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The Lyme Action Network
The Lyme Action Network is located in the upstate region of New York State, providing general information and resources to the public as well as to medical practitioners seeking more information about Lyme disease and other Tick Borne Diseases (TBDs).
Through this website, the Lyme Action Network will help you to find the information you need to know about Lyme disease and other tick-borne diseases; direct you to organizations, websites, and services that can help you if you need assistance; and inform you about events and activities in the upstate New York region related to these difficult diseases.
The Lyme Action Network's work covers a spectrum of initiatives, from public education campaigns and patient support programs to professional education endeavors and public and private advocacy.
If you would like to be added to our mailing list, please fill out the form at the bottom of this page or send us a note to info@lymeactionnetwork.org. Thanks!
Through this website, the Lyme Action Network will help you to find the information you need to know about Lyme disease and other tick-borne diseases; direct you to organizations, websites, and services that can help you if you need assistance; and inform you about events and activities in the upstate New York region related to these difficult diseases.
The Lyme Action Network's work covers a spectrum of initiatives, from public education campaigns and patient support programs to professional education endeavors and public and private advocacy.
If you would like to be added to our mailing list, please fill out the form at the bottom of this page or send us a note to info@lymeactionnetwork.org. Thanks!
Headlines and Notices
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JULY 15, 2016
Focus on LYME and the Stram Center for Integrative Medicine Invite you to an Informational Forum and Fundraising Reception Friday, July 15, 2016 click on "EVENTS" above, for more information REGISTRATION: http://bit.ly/1MmtVhl SPACE LIMITED Click above on the EVENTS tab for more information... |
May 19, 2016
Lyme Action Network to Host Science and Policy Forum on Capitol Hill Local Experts Ahern & Stram will Join National Panel click "Events" above for more information 
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TIME SENSITIVE ISSUE. PLEASE NOTE:
Our Lyme bill – S. 1503 – sponsored by Senator Blumenthal to create a Lyme and Tick-borne Disease Advisory Panel, is "stuck" in the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, with only a few days left to “unstick” it!
Although we have made a lot of headway in this effort, we need to turn to the community again to ask for you to make another round of calls. This is important!
PLEASE call your TWO US Senators (find numbers here) and tell them you are calling to ask their support of S. 1503, the Lyme bill, and ask them to urge Senator Alexander, Chairman of the HELP Committee, to add the Lyme bill's language to the Medical Innovation legislation his committee has been working on.
Add anything you want about your personal story.
That is all you need to do, and it WILL be a huge help.
THE BACKSTORY
Senate Bill S.1503, offers the best chance we’ve ever had to have our advocates, scientists, doctors, and patients HEARD in a policy-making environment at the federal level! This legislation is critical to our Lyme community but right now it's at a critical impasse in the U.S. Senate. We need to create a surge of calls and letters to all our senators this week so they know Lyme disease is important to us and that we want them to pass this legislation.
Our best shot at getting our bill passed at this point is to get the language into a bigger health bill the Senate is working on by adding the language as an amendment.
We need your senators to ask Senator Lamar Alexander to add the Lyme language to the Medical Innovations legislation before it’s too late!
A similar effort was successful in the U.S. House of Representatives last July, so with forceful public pressure, we KNOW this can work. But we need this public SURGE right now, this week.
Passing big bills calls for a big effort. Even if you have contacted your senators before, PLEASE CONTACT THEM AGAIN! (It’s the “squeaky wheel principle in action! Once is never enough.) Call them, write them, do whatever you can! If we succeed, we will go down in the Lyme history books!
When you call, you will talk to an aide in your senator's office. Here’s a suggestion for what you should say:
“Hello, I am a constituent of the Senator’s and I’m calling to express my support for The Lyme and Tick-Borne Disease Prevention, Education, and Research Act, Senate Bill 1503. I urge the Senator to ask Senator Alexander, Chairman of the Senate HELP Committee, to add the Lyme bill language as an amendment to the medical innovation bill his committee has been working on. Thank you.”
You can tell the aide more about your experience with Lyme if you want. Be respectful -- remember we are asking for their help. We NEED their help!
To read more about the legislation, click here. To read blogs on the 18-year history of our efforts to pass Lyme legislation, click here.
Please be on the lookout for future alerts for this important legislation. We hope our next message will be to announce our success, but if not, be ready to make more calls.
This Call to Action is being supported by Lyme organizations around the country. Thank you for your help!
Thank you for supporting the work we do.
Your donation is tax deductible.
Please mail donations to:
Lyme Action Network
PO Box 186
Kattskill Bay, NY 12844
Thank You!
EARN THE FACTS
Available in pdf format
8 pages of important information based upon current research
Information every family needs to know.
http://www.jimapco.com/lyme/learnthefacts.pdf
This publication was made possible by a grant from the South High Marathon Dance, with additional assistance from the Post Star, The Saratogian, and The Chronicle.
If you would like an "How To" guide to help you to arrange to have this publication inserted into YOUR local paper, please contact: info@LymeActionNetwork.org
(Thanks to our corporate sponsor, JIMAPCO, for website services.)
Available in pdf format
8 pages of important information based upon current research
Information every family needs to know.
http://www.jimapco.com/lyme/learnthefacts.pdf
This publication was made possible by a grant from the South High Marathon Dance, with additional assistance from the Post Star, The Saratogian, and The Chronicle.
If you would like an "How To" guide to help you to arrange to have this publication inserted into YOUR local paper, please contact: info@LymeActionNetwork.org
(Thanks to our corporate sponsor, JIMAPCO, for website services.)
INTRODUCING...
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Short, informative videos on critical topics
FYI: Quick and Handy Resources
Tick Twisters Available online
Tick Twisters are the safest and easiest way to remove ticks from people and pets quickly, painlessly and completely. Tweezers can squeeze the contents of the tick into your skin. "TWIST, DON'T TWEEZE!"
Watch the demo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIoCTWYJsvo
Now available through JIMAPCO's website. JIMAPCO, Inc. supports the activities of the Lyme Action Network. http://www.jimapco.com/shop/otom-tick-twister/
Watch the demo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIoCTWYJsvo
Now available through JIMAPCO's website. JIMAPCO, Inc. supports the activities of the Lyme Action Network. http://www.jimapco.com/shop/otom-tick-twister/
Share this brochure...
Click to see our It Might Be Lyme...brochure in pdf format. You can print it! You can email the link! You can share it!
http://www.jimapco.com/lyme/imblbrochure.pdf
http://www.jimapco.com/lyme/imblbrochure.pdf
In his New York Times Bestseller, "Why Can't I Get Better? Solving the Mystery of Lyme and Chronic Disease", Richard I. Horowitz, MD, offers a questionnaire to help readers do a self-assesment of their symptoms. With Dr. Horowitz's permission, the Lyme Action Network has excerpted the questonnaire and has made it available in a pdf that you can download.
Click here: http://www.jimapco.com/lyme/hq.pdf
Share this list of most frequently asked questions:
Some of the most frequently asked questions have been compiled here...click on logo.
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DISCLAIMER: The Lyme Action Network is not a medical organization, and it does not purport to provide medical advice. The information herein is provided in good faith for general information purposes only. We do not make any warranties about the completeness, reliability nor accuracy of this information. Any action you take upon the information herein is strictly at your own risk. and we will not be liable for any losses and damages in connection with the use of our informational materials.