For decades, scientists have searched for a way to outsmart Lyme disease, a stealthy infection that affects nearly half a ...

Penn State Health Children’s Hospital are seeing seasonal allergies this week. They’re also seeing rashes from outdoor ...

New research suggests that lingering cell wall fragments from the Lyme disease bacterium, Borrelia burgdorferi, may be responsible for persistent symptoms long after antibiotic treatment.

Last week, STAT’s Anil Oza reported that the Trump administration had targeted a scientific journal for its editorial ...

A new study on Lyme disease sheds light on the persistence of symptoms; another new study points to an antibiotic that may be ...

Lyme disease, a disease transmitted when deer ticks feed on infected animals like deer and rodents, and then bite humans, impacts nearly half a million individuals in the U.S. annually.

Piperacillin, an antibiotic in the same class as penicillin, effectively cured mice of Lyme disease at 100-times less than the effective dose of doxycycline, the current gold standard treatment. At ...

Scientists believe they know what causes the treated infection to mimic chronic illness: the body may be responding to remnants of the bacteria that causes Lyme that tend to pool in the liver and ...

Symptoms that persist long after Lyme disease is treated are not uncommon - a 2022 study found that 14% of patients who were diagnosed and treated early with antibiotic therapy would still develop ...

In a residential backyard in Maine, Project ITCH researchers from the University of Massachusetts Amherst stumbled upon a ...

Mosquitoes that transmit La Crosse virus disease live in wooded areas in the U.S., mainly in the Upper Midwest, Mid-Atlantic ...

A Kings County man is facing 13 weapons charges so far and more may be coming as RCMP continue to search a property in Newtonville. The Nova Scotia government predicts the newly opened Neptune ...