Lyme Disease News

• Tick-Borne Pathogens Becoming More Widespread in Canada More comprehensive testing is needed to monitor risks of emerging diseases, according to researchers.
  Medscape Medical News, November 30, 2022
• Brain Imaging Validates Cognitive Problems After Lyme Disease Many patients who have had Lyme disease struggle with cognitive challenges, even after treatment. This new imaging study shows changes in white matter that might explain these symptoms.
  Medscape Medical News, November 08, 2022
• Vermont Public Health Rolling Out Support Tool for Clinicians All physicians, NPs, and PAs, can access a database of pictures and diagnostic support for little-seen cases. The state is hoping it can stay ahead of the next pandemic and be a model for the nation.
  Medscape Medical News, November 07, 2022
• An Untreated Tick Bite Made Her the 'Bionic Woman' 'It [the disease] was deteriorating every joint in my body,' Meghan Bradshaw, now 29, says. 'I was a shell of myself. It was terrifying.'
  WebMD Health News, October 10, 2022
• Our Wearable Future, Part 1: What Will New Tech Look Like? Prepare for a future where you and your patient track health markers 24/7, manage chronic conditions in real time, and predict incoming illness with precision from sensors worn on the skin and in clothing.
  WebMD Health News, August 24, 2022
• Climate Change Puts Lyme Disease in Focus for France's Valneva After COVID Blow With climate change spurring more cases of tick-borne Lyme disease, drugmaker Valneva is betting big on a vaccine as it looks beyond disappointing sales of its COVID shot.
  Reuters Health Information, August 08, 2022
• Pfizer Begins Trial for Lyme Disease Vaccine If the trial succeeds, the vaccine could be the first human vaccine for the tick-borne illness in the US in two decades.
  WebMD Health News, August 09, 2022
• Increasing Data Link ME/CFS, Long COVID, and Dysautonomia Speakers at a recent scientific ME/CFS conference reported new data linking the three conditions. New ICD-10 codes will help clinicians document them.
  Medscape Medical News, August 05, 2022
• Insurance Data Shows Big Rise in Lyme Disease in US The trends show that tick-borne illnesses are becoming a more common concern nationally, not just in the areas where Lyme disease has been found historically.
  WebMD Health News, August 03, 2022
• Why Exercise Doesn't Help People With Long COVID “It felt like someone pulled the carpet out from under me,” he remembers. “I couldn’t walk three blocks without getting breathless and fatigued.”
  WebMD Health News, August 03, 2022
• What Are the Signs of Post-Acute Infection Syndromes? Establishing a better understanding of post-acute infection symptoms is a necessary step toward developing an evidenced-based, multidisciplinary management approach.
  Medscape Medical News, June 17, 2022
• It's Hot Outside -- and That's Bad News for Children's Health An article in the NEJM takes a sweeping look at how heat -- which can be a byproduct of air pollution and climate change -- adversely affects people's health, especially that of kids.
  Kaiser Health News, June 17, 2022
• Lyme Disease May Cost US Nearly $970 Million per Year Patients with localized disease had the lowest attributed costs, highlighting the importance of early diagnosis and intervention.
  Medscape Medical News, May 11, 2022
• New Lyme Disease Test Brings Faster Diagnosis, Can Detect Recurrence A test that detects antiphospholipid antibodies in the blood of Lyme disease patients shows potential for identifying the disease sooner than current methods and possibly tracking response to therapy and recurrence, researchers say.
  Reuters Health Information, April 01, 2022
• Tick-Borne Heartland Virus Circulating in US, Researchers Say Symptoms can be a high fever, fatigue, diarrhea, muscle pain, and low counts of white blood cells and platelets. It can take up to 2 weeks for symptoms to appear after a bite from an infected tick.
  WebMD Health News, March 24, 2022
• Targeting Ticks and Lyme Disease With Gene Editing Ticks have evaded gene editing attempts for years, but scientists have finally figured out how to effectively modify their genome as they work to reduce disease transmission.
  WebMD Health News, February 24, 2022
• Scientists See Hope in New Therapy for COVID Brain Fog Patients People with long-COVID 'brain fog' may be able to recover mental abilities that were dulled or stolen from them by the virus.
  WebMD Health News, February 10, 2022
• Lyme and Other Tick-Borne Diseases Are on the Rise. But Why? The complex interplay of ticks, their habitats and hosts — along with changes in land use and climate — may be enabling the spread of the pathogens they carry.
  Knowable Magazine, February 04, 2022
• Not Much New in New Clinical Guidelines for Tick-Borne Illness The guidelines focus on resource-limited settings.
  Medscape Medical News, January 13, 2022
• Judge Dismisses Lyme Disease Lawsuit Against IDSA, Doctors The Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) could have chosen to settle the lawsuit instead of fighting it, but the principles at stake were too high, they decided.
  Medscape Medical News, October 25, 2021