MaineHealth is participating in a research trial that is testing the effectiveness of a potential new Lyme vaccine that could prevent thousands of cases of the disease per year in ... could see a more ...

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

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

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

New research suggests that as many as ... are diagnosed and treated by GPs without any need for a blood test and so don’t ...

Three months later, her blood test done by a local lab revealed she had Lyme disease, and subsequent testing by the CDC, the gold standard, confirmed it. Lyme disease is caused by blacklegged ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

researchers are exploring new (and old) options, and a few are now being tested in human clinical trials. Between 1999 and 2002, there actually was a human vaccine for Lyme disease available in ...