Lyme Blog Posts
Details on how Lyme spirochetes persist after antibiotics
Lyme disease researcher Monica Embers, PhD, recently joined Robert Herriman, MPH, on Outbreak News This Week Radio Show. They discussed two of Dr. Embers’ published…
TOUCHED BY LYME: Book calls epidemic “global and dangerous”
The story of Lyme disease in the modern world is maddeningly complex. To even begin to properly tell it, you need to give context about…
FDA approves first test to screen for Babesia in US blood supply
Press release from US Food and Drug Administration, March 6, 2018: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved the Imugen Babesia microti Arrayed Fluorescent Immunoassay (AFIA),…
TBD Working Group member resigns; changes to subcommittees also
Karen Vanderhoof-Forschner has resigned her position as a member of the federal Tick-Borne Disease Working Group. The Department of Health and Human Services announced that news,…
LYME SCI: MCAS, when the immune system goes haywire
We’re hearing from increasing numbers of Lyme patients who have suddenly developed serious allergic reactions to foods they used to be able to eat with…
Morgellons Disease is Not a Delusion, Says New Study
Press release from Charles E Holman Morgellons Disease Foundation, March 5, 2018: When does a “delusion” become reality? That question is addressed in the review…
What people with Lyme can learn from the disability community
Working at a job while you have a chronic illness, such as Lyme disease, can be challenging. One way to approach these challenges is to…
TOUCHED BY LYME: Women and Lyme disease. What’s going on?
Sini Anderson is a filmmaker and artist who directed The Punk Singer, a 2013 documentary about musician Kathleen Hanna and her experience with late-stage Lyme…
Florida TV reporter’s own Lyme story and long road to diagnosis
TV anchorwoman Nicole Sommavilla works for Suncoast News Network in Sarasota, Florida. This week, she started a multi-part series on Living with Lyme. It’s based…
Diagnosing many tick-borne diseases with just one blood test?
Press release from Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health: A new blood test called the Tick-Borne Disease Serochip (TBD Serochip) promises to revolutionize the diagnosis…
LYME SCI: B. miyamotoi has been in California ticks for a long time
Like forensic detectives, using a bank of frozen blood serum from the 1980s, tick researchers from both the west and east coasts set out to…
Meditation and the brain’s power for self-healing
by Shona Curley I was a healthy, active woman until about 2014. I danced professionally in my twenties, began teaching Pilates to support my dance habit…