While avoiding contact with ticks is the only way to prevent contracting a tick-borne disease it is not a reason to avoid outdoor activities. Taking steps to protect yourself from being attractive to ticks is one of the first lines of defense. Wear light colored long pants, tucked into socks when outside. This makes seeing [...]
Lyme disease is the most reported vector-borne illness (diseases transmitted through mosquitoes, tick and flea bites) in the United States. The CDC estimates that there are nearly 300,000 new cases every year – that’s an average of approximately 800 infections per day. People who are diagnosed early and receive proper treatment consisting of 28-30 day [...]
Scientists' prediction that 2017 will be a bad year for Lyme Disease and other tick-borne illnesses shouldn't prevent you from enjoying the outdoors, but it does mean you should be aware of how to best protect yourself and what to do if you think you may have been bitten by a tick. Lyme Disease and [...]
Dr. Gary Kaplan will attend ILADS' 17th Annual Scientific Session: Lyme Disease: An Evolving Paradigm for Chronic Illness. This Annual Session is designed to foster collaboration and dialogue between Lyme disease researchers and those who care and advocate for Lyme disease patients in a variety of settings. The conference will provide updates in clinical knowledge [...]
Despite all that we've learned in recent years, a large number of Lyme disease cases continue to go undiagnosed and untreated, for a variety of reasons. And even when correctly diagnosed and treated, many people fail to fully recover. Recently, Dr. Neil Spector, a cancer researcher and clinical oncologist at Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center, gave [...]
If you’re one of the many Americans seeking relief from depression or anxiety, you’re no doubt aware just how elusive successful treatment can be. In fact, studies find that as many as 40% of people with depression fail to respond to treatment, while just over half report even a partial response to therapy. These dismal [...]
The best medicine is prevention so when recreating outdoors, take a moment to engage in a few simple steps to protect yourself, and even your pet, from Lyme disease carrying ticks and other tick-borne illnesses. Cover your body in light colored clothing. Use an insect repellant. Don’t forget the hard-to-see areas of the body such [...]
Scientists agree that Lyme disease appears in at least two forms in the human body – as a spirochete (a flexible spirally twisted bacterium ) and in “oval” form – and these two forms are sensitive to different antibiotics and to different lengths of treatment. There is also some debate about whether Lyme exists in [...]
If you’re one of the 51 million Americans seeking relief each year for depression and anxiety disorders, you know how elusive successful treatment can be. Studies show that 40% of people with depression fail to respond to any treatment, and over half of those who pursue therapy experience only a partial response. Could it be [...]
No bigger than a quarter inch and as small as a poppy seed, the deer tick that transmits Lyme Disease has created big medical problems for many people and a large controversy within the medical community over the best ways to test for and treat the disease. According to Dr. Gary Kaplan, of the Kaplan [...]
