The Mayday Project Lyme patient advocacy group will host a forum on the scientific and policy challenges posed by the rapidly growing epidemic of Lyme disease and associated tick-borne illnesses. The forum...

After a decade of controversy, the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) guidelines for treatment of Lyme disease, first posted in 2006, have lapsed and been removed from the National Guideline...

The Jan. 31 airing of the Outbreak News This Week Radio show centered around the ever controversial and misunderstood tick borne illness, Lyme disease. During the first half of the show I talked to...

The Mayday Project Lyme patient advocacy group announced a response from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to the citizen petition, End Preferential Treatment of the IDSA Guidelines...

The Patient Centered Care Advocacy Group (PCC Group) says it has documented a deliberate misinformation campaign by Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) panelists who are tasked with updating...

A coalition of Lyme patient advocacy groups will hold rallies and a candlelight vigil on October 9 and 10 during the IDWeek medical conference in San Diego. IDWeek is organized by the Infectious Diseases...

The contentiousness of the infectious bacterial disease/syndrome, Lyme disease, unlike other infectious diseases,  has been a source of conflict between the “establishment” medical community...

The Infectious Diseases Society of America plans on revising its guidelines for the treatment of Lyme disease. On March 9, IDSA released a project plan to update the guidelines. The plan provides a period...

Today’s Outbreak News This Week Radio Show started with a brief introduction to a new, free 6-week online course on Vaccines being offered by the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of...

The Mayday Project Lyme patient advocacy group announced that it is moving forward with plans for a two-day protest at the headquarters of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA). U.S. rates...