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On May 10, at its first major fundraiser held at the River Oaks Country Club in Houston, the Texas Lyme Disease Association honored Dr. Daniel Cameron and Dr. Charles Ray Jones for their compassionate care of Texas patients and pioneering work in Lyme disease. Find out more about Texas Lyme Disease Association.
Joyce Cate had finished playing tennis one day in early May of 2010 when she realized she was far more fatigued than normal. By the time she returned home to Westmoreland after a grocery shopping trip, she was more worn out. “I felt like a dish rag,” she said. Within the next couple of days, [...]
Doctors diagnosed Lori Brownell with Tourette’s Syndrome, conversion disorder, anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder — but she didn’t believe any of them. Especially the doctors who told her it was in her head. The diagnosis she received on Tuesday, however, feels right: Lyme disease. “I’m happy because I can finally start getting treated,” said the 17-year-old. [...]
Visitors to the Dietrich Theater Saturday morning got a healthy dose of reality regarding Lyme disease and why it is often miss-diagnosed or discounted. For 90 minutes, the standing room crowd of more than 200 watched the movie, “Under Our Skin.” When it was over, Dr. Daniel Cameron, an epidemiologist from Westchester County, N.Y., complimented [...]
Lyme disease (LD) is a complex, multisystemic illness. As the most common vector-borne disease in the United States, LD is caused by bacterial spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto, with potential coinfections from agents of anaplasmosis, babesiosis, and ehrlichiosis. Persistent symptoms and clinical signs reflect multiorgan involvement with episodes of active disease and periods of remission, [...]
Bethesda, MD – Members of the International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society (ILADS) highlight a newly published article entitled Perspectives on Chronic Lyme Disease, as yet another example of the need for more dialogue between physicians, researchers and other health professionals regarding the existence and diagnosis of chronic Lyme disease. The American Journal of Medicine [...]
August 5, 2007 Around 30 patients and family members gathered for the fourth annual Lyme Disease Symposium. The high-profile keynote speakers included Pat Smith, president of the Lyme Disease Association; Dr. Brian Fallon, the director of the Lyme and Tick-borne Diseases Research Center at Columbia University Medical Center, and Dr. Daniel J. Cameron, an internist, [...]
Chronic Lyme cases take time Physician urges more treatment for patients with stubborn symptoms By CATHLEEN F. CROWLEY, Staff writer First published in print: Thursday, June 3, 2010 Jim Grady felt like he had a bad cold that never went away: a stiff neck, joint pain and head ache that progressed to blurry vision, fatigue [...]
HISTORIC HEARINGS ON MOST CONTROVERSIAL DISEASE IN U.S. LYME DISEASE: SPOTLIGHT ON A HIDDEN EPIDEMIC Lyme Patients Gather in D.C. and Around the World to Push for Better Treatment and Recognition of Chronic Disease Story Summary: What happens if tick-borne illness is missed, or left untreated? Millions of patients say they suffer from chronic (or [...]
From Leslie and Tracy’s website at Lymefighters.org THANK YOU MY WONDERFUL, BEAUTIFUL SISTER, FOR BLESSING ME WITH 41 YEARS OF YOUR LIFE. YOU’VE SUFFERED WITH LYME AND TICK-BORNE ILLNESS FOR SO LONG. PLEASE WATCH OVER ME AND GIVE ME STRENGTH, AS I FIGHT THIS BATTLE "IN MEMORY OF YOU". LESLIE RAE WERMERS DOB: 07-07-1967 PASSED AWAY [...]
