Lyme disease has been a scourge in parts of the U.S. for decades but doctors are still using diagnostic tests developed in the 1990’s. Researchers now assert, though, that a definitive diagnostic test is technically feasible. Plus, powered by Congressional...
Why some people with Lyme disease fail to recover after antibiotic treatment is a question that touches not only on them but on other commonly post-infectious illnesses like ME/CFS, FM and POTS. Further work is needed but an answer could be at hand. Not only did a...
A series of recent articles have laid bare the Lyme disease problem in the U.S with startling clarity. Given the disease’s remarkable spread in forty years (it was identified in Connecticut in the 1970’s), many people with mysterious fatigue and pain...
People who’ve been treated for Lyme disease and remain ill present a dilemma. Do they still have Lyme disease or did having Lyme disease for a time cause permanent damage or do they have something else? During the Simmaron Research Foundation’s Patient...
People who have chronic Lyme disease are a mystery in the same way that people with ME/CFS who come down with an infection and never recover are. A recent study that asked why chronic Lyme patients don’t recover could have implications for ME/CFS. It also asked...
There has been a growing consensus that whatever chronic Lyme disease is it’s not due to the bacteria. This concensus has been based on studies indicating that short term antibiotic treatment following an infection, causes a dramatic reduction in antibodies....