Jenna’s Lyme Blog

Back in 1985, Dr. Alan MacDonald stunned the medical world with a special slide show on neo-natal tissue that he had amassed over years of autopsying stillborn babies as the pathologist at South Hampton Hospital. Using a darkfield microscope technique to capture the images on film, Dr. MacDonald presented his shocking hypothesis to the world in Vienna at the Second International Symposium on Lyme Disease and Related Disorders.

Posted on October 29th, 2008 under Chronic Lyme Disease, Lyme News, Research and Development. Tags: Alzheimer's, Chronic Lyme disease, Lyme Transfection. Comments: 1

Those of us with chronic Lyme have been forced to educate ourselves, and find each other for support and encouragement. And we usually find each other through support groups or internet forums, but always based on the terrible pain and various symptoms, even though many never receive a clinical diagnosis of Lyme. Do we feel crazy? It is hard not to when the conventional medical world call us delusional. Well, they can’t deny the severity of our condition for much longer thanks to two significant events

Posted on October 28th, 2008 under Chronic Lyme Disease, Lyme News, Research and Development. Tags: Chronic Lyme disease, diagnosis of chronic Lyme disease, Number with Lyme disease, treatment for chronic Lyme disease. Comments: None

- Viral Genetics, Inc. (OTC:VRAL), a biotechnology company that discovers and develops immune-based therapies, today unveiled to the general public initial findings of its ongoing Lyme Disease study.

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Posted on October 21st, 2008 under Chronic Lyme Disease, Lyme News, Research and Development. Tags: Chronic Lyme disease, Lyme disease vaccine, Research on Lyme Disease. Comments: None

As Lyme disease is growing exponentially and has reached epidemic proportions, the pressure for viable solutions present a unique opportunity to research and development companies around the world. A recent announcement should give us all tremendous hope.

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Posted on October 15th, 2008 under Lyme News, Research and Development. Tags: Chronic Lyme disease, non-toxic spray to kill ticks, Research and Development. Comments: None

A new type of immune-based therapy has recently been discovered by Viral Genetics, Inc. This biotechnology company is located in San Marino, California with a mission to discovers and develops immune-based therapies for HIV and AIDS using its thymus nuclear protein compound (TNP), which may help Lyme disease.

Posted on October 10th, 2008 under Chronic Lyme Disease, Research and Development. Tags: Chronic Lyme disease, Development of treatment for Lyme disease, Research on Lyme Disease. Comments: None

Approximately ten years ago Wei Gang Qui, a graduate student at SUNY requested to work with Dr. Benjamin Luft on Lyme disease. He was then given the glamorous job of collecting ticks!

Studies on what eventually turned out to be twenty strains turned up surprising evidence. Of the twenty, ten strains of ticks did not infect humans.

Posted on October 9th, 2008 under Chronic Lyme Disease, Research and Development. Tags: Bulls Eye Rash, Chronic Lyme disease, EM rash, New Treatment for Lyme Disease. Comments: 1

According to Business First Magazine, there is an exciting new technology that has just been licensed by a team of scientists from the University of Louisville (KY) that should offer hope to the thousands of Lyme sufferers who struggle to find a solid medical test to prove their condition.

Posted on October 9th, 2008 under Research and Development. Tags: Chronic Lyme disease, New Test for Lyme Disease. Comments: None

When you get sick your body automatically turns on your immune system to fight infection and restore health (hence the term “auto-immune”.)  Normally, the immune system can distinguish between “self” and “not self” and attacks those tissues that it recognizes as “not self.”  (This is usually the desired response, but not always. For instance the [...]

Posted on September 15th, 2008 under Research and Development. Tags: Autoimmune Dysfunction, Chronic Lyme disease, Inflammation. Comments: 1

Exciting research is being conducted under Dr. Mario Philipp at Tulane National Primate Research Center using rhesus monkeys which are very similar to humans biologically. The objective is to better understand how the spirochetes infect the brain, how they damage the brain and how they can be destroyed.

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Posted on August 28th, 2008 under Chronic Lyme Disease, Research and Development. Tags: Chronic Lyme disease, Neurological Lyme disease, Research on Lyme Disease. Comments: None