behind us and the school year is back in full swing. As we put the long summer…
New Borrelia species named for tick expert Robert Lane
By Phyllis Mervine A research group led by Gabriele Margos, PhD, a German biologist, has proposed naming a recently identified species in the genus…
Allodynia feels like sand paper rubbing across a sunburn
By Sophia Galpin Allodynia is pain produced by a non-painful stimulus–something that shouldn’t normally cause you pain such as wind or light touch. Usually, when…
Professor Holly Ahern on Lyme disease: How did we get here?
Professor Holly Ahern, of State University of New York Adirondack, has extensive teaching and research experience in bacteriology and molecular biology. She’s the author of…