Treating patients with chronic Lyme disease with a long-term antibiotic proved no more successful in eliminating symptoms than a placebo, according to a new randomized trial published in The New ...

As many as 476,000 people in the U.S. contract Lyme disease each year, according to the CDC. For most people, symptoms go away after two to four weeks of antibiotics, but five to 10 percent of ...

A new vaccine to prevent Lyme disease just entered late-stage clinical trials, a major step forward in controlling the tick-borne illness. "This is going to be a very significant breakthrough once the ...

Between 2012 and 2014, Tracy Jakich Davis’ 14-year-old son, Jaden, developed a host of mysterious symptoms that more than a half dozen doctors near Phoenix, Arizona could not piece together to form a ...

(Reuters Health) - Twelve weeks of antibiotic therapy proved ineffective at combating the long-term symptoms seen in some people who have had Lyme disease, a new test of 280 sufferers found. The new ...

Sue Gray, 59, has been sick half her life. But it took two decades to confirm why. When Gray was 30 and living with her then-husband in the middle of the woods in upstate New York, she felt a tick on ...

Lyme disease patients who suffer chronic symptoms look to long-term antibiotics for help, but often they lose support of insurers who are only willing to pay for the short term. Others face challenges ...

BOSTON - Donna Castle fought for years to get private insurers to pay for long-term treatment of her daughter's Lyme disease, a tick-borne illness that left her disabled. Her daughter, Amanda, was ...