A growing tick population in the UK countryside is increasing the risk of Lyme disease, warns the Scottish Land & Estates ...

Our changing climate is creating new health risks for children — longer allergy seasons, extreme heat affecting young ...

Lyme disease might be the most common tick-borne illness, but there are several other diseases you should know about this summer.

In the realm of Lyme disease research, one antibiotic emerged as being highly effective for treatment of acute infection, and ...

May is Lyme Disease Awareness Month and the charity, Lyme Disease UK, is urging the public to look out for these dangerous ...

Scientists believe they know what causes the treated infection to mimic chronic illness: the body may be responding to remnants of the bacteria that causes Lyme that tend to pool in the liver and ...

Piperacillin, an antibiotic in the same class as penicillin, effectively cured mice of Lyme disease at 100-times less than the effective dose of doxycycline, the current gold standard treatment. At ...

A Northwestern University study reveals that piperacillin, a common antibiotic, effectively treats Lyme disease in mice at a ...

Lyme disease, a disease transmitted when deer ticks feed on infected animals like deer and rodents, and then bite humans, impacts nearly half a million individuals in the U.S. annually.

New research suggests that lingering cell wall fragments from the Lyme disease bacterium, Borrelia burgdorferi, may be responsible for persistent symptoms long after antibiotic treatment.

A warning is being issued over the rising risk of Lyme disease in the countryside, as the UK experiences a rise in tick ...