Understanding the benefits and risks of hyperbaric oxygen therapy
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is well known for treating scuba and deep-sea divers affected by the rapid change in pressure around ...
Tag: Lyme Disease
Mount Sinai launches new center for complex chronic illnesses
Mount Sinai's Department of Rehabilitation and Human Performance has announced the grand opening of the Cohen Center for Recovery From ...
Study exposes racial disparities in Lyme disease diagnosis and treatment times
A recent JAMA Network Open study investigates whether the time of Lyme disease (LD) diagnosis and treatment varies between Black and White ...
Lyme disease aftercare: new insights into persistent symptoms
Individuals who undergo treatment for Lyme borreliosis (LB) often report persistent symptoms; however, not much is known about the risk ...
Tufts Lyme Disease Initiative receives $7M in grants to advance research to next level
Researchers at the Tufts Lyme Disease Initiative recently received grants totaling more than $7 million to build on an already ...
NIAID funds research to better understand Post-treatment Lyme Disease Syndrome
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, has awarded five projects ...
Researcher receives $2.7 million grant to study lingering Lyme disease symptoms
An estimated 1,200 Americans, on average, are diagnosed with Lyme disease each day. Some of those patients continue to experience ...
Ticks can be attracted to hosts by static electricity
Ticks can be attracted across air gaps several times larger than themselves by the static electricity that their hosts naturally ...
Self-directed autoantibodies against certain chemokines may protect against long-COVID
A recent study published in the journal Nature Immunology discovered autoantibodies against chemokines following severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 ...
How do cattle impact human vector-borne disease risk?
Scientists from the United States have conducted a systematic review to understand whether cattle increase the risk of contracting vector-borne ...