While I was digging around for information about Lyme disease for the Doc Gumshoe epistle a few weeks ago, I kept coming across stuff about other tick-borne diseases, some of which was concerning, to say the least. I knew something about some of them, but one tick-borne illness was totally new to me, and, I […]
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Thank you Travis, I have Lyme disease. Really appreciate the valuable information. Thanks for your great work. Bill ...
My wife had Lyme disease a few years ago although where she picked up the tick is a matter of conjecture. She had the cl...
There is a body of thought that a big portion--perhaps a majority--of people diagnosed with M.S. actually have undiagnos...
Great article - thanks. I have a friend who went undiagnosed for 5 years with all types of symptoms until finally they ...
I have a close relative who used to spend summers in upstate NY up until a few years ago. She was treated for both confi...
VLA15 – Valneva’s Lyme disease vaccine candidateVLA15 is the only Lyme disease vaccine candidate currently in ad...
Hi "Doc," thanks for the excellent article. I appreciate your inviting us to avoid the debate about present immunizatio...
I MADE A FEW ERRORS!OPPS in 2013 Dr Miklossy published a study calling Alzheimer’s a neurospirochetosis. Open Access ...
in 2013 Dr Miklossy published a study calling Alzheimer's a neurospirochetosis. Open Access Alzheimer’s disease - a n...
Another point about the CDC is there record on Lyme disease. I live in the Northeast where Lyme disease is rampant. Bec...
This discussion of various drugs and their failure to make a significant difference in the progression, halting, or rev...
"Lyme disease" is not just ONE disease. Will the vaccine protect against any of the others?...
See research at Paul H. Duray Pathology Research Fellowship that show borrelia burgdorferi aka Lyme disease spirochetes ...
I've had Lyme disease several times in the past 10 years - every year in fact (we've got deer and all kinds of wildlife ...
Ok, now I am talking as a mom and a nurse - if it were my kid - I'd actually be elbowing my way to seeing a neurosurgeon...
Leslie7 - I agree, plus complications thereof. A friend of mine, who is over 65, found out a couple months ago he had L...
I apologize for being remiss in answering in a timely fashion. I'm allegedly retired, which I've come to learn is more ...
It sounds like Lyme disease!!!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdjWIiTeE9Mhttps://www.webmd.com/rheumatoid-arthri...
It sounds like Lyme disease!!!...
Jking/Sharon - I have read that ticks carrying Lyme disease. It's dreadful....
lumpified Let me make clear that I am completely unqualified and uncredentialed to give a medical opinion and am vastl...
$OPGN np $TTOO long - seems to me that OPGN's $2 billion market estimates are conflated by the aggregation of micro mar...
Hi Sam: Let's address those two separately. One is an infectious process, the other autoimmune.Let's not let mentio...
$AUPH, Dr KSS, Could Voclosporin be used for Lyme disease or even some forms of Arthritis? very long AUPH and Dr KSS...
Casey Research has promo for another company with a "breakthrough" Alzheimer's drug that he calls Sig-1 that in a Phase ...
Every day , I have someone in my office who has talked to the girl in the health food store or the naturopath who has co...
TTOO with journal study published using its technology for lyme disease detection. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/study...
Plans are afoot to wipe out Lyme disease using gene editing. http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/01/02/rewriting-the-...
This short story on Lyme disease is interesting, and not a little distressing. My family--including two woods-exploring ...
Truly commendable discussion! I have been through the hypochondriac get-psychiatric treatment regime with many doctors,...
Arghhh.....after perusing the symptoms I see I have Lyme disease! Just kidding, of course. Thoroughly enjoyed your art...
Sometime in the in 90s we move to farmland in SE PA. If I recall our dogs had issues with ticks and my MD suggested a L...
Lyme disease seems to be the perfect thing for health-conscious people who tend toward hypochondria. Been for a walk in ...
Most of the problem is in the polyglot language that English, especially US English is. We have many synonyms that mean...
john this brings another thought. As you probably know Lyme disease is spread by ticks and they are small and like to co...
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TTOO's website sez this about Lyme disease: " The T2Lyme Panel, which is being developed through a partnership between T...
Great news about T2 Biosystems collaborating with Allergen. thanks Ben!Here are the main points from their announce...
Regarding Lyme disease. Why isn't the standard protocol the one used by (a youtube description) Dr. Rowen? It involves...
$TTOO -T2 Biosystems announces five poster presentations at IDWeek 2016 - Annual Meeting of Infectious Diseases Soc...
Above and Beyond Antibiotics Antibiotics are not enough to treat Lyme disease according to a new study in mice by Co...
$TTOO - T2 Biosystems Presents Data on the Company's T2MR® Technology for the Detection of the Bacteria that Causes Lym...
Let me guess... you also probably believe that Fluoride is good for you (even though most our supply comes from CHINA w...
I'm a fairly new investor in biotech stocks and must say following along with all of you who contribute to this thread h...
Back in 2011, a moderately famous author and social commentator named James Howard Kunstler began suffering from dispara...
From Fierce fro those interested in Lyme disease: http://www.fiercebiotechresearch.com/story/northeastern-team-solves...
Dr Kss, have been tracking this company for awhile T2 Biosystems (TTOO) and it might be time to look at them at a buy.Th...
Glenn- saw this news on TTOO today- was wondering if you ever got any more research done on this co. or what your though...
Glenn - I noticed that too. Most recent FDA news. Erectile Dysfunction? Isn't this area pretty much covered? I don't kn...
No question that diabetes and depression (with associated fatigue?) would be good topics for review.Lyme disease is ...
Dr. KSS: What an informative, educational, and compassionately related article. Thank you for being such an anchor to th...
Leo S: the whole tickborne illnesses field is very serious stuff. Not only Lyme and RMSF, but also Ehrlichiosis and STAR...
Dr.Karma; At the risk of impinging on your prolific and erudite discussions: You mentioned in the response to Sean Conn...
Re seeking Lyme-disease therapy (and many other choices in life), it's important to consider the effect of being wrong:...
If you live in an area where tick transmitting Lyme disease is found and if you have a rash that looks like the Logo for...
You mean the patients? I was mainly referring to the unethical docs' cynicism. I can't believe that most of them are no...
Travis:) I can only tell you my experience with the bathing method. I live in a semi-rural area where Lyme disease i...
Starting with the original subject, I am thankful to Doc Gumshoe for relating the research on Lyme disease, and to the m...
It's Lyme Disease, named after Old Lyme Connecticut. Not Lyme's disease....
I wanted to add a couple of comments regarding your terrific exposition of this more and more widespread problem.Fir...
I read this with interest last week which is strange for me because I hate reading this kind of stuff. I grew up on a fa...
I live in Sequim, WA, on five acres, and deer do pass through and spend the nite in our grassy meadows. I noticed a 1/4...
We have plenty of Lyme disease and many other tick-borne diseases here in California. Most counties are officially ende...
Lyme disease IS an organic brain disease. Did you mean "another organic brain disease"? Also, You can buy a permethri...
Living in a rural area of the Catskill mtns where I raise fruit and nut trees (over 300) I have been exposed to Lyme dis...
The many excellent & intelligent comments underscore, more than anything else, the considerable difficulty of arrivi...
Great article and surrounding discussion. From someone who understands the frustrations that surround diagnosis of Ly...
Terrific article and lively discussion. Lyme disease is something we all need to understand. A couple of points are w...
Here is comment from my sister who has been a horrific battle with not only years of chronic Lyme but doctors in denial;...
As someone who has been down the Lyme Disease rabbit hole, I would suggest that after awhile, it becomes difficult to de...
Couldn't help but noticed you used the names of the sister singing act, The Andrews Sisters. Any reason for that? Boog...
I suggest that you review the CDC webpage regarding the criteria that you referenced. 5 IgG bands or 2 IgM bands are cr...
I there are deer arond, suspect lyme disease. CJC MD...
Lyme disease causes a multitude of symptoms and signs imitates many other diseases; some the lab test are positive and s...
For a non-informed person like me, this article was fascinating. My wife often deals with symptoms that have no single d...
Lyme disease is encountered in Western Europe as well; I know of a few cases in Germany as early as the 1990s and many m...
Where I live Lyme Disease is quite common and doctors are familiar with it. But from what you have posted, even if you ...
THANK YOU for publishing this important information in your newsletter. So many people are still ignorant of the effect...
Perhaps an interesting point to make for those of you who spend a lot of time flying in airliners (either as crew or pas...
I am a specialist MD physician and I could not have explained it better. Importantly is the fact that with climate chan...