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“I’m Not Crazy, I’m Sick” follows the lives of three people suffering from chronic Lyme disease and their long-term struggles to be diagnosed and treated.

The study will focus on patients newly diagnosed with Lyme disease as well as patients diagnosed with both Lyme and a parasite that causes the disease babesiosis.

If not caught early enough, Lyme disease can manifest into meningitis, arthritis, heart problems or other diseases.

Not all rashes caused by Lyme disease look like the classic bulls-eye rash. See these Lyme disease rash pictures to know what to look for.

People who have been treated for Lyme disease, but continue to have symptoms, have changes in their brains that confirm the memory and concentration problems many of them have reported, a new study has found.

In their recent study published in PLOS ONE, Dr. John Aucott and Cherie Marvel found that unexpected white matter activity in the brain, a symptom normally considered pathological, was found to be correlated with better outcomes in patients with post-treatment Lyme disease (PTLD)...

In a study using specialized imaging techniques, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers report distinctive changes in the "white matter" and other brain tissue physiology of those with post-treatment Lyme disease, a condition affecting 10% to 20% of the nearly half a million Americans who contract Lyme disease annually.

Researchers report distinctive changes in the “white matter” and other brain tissue physiology of those with persistent Lyme disease,

Newly discovered molecular biomarkers should allow for much earlier detection of Lyme disease.

Public-health officials say ticks are emerging earlier and staying active longer because of changes in climate and land use, resulting in a rising risk of infection carried by the parasites.