Lyme Blog Posts
TOUCHED BY LYME: Lyme patient/physician coalition goes international
The Ad Hoc Patient and Physician Coalition—formed to protest the recent IDSA Lyme treatment guidelines—now has 52 member organizations from three countries. (Sept. 6 update:…
IDSA guidelines process excluded chronic Lyme patients and their physicians
The Lyme community has many objections to the latest Lyme treatment guidelines proposed by the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA). The following is an…
TOUCHED BY LYME: Finally, easier way to comment on IDSA guidelines
The Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) has finally lowered yet another barrier to commenting on its new Lyme treatment guidelines. Let me put this…
TOUCHED BY LYME: IDSA guidelines deny Lyme diagnosis to most of the USA
Question: why does an organization that is supposedly set up to cure sick people—the Infectious Diseases Society of America—spend so much time and effort to…
LYME SCI: Early diagnosis necessitates Lyme-savvy doctors
The following are my written comments to the ninth meeting of the Tick-borne Disease Working Group (TBDWG) on June 4, 2019. Dear Members of the…
TOUCHED BY LYME: IDSA extends comment period and allows downloads
Hours before its self-imposed deadline of August 10, the Infectious Diseases Society has given a brief reprieve to frustrated patients trying to comment on the…
TOUCHED BY LYME: New source of financial aid for Lyme patients
Back in 2011, a young Florida woman named Wendy Phillips traveled to Vermont with her now-husband to attend a wedding. At one point, they walked…
Managing stress and tension to heal gut and brain from chronic Lyme
One thing Lyme disease teaches us relentlessly is where we hold stress and tension in our bodies. There’s always something legitimate to feel stressed about…
TOUCHED BY LYME: Aug.10 deadline for IDSA comments; archive them, too
In June, the IDSA released a draft of its new Lyme disease treatment guidelines. The organization has asked for feedback from healthcare professionals as well…
Ticks are one way tularemia can be spread. Rabbits are another.
By Briana Zellner Ticks can be hosts to many different infectious diseases including Lyme disease and Rocky Mountain spotted fever. However, you may not be…
New York resident dies of tick-borne Powassan virus
A resident of New York State has died from Powassan virus, a disease spread by infected ticks. It is the first known Powassan-related fatality in…
A bold plan against Lyme and other tick-borne diseases
By Barbara Keber, MD, and Holly Ahern We need a national public-private strategy that abandons our current low-impact approach to diseases brought by ticks. If…