If there has been one silver lining to the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s been the rise of rapid self-tests, which provide results at home in minutes. Researchers are hard at work at developing similar tests ...

Kimberly Dawn Neumann is a New York City-based magazine and book writer whose work has appeared in a wide variety of publications, including Women’s Health, Health, Cosmopolitan, Fitness, Prevention, ...

As the number of emergency room visits for tick bite related incidents reaches a five-year high, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, one company is working on a new test for ...

When Americans spend time in the great outdoors this summer, they don’t want to come back home with any uninvited guests. Lyme disease, the most common tick-borne disease in the United States, can ...

PORTOLA VALLEY, Calif., Oct. 09, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Bay Area Lyme Foundation, the leading nonprofit funder of Lyme disease research in the US, today announced results from two independent ...

As two medical societies battle over its diagnosis and treatment, Lyme disease remains a frequently missed illness. Here is how to spot and treat it. Controversy over the treatment of a particular ...

“If I took my dog on a 20-minute walk, I was in bed for the rest of the day,” she says. “Forget about going to the gym, despite the fact that I had been an athlete growing up.” Then there were the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Lyme disease can cause serious harm, but so can bogus tests and treatments. The complexity of diagnosing the tick-borne disease has given rise to an entire industry of unapproved ...

At the onset of an illness with a high fever, achiness all over, headache, joints and muscles aching, and feeling just like — well, you know — a patient was concerned whether this was the start of ...

Lyme disease can cause serious harm, but so can bogus tests and treatments. The complexity of diagnosing the tick-borne disease has given rise to an entire industry of unapproved tests and unproven ...