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Chronic Illness Support: The Dos & Don’ts
How can I support someone living with Lyme disease? Whether you’re a friend, a family member, or significant other of someone with a chronic illness, you may have asked yourself this exact question. Offering chronic illness support can be a difficult task because not only does it require a lot of effort, it is quite […]
Senator Susan Collins: It is time to unite against ticks
Lyme disease and other tick-borne diseases are skyrocketing across the country and here in Maine, and they are spreading farther north in our state. On Sept. 5, I convened an official Senate hearing at the University of Maine Cooperative Extension Diagnostic and Research Laboratory Tick Lab in Orono to spotlight both the devastating consequences of […]
New Test Diagnoses Lyme Disease Within 15 Minutes
Some 300,000 people in the U.S. are diagnosed with Lyme disease every year. Caused by Borrelia burgdorferi and transmitted by the bite of infected Ixodes ticks, the disease if left untreated can cause serious neurologic, cardiac, and/or rheumatologic complications. Current testing for Lyme disease, called the standard 2-tiered approach or the STT, involves running […]