Post-Treatment Lyme Syndrome and Central Sensitization Batheja S, Nields JA, Landa A, Fallon BA. The Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, online before print, 2013 Feb 27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1176/appi.neuropsych.12090223 Abstract Central sensitization is a process that links a variety of chronic pain disorders that are characterized by hypersensitivity to noxious stimuli and pain in response to non-noxious stimuli. Among [...]

What have you heard about tickborne Lyme for the last 30 years? That it’s rare, scary, acute, treatable… The government warns about its spread and implores people to go to a doctor upon seeing the telltale bulls-eye rash. What happens when they actually do? Many have researched the controversial beginnings of Lyme disease, but this [...]

Lyme disease — it has become epidemic on Long Island and much of the New York Metropolitan Area, indeed across the United States. But as bad as the illness has become, so has treatment for it — health insurers have discouraged long-term treatment for what is often a long-term illness. Suffolk County Long Island Legislator Edward Romaine recently held [...]