Articles on Lyme Disease
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MAY 6, 2023, TRIAL SITE NEWS AND LYMEDISEASE.ORG
A Lyme Lawsuit Ends In A Settlement. Does Anybody Win?
APRIL 29, 2023, TRIAL SITE NEWS AND RESCUE
A Child Can No Longer Walk. Before Covid, There Was Lyme Disease Denial.
Julia Bruzzese had a classic Lyme rash at 10 years old. She wasn’t treated early—or for the next two years. She stopped walking a month before turning 12.
JUNE 26, 2022 RESCUE AND TRIAL SITE NEWS
The Heroic Dr. Jones & the Gift of a Boy’s Life
Before Covid, and doctors like Pierre Kory and Peter McCullough, Dr. Charles Ray Jones bucked mainstream dogma on another misunderstood illness: Lyme disease. Troy Murphy’s health was restored by a heroic Lyme disease doctor, Charles Ray Jones. We need more such physicians.
FEB. 26, 2020: FORBES.COM
Tipping Point: The Resistance Is Gaining In The Lyme Wars
Photos provided
MAR. 13, 2020: FORBES.COM
Lessons From Lyme Disease: Six Reasons The CDC’s COVID-19 Failure Was Predictable
2019
NOV. 25, 2019: LYMEDISEASE.ORG
Minnesota medical board ties the hands of Lyme-treating doctors
SEP. 9, 2019: LYMEDISEASE.ORG
Wrongful death suit shows pitfalls of IDSA Lyme guidelines
My TEDX Talk, 2018
2018: TED X
WATCH MARY BETH’S TEDX TALK. IT IS A WARNING. SHARE AND COMMENT PLEASE.
“A scourge of ticks: Armed, dangerous, global.”
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MAJOR INSTALLMENTS IN POUGHKEEPSIE JOURNAL LYME DISEASE SERIES
“No Small Thing,” 2012-2015
MAY 31, 2015:
Investigation: Patients' voices stifled.
SEPT. 15, 2013:
Doctors Bucking Lyme Protocols
MAY 19, 2013:
Chronic Lyme disease: Is it real?
DECEMBER 23, 2012:
Babesiosis and the blood supply: Tiny tick, big threat
DECEMBER 24, 2012:
OCTOBER 21, 2012:
Flunking the Lyme disease test: Dicey path to Lyme diagnosis.
AUGUST 19, 2012:
Lyme disease: Antibiotics Fuel Debate.
AUG. 20, 2019: SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN
The U.S. vanquished malaria and AIDS, but Lyme is raging unchecked
AUG. 24, 2019: NJ.COM
Medicine and government have failed to help us battle Lyme disease
AUGUST 29, 2019: SYRACUSE POST STANDARD
Medicine, government have failed us on Lyme disease
WATCH MARY BETH’S TEDX 2018 TALK.
A scourge of ticks: Armed, dangerous, global
MARCH. 29, 2019: THE CHRONICLE HERALD, HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA
Lyme patients are forging path of 1980s AIDS activists. They should be heard.
MARCH 21, 2019: LYMEDISEASE.ORG
IDSA lawsuit: Patients may have to undergo independent medical exams
FEB. 25, 2019: LYMEDISEASE.ORG
Patient lawsuit against IDSA and insurers moves forward in Texas
JAN. 25, 2019: SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN
When Lyme Disease Strikes an Unborn Child
2018
SEPT. 19, 2018: NEWARK STAR LEDGER
Lyme disease isn't going away soon. Government should step in
JUNE 24, 2018: PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE
To fight ticks and their diseases, a “Manhattan Project” will be needed
JUNE, 11, 2018: SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN
In the Battle Against Lyme Disease, the Ticks Are Winning
MAY 11, 2018: THE GLOBE AND MAIL
Lyme disease has arrived. Why hasn’t a reliable treatment?
APR 23, 2018: THE DAILY CLIMATE
EXCERPT: How migratory birds are moving Lyme disease
APRIL 9, 2018: CONNECTICUT POST
Ticks getting a warmer welcome
April 2, 2018: aeon
2017
DECEMBER 7, 2017: HUFFINGTON POST
10 points about suing the architects of Lyme policy—as a task force meets to review it.
NOVEMBER 2, 2017: HUFFINGTON POST
Lyme bug stronger than antibiotics in animals and test tubes. Now study people.
JULY 4, 2017: NEWSDAY
The peril of chronic Lyme disease.
MARCH 3, 2017: HUFFINGTON POST
Swedish MD suspended over Lyme disease care; patients bereft.
JAN. 9, 2017: HUFFINGTON POST
Flunk the Lyme test? Just wait and get sicker.
2016
SEPTEMBER 7, 2016: HUFFINGTON POST
CDC Says Fewer Suffer After Lyme Disease. Doesn’t Say, If Treated Early.
JULY 16, 2016 HUFFINGTON POST
Go-To Lyme Drugs Don't Always Kill The Bug.
My Articles on Lyme Disease
MAY 6, 2023, TRIAL SITE NEWS AND LYMEDISEASE.ORG
A Lyme Lawsuit Ends In A Settlement. Does Anybody Win?
APRIL 29, 2023, TRIAL SITE NEWS AND RESCUE
A Child Can No Longer Walk. Before Covid, There Was Lyme Disease Denial.
Julia Bruzzese had a classic Lyme rash at 10 years old. She wasn’t treated early—or for the next two years. She stopped walking a month before turning 12.
JUNE 26, 2022 RESCUE AND TRIAL SITE NEWS
The Heroic Dr. Jones & the Gift of a Boy’s Life
Before Covid, and doctors like Pierre Kory and Peter McCullough, Dr. Charles Ray Jones bucked mainstream dogma on another misunderstood illness: Lyme disease.
Troy Murphy’s health was restored by a heroic Lyme disease doctor, Charles Ray Jones. We need more such physicians.
FEB. 26, 2020: FORBES.COM
Tipping Point: The Resistance Is Gaining In The Lyme Wars
Photos provided
MAR. 13, 2020: FORBES.COM
Lessons From Lyme Disease: Six Reasons The CDC’s COVID-19 Failure Was Predictable
2019
NOV. 25, 2019: LYMEDISEASE.ORG
Minnesota medical board ties the hands of Lyme-treating doctors
SEP. 9, 2019: LYMEDISEASE.ORG
Wrongful death suit shows pitfalls of IDSA Lyme guidelines
Collage by MBP
My TEDX Talk, 2018
2018: TED X
WATCH MARY BETH’S TEDX TALK. IT IS A WARNING. SHARE AND COMMENT PLEASE.
“A scourge of ticks: Armed, dangerous, global.”
MAJOR INSTALLMENTS IN POUGHKEEPSIE JOURNAL LYME DISEASE SERIES
“No Small Thing,” 2012-2015
MAY 31, 2015:
Investigation: Patients' voices stifled.
SEPT. 15, 2013:
Doctors Bucking Lyme Protocols
MAY 19, 2013:
Chronic Lyme disease: Is it real?
DECEMBER 23, 2012:
Babesiosis and the blood supply: Tiny tick, big threat
DECEMBER 24, 2012:
OCTOBER 21, 2012:
Flunking the Lyme disease test: Dicey path to Lyme diagnosis.
AUGUST 19, 2012:
Lyme disease: Antibiotics Fuel Debate.
Awards for Lyme reporting
2016
New York State Associated Press: First Place, Public Service: Lyme disease investigation
Judge's comments: “This series — by far the most in-depth with dozens of stories, a public forum and a gorgeous and enlightening special section — is the clear winner. It covers the scourge of Lyme Disease … and also tackles bad medicine and ignorance as key elements of a larger medical health issue. Excellent work all-around . . . This newspaper has truly served its public.”
2015
New York News Publishers Association, First Place Community Service Lyme disease coverage
For the Poughkeepsie Journal, which prompted passage of state law to protect doctors who treat Lyme disease
2014
New York News Publishers Association, First Place, Investigative Reporting: “No Small Thing,” investigation of Lyme disease.
2014
New York News Publishers Association, First Place, Community Service: “No Small Thing,” investigation of Lyme disease.
2014
New York State Associated Press: First Place, Continuing Coverage: Lyme disease investigation.
2013
Society of Professional Journalists Sigma Delta Chi Award, First Place, Investigative Reporting: “No Small Thing,” investigation of Lyme disease.Judges comments: "Excellent series, exhaustively reported. Great example of explanatory journalism on a matter of public health concern using both well-chosen expert sources and ordinary people facing extraordinary circumstances.”
2013
New York City Society of the Silurians, First Place, Community Service: “No Small Thing,” investigation of Lyme disease.
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Mary Beth has been honored with more than 100 awards in a long career, including honors for other subjects from the Scripps Howard Foundation (among them the Edward J. Meeman Award for Environmental Reporting), two National Headliner Awards, the Inter America Press Association Award for reporting on Mexican migration, Associated Press Managing Editors Award, the Gannett Company’s Outstanding Achievement by an Individual Award, Sigma Delta Chi Award for Investigative Reporting, New York City Deadline Club Rube Award, Society of the Silurians Investigative Reporting and Public Service Awards, several National Council on Crime and Delinquency PASS awards, and others.