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  • More about Tick-Borne Illnesses

    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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  • Another Look at Lyme Disease

    Ready for a summer stroll in the woods?

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  • Late Summer Pickings: September 2018

    Doc Gumshoe on Coffee vs. Energy Drinks, Opioid Tapering, Smallpox, Vaccinations, Lyme Disease, HIV and more...

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  • Hypochondria: A Real Problem, or a Way of Trivializing Our Genuine Concerns?

    [ed. note: Michael Jorrin, who I like to call Doc Gumshoe, is a longtime medical writer (not a doctor) who writes about non-financial health and medical issues for us a couple times a month (past submissions can be found on his author page here). Like all of our authors, he chooses his own topics and […]

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  • written by reader Lyme Disease and Other Tick-borne Illnesses: A Conundrum

    Doc Gumshoe looks at the blood-suckers

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  • Comments

  • 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...

  • $TTOO (long) – Q3 Conference Call – Q&A – 01Nov2016 (abridged - much):Key priorities for marketing/sales: 1)...

  • 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...

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