Lyme disease is a bacterial infection that is spread by infected blacklegged ticks, these ticks are the most common ticks ...

In a nutshell The antibiotic piperacillin has shown remarkable effectiveness against Lyme disease-causing bacteria, Borrelia ...

May marks Lyme Disease Awareness Month, a time to learn how to protect yourself and your loved ones from tick bites. Lyme disease is a bacterial infection spread through the bite of infected ...

Researchers uncover why the body may keep reacting to a hidden threat even long after the bacteria are gone. As many as 20 ...

May is Lyme Disease Awareness Month. As the temperatures rise and people spend more time outdoors, tick bites become more ...

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

Climate change and growing deer populations have helped Lyme disease proliferate in New England. But there are several ways ...

Mice overcame a Lyme disease infection after being given an antibiotic that is often used for pneumonia, and its effect on ...

In today’s Health Alert, tick season is back and so is the threat of Lyme disease. But, there is good news on the medical ...

Apr. 23, 2025 — 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 ...

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.

April 23, 2025 – Tick season is back, and so is the threat of Lyme disease, with cases expected to climb yet again as climate change fuels tick activity. But two new studies point to new ...