Kirsten Stein panicked when she couldn't find her son. She forgot she had just dropped him off at school. Her new symptoms ...

George Mason University researchers have received a $1,176,645 grant in federal funding from the U.S. Department of the Army to revolutionize Lyme disease detection and diagnosis with urine ...

The new regulation was met with pushback from the testing industry, which has long resisted additional government scrutiny.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — the federal agency that monitors diseases and establishes guidelines to ...

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Long Island is one of the epicenters for Lyme disease. Education and prevention are keys to avoiding tick bites and ...

Most typically, the rash expands and then fades within a few weeks after the bite. There is a blood test for Lyme Disease, but it is not perfect. The test generally produces positive results in the ...

such as Lyme disease, which early data this year suggest could cause historically high levels of suffering. Tick season 2024: ...

Philadelphia 76ers center Joel Embiid says he's been diagnosed with Bell's palsy, a medical condition that causes facial ...

While the parasitic infection is primarily spread through insect vectors, it can also be transmitted congenitally and is often asymptomatic in newborns.

Nationally, the data tracked by the EPA shows that Lyme disease cases nearly doubled between 1991 and 2018. And New England states have seen the largest increases in cases. Deer ticks have a two ...

Now, a positive laboratory test is sufficient ... “We have a lot of behind-the-scenes data management that’s new with this Lyme disease surveillance system,” said Rebecca Osborn, a vector ...