Lyme Blog Posts
New study finds Lyme bacteria survive a 28-day course of antibiotics
Press release from Tulane University, December 13, 2017: Bay Area Lyme Foundation, a leading sponsor of Lyme disease research in the U.S., today announced results…
TBD Working Group Day 2: Strong Words, Lingering Questions
Huffington Post, December 13, 2017: by David Michael Conner Tuesday was the second of the first two-day meeting of the HHS Federal Tick-Borne Disease Working Group….
Number one research priority for Lyme disease? Better testing.
Press release: LymeDisease.org releases “Top 10 Lyme Disease Research Questions,” as federal government weighs options in fight against growing epidemic. The nation’s top research priority…
HIV/AIDS legacy omnipresent at first TBD working group meeting
David Michael Conner was in the audience yesterday at the first meeting of the federal Tick-Borne Diseases Working Group. He filed the following report for…
“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…
LYME SCI: Please, Santa, a few requests for the Lyme community….
Worlds AIDS Day was a huge milestone for HIV, and a huge testament for what science and medicine can accomplish, when they put their minds…
TOUCHED BY LYME: More about CDC website’s deleted references to IDSA
In a recent blog, I reported on how the CDC Lyme pages have recently scrubbed away any references to the IDSA Lyme guidelines. They didn’t…
HHS says Wormser “has declined the invitation” to serve on Lyme panel
The US Department of Health and Human Services today gave us a statement regarding Dr. Gary Wormser’s position on the federal Tick-Borne Diseases Working Group….
Your voice has been heard–Wormser is off the federal Lyme panel
If you go to the US Department of Health and Human Services website, you’ll see a beautiful thing. Dr. Gary Wormser’s name has been removed…
“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…