The U.S. Senate has passed legislation to fight Lyme Disease. Now the bill heads to the White House for President Barack Obama’s signature. If signed into law, coordination efforts between medical companies and doctors will recognize and address tick-borne illnesses within patients.
“This is an important advancement to help combat the growing epidemic of Lyme disease,” said […]
Bethesda Magazine profiles a Maryland physician who has his medical license on the line to help Lyme patients.
From Bethesda Magazine, November-December 2016
By David Frey
When Melissa Brinsfield wakes up, she never knows if it’s going to be a good day or a bad one. Will she be able to handle the press of people on the […]
Massachusetts is ranked second in the nation for confirmed Lyme disease cases. Misdiagnosis and mistreatment is common among patients to which they suffer long-term effects of the disease. With new legislation, this won’t be a problem anymore. By allowing patients access to proper care while paying next to nothing, they are able to rejoin society […]
Lyme disease, do you have it? If you did, you probably wouldn’t know – unless you’re one of the chronic sufferers that have had to visit over 30 doctors to get a proper diagnosis. Lyme disease tests are highly inaccurate, often inconclusive or indicating false negatives.
Why? Because this clever bacteria has found a way to dumb down the immune system and white […]
“Tara Geraghty observed a contemporary phenomenon while she watched her husband’s health decline and doctors reject even looking into the possibility of her husband having Lyme and not ALS: “There’s something about Lyme disease that no one wants to talk about it,” she told The Valley Breeze.
Indeed, there seems to be an inexplicable culture of […]
Family still holding out hope for a cure
By ETHAN SHOREY, Breeze Online News Editor
CUMBERLAND – A year ago, the Geraghty family was preparing for the holidays just like they always did, unaware of the deep, life-altering trouble to come.
On Dec. 2, 2013, David Geraghty began feeling discomfort in his diaphragm. By the first week of January, […]
Winnipegger Megan Duczminski will never forget the moment when, lying in a hospital bed and waiting for treatment, she overheard residents outside her door talking about her case.
They were laughing.
“They were saying ‘Oh, she thinks she has this symptom, too? And she thinks she has that symptom, seriously?'” she said. “They were ridiculing me.”
Duczminski, 29, said […]
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Tick larvae encased in a 15- to 20-million-year-old piece of amber contains oldest known ancestor of Borrelia burgdorferi.
Veterinary professionals are no strangers to the stealthy spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi—but the discovery of spirochete-like cells in a 15-million-year-old amber-encased tick reveals that the bacteria have been lurking around long before humans walked the Earth.
The discovery was […]
My life changed abruptly in April of 2010: blurred vision that I had had on and off since my 20s became double vision; occasional hearing fluctuations in my left ear that I had had on and off since my 20s became total deafness, or sound drowned out by maddening tinnitus. I had extreme panic attacks […]
If you’ve been diagnosed with fibromyalgia, you know better than anyone the pain, frustration and anxiety associated with this difficult to define disease. Ask anyone what the worst part about fibromyalgia (FMS) is and they might list the numbness, pain, difficulty sleeping, irritable bowel syndrome and the persistent depression – or they might say the […]
