Lyme Blog Posts
The heartbreaking connection between personality changes and Lyme disease
By Nicole Danielle Bell Early in our relationship, my husband, Russ, and I never argued. We were both engineers, so our disagreements felt more logical…
Answers still needed about possible biowarfare connection to Lyme disease
By Pat Smith Forty-six years after a mother alerted public health about an unknown disease affecting her Connecticut neighborhood, patients still await answers about Lyme…
TOUCHED BY LYME: The blogs you cared about most in 2021
The team at LymeDisease.org strives to keep you up-to-date on information relevant to the Lyme community. Throughout the year, we regularly post blogs on our…
“Lyme Ease Survival Guidebook” aims to help you heal
By Jenn Hyla Growing up in Las Vegas, Nevada, I never worried much about bug bites. In fact, one of my dad’s favorite sayings when…
LYME SCI: A test to find many infections at once is on the horizon
What if you had access to a single test that could detect 3 different kinds of vector-borne bacteria all at the same time? Well, it…
Study: What if mental health is really brain health?
A new brain imaging study based on over 30 years of clinical psychiatric practice shows that mental health should be viewed as brain health. The…
For the first time, Nebraska recognizes locally acquired Lyme disease
For the first time, Nebraska state health officials have acknowledged “definitive evidence” of Lyme disease acquired locally in their state. Two people bitten by ticks…
How good nutrition can help you recover from Lyme disease
By Lindsay Christensen, MS, CNS, LDN, CKNS Your immune system, brain, and gastrointestinal system, not to mention the rest of your body, require optimal nutrition…
Lyme disease can affect the heart in complicated ways
By Dr. Adrian Baranchuk Lyme disease is a tick-borne infection caused by bacteria known as Borrelia burgdorferi. Lyme carditis is an early manifestation of Lyme…
TOUCHED BY LYME: “Deep Places” explores one man’s Lyme fight
Ross Douthat was a busy man. In addition to his regular opinion column in the New York Times, he wrote books, gave speeches, traveled, interviewed…
Latest issue of LYME TIMES looks at Lyme disease and mental health
In a recent study, US and Danish researchers report that patients who received a hospital diagnosis of Lyme disease—inpatient, outpatient, or at the ER—had a 28…
TOUCHED BY LYME: Lyme film “Your Labs are Normal” now on Vimeo
Your Labs Are Normal is a powerful film that grew out of the Lyme-related experiences of a Black woman of Puerto Rican descent living in…