May is Lyme Disease Awareness Month, and spring is one of the most important times of year to become “tick smart” by learning ...

The weakness is found in the Lyme-causing bacteria itself, which is the lactate dehydrogenase (BbLDH) enzyme. Researchers say ...

Dermatologists break down the most common circular rashes that aren’t ringworm, including hives, lupus, and atopic dermatitis ...

Detecting Lyme Disease can be difficult to identify in the early stages as the early symptoms—fever, headache, stiffness, lethargy, and a myriad of other mild complaints, are often dismissed as the ...

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 ...

On darker skin, the appearance can be different — check for a raised ring around the bite. The lyme disease rash usually expands over time. It can cause pain, burning, or itching, and it may be ...

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

Your mood plummets as you remember ticks spread Lyme disease. Lyme disease gained notoriety when cases spiked in 2022 and 2023, over doubling between 2017 and 2023, according to the CDC.

effectively cured mice of Lyme disease at 100-times less than the effective dose of doxycycline, the current gold standard treatment. At such a low dose, piperacillin also had the added ...

“The quicker you can get the ticks off you, the better off you are,” Garcia said. Garcia added that an early sign of Lyme disease is a rash that forms a “ring around where the tick would be.” Students ...

But the longer a tick stays attached to you, the more likely it is to transmit Borrelia burgdorferi (the bacteria that causes Lyme disease), if the tick is a carrier. If not found and treated ...