Kirsten Stein panicked when she couldn't find her son. She forgot she had just dropped him off at school. Her new symptoms ...
Lyme disease is transmitted to humans by the deer tick ... MaineHealth is also participating in research that could see a more accurate blood test that could detect the presence of the Lyme bacteria, ...
SPRING brings warnings about various health threats, including tick bites. While in most cases they are harmless, around one ...
May is Lyme Disease Awareness Month, as disease-carrying ticks become more active over the next few weeks. The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention on Monday reported 316 cases of Lyme ...
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 ...
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 ...
Diagnosing patients with neurologic Lyme disease can take upwards of 2 years, which Maria Arini Lopez discovered first-hand ...
‘Current data is based on laboratory testing figures but many cases are diagnosed and treated by GPs without any need for a ...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — the federal agency that monitors diseases and establishes guidelines to ...
Long Island is one of the epicenters for Lyme disease. Education and prevention are keys to avoiding tick bites and ...
As Lyme disease cases rise in the U.S., humans are not the only ones at risk. Veterinarians with the Virginia-Maryland ...
An eight-legged arachnid the size of a poppy seed can cause major problems for your pets including damage to kidneys and the ...