By Milena Pastore Join Soul Tribe Yoga Collective’s Lyme Disease Awareness Month Meditation Challenge in partnership with the Colorado Tick-Borne Disease Awareness Association. This challenge and Weekly Community Meditations are open to all with tick-borne disease in all geographic regions as ... The post Lyme Awareness Month meditation challenge appeared first on LymeDisease.org ..read more

By Tulane University Tulane University researchers have identified a promising new approach to treating persistent neurological symptoms associated with Lyme disease, offering hope to patients who suffer from long-term effects of the bacterial infection, even after antibiotic treatment. Their result... The post Potential new treatment path for persistent Lyme disease? appeared first on LymeDisease.org ..read more

Lindsay Keys is co-director of the Lyme documentary “The Quiet Epidemic. “ “Law and Order” actor Chris Meloni’s family has dealt with chronic Lyme disease for years. The two have teamed up to persuade Congress to devote more resources to Lyme disease. Click below to see... The post Keys and Meloni team up to lobby Congress for Lyme help appeared first on LymeDisease.org ..read more

The Steven & Alexandra Cohen Foundation, led by philanthropist Alex Cohen, has launched Phase 3 of the LymeX Diagnostics Prize through a fiscal sponsorship with the Digital Harbor Foundation. This phase invites six teams from Phase 2 to plan clinical performance studies for validating their prop... The post Six teams advance to Phase 3 of LymeX Diagnostics Prize appeared first on LymeDisease.org ..read more

Understanding the effects of Lyme disease on the developing fetal brain is essential to ensure timely prenatal and postnatal treatments to protect the fetus and newborn. In response to this need, Children’s National Hospital in Washington D.C. is leading a pilot study to establish the groundwork nee... The post First-of-its-kind study on how Lyme impacts pregnancy and infant development appeared first on LymeDisease.org ..read more

Last year, a six-year-old Arkansas boy had to be put into a medically induced coma–after a tick bite gave him ehrlichiosis. At that time, according to his mom, “He lost all motor skills, all function, he couldn’t speak.” He began to have daily seizures, some of which lasted for hours. No... The post Arkansas boy recovers from tick bite that sent him to ICU appeared first on LymeDisease.org ..read more

by Dr. Eric Gordon Every day, we work with patients with complex chronic illnesses. Each individual is a puzzle, with varying symptoms and overlapping medical concerns. We know how hard it is to have complex health issues and so much confusing information out there. To continue to support our patien... The post Two prominent West Coast Lyme clinics are merging appeared first on LymeDisease.org ..read more

From the Center for Lyme Action: The Fiscal Year 2024 Appropriations process has finally been completed. Congress has passed the second consolidated appropriations package and the President signed it into law on Saturday, March 23. The package includes funding for the Department of Health and Human ... The post Amidst federal budget cuts, Lyme funding increases appeared first on LymeDisease.org ..read more

By Patty Shillington, UMass Amherst Researchers at the New England Regional Center of Vector-Borne Diseases at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have come up with a new, more accurate method for detecting in ticks the emerging Powassan virus, which can cause life-threatening neuroinvasive dise... The post A better way to detect Powassan virus in ticks appeared first on LymeDisease.org ..read more

By Anne Trafton, MIT News Lyme disease, a bacterial infection transmitted by ticks, affects nearly half a million people in the United States every year. In most cases, antibiotics effectively clear the infection, but for some patients, symptoms linger for months or years. Researchers at MIT and the... The post A protein found in human sweat may protect against Lyme disease appeared first on LymeDisease.org ..read more