Lyme Disease

Fighting Back Against Lyme Disease

Leo Galland, M.D. | Posted 04.27.2012

Leo Galland, M.D.

Antibiotics are the standard therapy for Lyme disease. Like other drugs, the way they are taken can strongly influence the outcome of treatment.

Inform The World About Lyme Disease

Beth Ross | Posted 05.03.2012

Beth Ross

I want to start a Lyme Disease Foundation and get the word out about what Chronic Lyme Disease is and what patients with Chronic Lyme Disease go through on a daily basis.

8 Celebrities Touched By Lyme Disease

Posted 04.23.2012

Not only has this year's unseasonably warm winter left us with worse allergies and predictions of a buggier spring, experts warn it also may be settin...

Lyme Disease: Is The Perfect Storm Heading Our Way?

Leo Galland, M.D. | Posted 04.18.2012

Leo Galland, M.D.

Two conditions are creating what may become the perfect storm for transmission of Lyme disease this spring.

Lynne Peeples

Disease-Carrying Ticks, 'Kissing Bugs' Soar As Climate Changes

HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 04.05.2012

Part of a series investigating the complex links between human, animal and environmental health: The Infection Loop. Darren Collins doesn't know li...

Iceman Suffered From Modern Maladies, DNA Analysis Reveals

Posted 02.29.2012

By: Wynne Parry, LiveScience Senior Writer Published: 02/28/2012 12:40 PM EST on LiveScience The 5,300-year-old ice mummy dubbed Ötzi, discover...

Lyme Disease Map Shows Where Disease Poses Biggest Threat

AP/The Huffington Post | By HOLLY RAMER | Posted 02.07.2012

CONCORD, N.H. -- Researchers who spent three years dragging sheets of fabric through the woods to snag ticks have created a detailed map they claim co...

GOP Congressman Hospitalized

AP | Posted 10.25.2011

COLUMBIA, S.C. -- U.S. Rep. Joe Wilson of South Carolina has gone to the hospital because of an extended fever. Wilson's office said in a short state...

Lynne Peeples

Upward-Tick In Tick Infections: Discovery Of New Disease Highlights Another Risk Of Environmental Change

HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 10.04.2011

If the rising risks of Lyme disease, Anaplasmosis or Babesiosis weren't reasons enough to take extra precautions while outdoors this summer -- and to ...

Summertime Hazard: How To Know If You Have Lyme Disease

Leo Galland, M.D. | Posted 08.17.2011

Leo Galland, M.D.

The only known transporter of Lyme bacteria -- the deer tick -- goes through the most infectious stage of its life cycle in the summer.

Will Kids Get Lyme Disease If Schools Don't Spray?

Mother Jones | — Kiera Butler | Posted 07.23.2011

As of last week, student athletes in New York will no longer have to worry about getting a mouthful of toxic chemicals when they dive for the ball: Th...

Medical Documentarians: Putting A Human Face on the Search for a Cure

George Heymont | Posted 05.28.2011

George Heymont

Back in the early 1980s, when AIDS was making its first cruel advances through the population, many of us felt an overwhelming sense of hopelessness a...

Lyme/Autism Group Blasts Genetically Modified Foods as Dangerous

Jeffrey Smith | Posted 11.17.2011

Jeffrey Smith

Stop eating dangerous genetically modified foods! That's the upshot of the Lyme Induced Autism (LIA) Foundation's position paper released today.

World's Infectious Disease Outbreaks (PHOTOS)

Posted 05.25.2011

Infecting over 3,000 people and killing at least 250, a cholera outbreak is currently sweeping across Haiti, bringing a new wave of tragedy to a natio...

California Lyme Disease Fraud: Robert Bradford Admits Scheme

Posted 05.25.2011

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) -- A southern California man has pleaded guilty in Kansas to marketing a phony system to diagnose and cure Lyme disease. The U...

Labor Day Lookouts: Beware of Nature-Loving Ticks

Connie Bennett | Posted 11.17.2011

Connie Bennett

Be careful as you venture out into nature this Labor Day Weekend. Watch out for nature-loving, disease-carrying ticks which can transmit Lyme disease.

Lyme: Emerging Disease or Hidden Epidemic?

Michealene Cristini Risley | Posted 11.17.2011

Michealene Cristini Risley

Many people who have Lyme disease have sounded the alarm, yet the medical establishment is not listening. Why are there so many disbelievers in Western medicine?

Ticking Time Bomb (Literally): Man who Murdered Pastor Was Profiled by Paper Last Summer as Lyme Disease Victim

Greg Mitchell | Posted 05.25.2011

Greg Mitchell

The news that Terry Joe Sedlacek suffered from Lyme disease has kicked off speculation about severe Lyme leading to insane violence.

The Friend I Never Met

Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 11.17.2011

Dr. Irene S. Levine

I feel very proud to be part of a writing community that has circled around a woman that many have only met once or twice, or like myself, only know virtually.