State & Lake

Coping with Lyme disease:  Local victims hope to warn others to take precautions — Three generations of a Jack Tobichuk’s Foxboro family have been stricken with Lyme disease. And Foxboro police officer Doug Miller is quietly suffering with late-stage Lyme. After a five-day hospitalization in Boston, Miller, 58, is hooked up at home to a [...]

Tick-Ing Time Bomb — Lyme Disease.  Raby has had symptoms of Lyme disease for 14 years, and like the people profiled in Andy Abrahams Wilson’s film, believes she has a chronic form of the illness that’s being dismissed by the mainstream medical community. “The average Lyme patient sees 15 doctors before they are diagnosed,” Raby [...]

Hot Spot: Lyme Disease in Duxbury- The date was June 23, 2006. Doctors couldn’t give the Standish Shore resident a clear diagnosis –– she was told she might have everything from Lupus to Fibromyalgia to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. When Lyme disease was suggested, Coombs’ primary care doctor was skeptical because she didn’t have the telltale [...]

On Lyme Disease – Lyme disease brings not only those challenges, but a whole lot more.  The Canadian Lyme Disease Foundation lists over 70 different signs and symptoms of the disease.  It has purportedly been misdiagnosed as Juvenile Arthritis, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Reactive Arthritis, Infectious Arthritis, Osteoarthritis, Fibromyalgia, Raynaud’s Syndrome, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Multiple Sclerosis, Scleroderma, Lupus, [...]

New Jersey among states hardest hit by Lyme disease — From 1990 to 2006, New Jersey has had one of the highest incidences of Lyme disease cases in the nation, as measured by the CDC surveillance criteria, and Monmouth County ranks second in the state.  “It is pretty much epidemic-proportioned in many areas of the [...]

It’s Tick Time: Prevent Lyme Disease — The CDC today announced that reported cases of Lyme disease have more than doubled since 1991. People can get Lyme disease if they’re bitten by an infected blacklegged tick (also known as deer tick). Spring and summer are prime time for those ticks. The first sign of [...]

Lyme disease patients share their struggles– Alaina Rubin is just one of an estimated 200,000 people inAmerica, and numerous people around the world, who suffer from Lyme disease and other tickborne illnesses.   Alaina was not diagnosed for eight months, even though she went to four or five physicians and had three emergency room visits.  [Read [...]