While traditional antibiotic approaches work well for many people with Lyme disease, up to 20% have symptoms that persist after treatment. But although chronic Lyme – also known as post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome (PLTDS) – can seem mysterious (even...
“The world is facing a crisis of antibiotic resistance,” writes Dr. Robert Rowen in a paper just published in the journal Medical Gas Research. Thousands of patients die yearly in the USA from infections that have failed to respond to anti-infectives. Alarms have been...
As if one Lyme-causing bacterium wasn’t tricky enough – what with its multiple forms stimulating an array of symptoms that easily mimic other conditions – it seems there’s another microbe capable of triggering the same disease. Meet Borrelia mayonii, named after the...
Once upon a time, Lyme disease was considered an east coast thing – and something you could only get from hiking in the woods (as if ticks – the bugs whose bite causes Lyme – never ventured elsewhere). Once upon a time, it was thought that a bulls-eye rash was the...
What does healing from Lyme disease look like? Here’s how it looked for entertainer Debbie Gibson this past spring in Chile: All of us here in the office were honored to be a part of her process and elated to see her amazing recovery from the struggle she describes...
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