WASHINGTON (AP) — Lyme disease can cause serious harm, but so can bogus tests and treatments. The complexity of diagnosing the tick-borne disease has given rise to an entire industry of unapproved ...

Congress will ask the watchdog to discover whether the DOD weaponized ticks with Lyme disease as part of a Cold War-era bioweapons program.

You just pulled a deer tick off your body — now what? For Long Islanders, who live in one of the nation’s Lyme disease hot spots, the first thought may be to rush to the doctor’s office or clinic for ...

"Nonstandard" tests and treatments for Lyme disease are on the rise, which could have devastating consequences for patients, experts say. PBS reported on the trend, noting that people might spend ...

Lone star ticks, which originated in the southern United States, are on the move, potentially complicating the diagnosis of tickborne diseases in areas where they now overlap with ticks that cause ...

Researchers at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center have developed a way to diagnose Lyme disease earlier and more accurately than traditional testing methods. Over the past 30 years, Lyme disease has ...

Less then 20 percent of specimens submitted for Lyme disease testing come back positive for the disease, according to a study published in Clinical Infectious Diseases. Researchers asked large ...

It's Lyme disease season. Your patient clearly has signs and symptoms that suggest Lyme disease, and you practice in an area where the disease is endemic. So now what do you do? Here are five things ...

Medically reviewed by Lauren Schlanger, MD Key Takeaways Lyme disease cannot spread from person to person through touch, ...