FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contact: Tara DiMilia, 908-947-0500, tara.dimilia@TMstrat.com Bay Area Lyme Foundation Tick Testing Program Adds Bartonella Pathogen Assay Nationwide Free Tick Testing Initiative Will Inform Citizen-Science Studies to Better Understand the Spread of Ticks Carrying Diseases Throughout U.S. Silicon Valley, CA, July 11, 2019 — Bay Area Lyme Foundation, a leading sponsor of Lyme…
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Bay Area Lyme Foundation Offers Free Tick Testing Nationwide
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contact: Tara DiMilia, 908-947-0500, tara.dimilia@TMstrat.com Bay Area Lyme Foundation Offers Free Tick Testing Nationwide Free Tick Testing Initiative Is First In The Nation and Aims to Map Tick-borne Diseases Across the U.S. Through Crowd-sourcing Silicon Valley, CA, February 16, 2016 — Bay Area Lyme Foundation, a leading nonprofit funder of innovative Lyme…
Tick Testing
When to Get a Tick Tested You should strongly consider having your tick tested if: The tick was attached to your body, not simply crawling around You live in or have visited a place where there are infected ticks Lyme disease has been reported in 49 US states and 65 countries around the world. Infected…
Dr. Scott Commins, Alpha-Gal Syndrome, and a Guide to Tick-Induced Meat Allergies
Ticktective Podcast Transcript Ticktective™ host Dana Parish interviews Scott P. Commins, MD, PhD, about the growing prevalence of alpha-gal syndrome, a food allergy condition caused by a tick bite, where people develop an allergic reaction to a sugar found in red meat and other mammalian products. Symptoms can include hives, gastrointestinal distress, and potentially…
Toxic Load: Healing from Tick-borne Disease and Autoimmune Illness
BAL “Quick Bites” Series “If you have an autoimmune disease, our allopathic system does not have great answers that are solution-based or root cause-based to chronic complex illness.” – Jill Carnahan, MD In this edition of our Ticktective video and podcast series, Dana Parish sits down with Jill Carnahan, MD, a functional medicine doctor…
Toxic Load: Healing from Tick-borne Disease, Long Covid, Mold, & Bad Food
Jill Carnahan, MDJill Carnahan, MD, is a functional medicine doctor with a huge media presence, board-certified in Family Medicine and Integrative Holistic Medicine. She is the Medical Director of Flatiron Functional Medicine, a sought-after practice with a broad range of clinical services. As a survivor of breast cancer, Crohn’s disease, and toxic mold illness she…
Top Lifestyle Interventions to Aid Recovery in Tick-borne Illness: An Interactive Discussion with Concrete Takeaways
BAL Spotlights Series In this article transcribed from our Distinguished Speaker Series webinar, Sunjya Schweig, MD, founder and CEO of the California Center for Functional Medicine and member of Bay Area Lyme’s Scientific Advisory Board, discusses how recovering from tick-borne illnesses can be aided through carefully devised combinations of conventional and functional medicine, tailored…
Bay Area Lyme Foundation Celebrates Department of Defense CDMRP Tick-borne Disease Awardees
Bay Area Lyme Foundation Celebrates Department of Defense CDMRP Tick-borne Disease Awardees Projects of three awardees to be enabled by Lyme Disease Biobank samples PORTOLA VALLEY, Calif., March 23, 2023—Bay Area Lyme Foundation, a leading sponsor of Lyme disease research in the US, announces that two projects it has previously funded have now received Department…
New Study Finds American Dog Tick Populations Expanding into Colorado, and Identifies Rocky Mountain Wood Ticks in 5 More Counties Than Documented by CDC
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE New Study Finds American Dog Tick Populations Expanding into Colorado, and Identifies Rocky Mountain Wood Ticks in 5 More Counties Than Documented by CDC Citizen scientists contributing to Bay Area Lyme Foundation’s Free Tick Testing program assist in identifying ticks capable of carrying disease in Colorado Portola Valley, CA, October 25, 2022—Bay…
Bay Area Lyme Partners with Junior Golf Associations to Educate Thousands of Young Golfers about Tick Bite Prevention
BAL Happenings Series Promoting tick bite prevention and educating everyone about the serious health impacts of tick-borne diseases has been a consistent objective for Bay Area Lyme Foundation. After all, although the foundation’s mission is to make Lyme disease easy to diagnose and simply to cure, it would be so much better if nobody…