WASHINGTON (AP) — Lyme disease can cause serious harm, but so can bogus tests and treatments. The complexity of diagnosing the tick-borne disease has given rise to an entire industry of unapproved ...

Doctors mainly test for celiac disease using blood tests and small intestine biopsies. Testing for celiac disease aims to identify certain celiac-linked antibodies. These are proteins the immune ...

It's Lyme disease season. Your patient clearly has signs and symptoms that suggest Lyme disease, and you practice in an area where the disease is endemic. So now what do you do? Here are five things ...

Kimberly Dawn Neumann is a New York City-based magazine and book writer whose work has appeared in a wide variety of publications, including Women’s Health, Health, Cosmopolitan, Fitness, Prevention, ...

Computational point-of-care sensors can significantly improve access to diagnostics by enabling rapid patient testing outside ...

When Americans spend time in the great outdoors this summer, they don’t want to come back home with any uninvited guests. Lyme disease, the most common tick-borne disease in the United States, can ...

You just pulled a deer tick off your body — now what? For Long Islanders, who live in one of the nation’s Lyme disease hot spots, the first thought may be to rush to the doctor’s office or clinic for ...

FILE - This undated photo provided by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows a blacklegged tick, also known as a deer tick, a carrier of Lyme disease. (CDC via AP, File) ...