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Commentary: Tick borne diseases are spreading throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe. This is the unfortunate story of a French-Canadian woman from Quebec who saw many physicians without ever receiving a proper diagnosis and ...

Commentary: Cathy Rubin will be joining me in Oslo next week for the International Norvect conference on Lyme and associated tick-borne disorders. In this article in the Huffington Post, she interviews me and other speakers ...

Commentary: Dr Brian Fallon, Dr Rick Ostfeld of the Cary Institute, and Jill Auerbach, chairwoman of the Hudson Valley Lyme Disease Association presented information at a local forum in Poughkeepsie on the risks of Lyme ...

Commentary: This is the official release from Assemblywoman Didi Barrett on the legislation which passed the NYS Assembly to improve the care of Lyme disease patients. We are grateful for all of her hard work ...

Commentary: The Dutchess County Medical Society decided to cancel the Lyme conference scheduled for this Friday. Local and federal politicians, including Congressman Gibson's office, are looking into why the DCMS canceled such an important event. ...

Commentary: Lyme disease has been believed to be rare or non-existent in southern states. Dr Kerry Clark, from the University of North Florida, recently found that 42 percent of patients from southern states tested positive ...

Commentary: The NYS bill that authorizes long term antibiotics for certain patients with Lyme disease, and provides that physicians shall not be subject to disciplinary action for such treatment, passed the NYS Assembly yesterday, by ...

Commentary: It appears Lyme disease has made its way into Texas. Although believed to be a rare disease in the Lone Star State, Dr. Maria Esteve-Gassent, a research professor at Texas A and M University, ...

Commentary: New research from Yale confirms that Borrelia miyamotoi, the relapsing fever spirochete, has spread throughout New England. Four percent of the patients tested had evidence of this Lyme-like organism. B. miyamotoi does not test ...

Commentary: Patients suffering from Lyme and associated tick-borne diseases often have difficulty coping with their illness. Here is the story of how one Lyme sufferer finds inner piece when living with the challenges of Lyme ...