BY ELLA STEINBECK I have been busy going to doctors and trying to find answers. It turns out this Lyme disease diagnosis is not clear cut. At all. I had hoped it would solve some riddles instead of creating them. I’m in the process of getting blood work and MRI’s and inguinal pathway ultrasounds and […]
BY ELLA STEINBECK I have been absent. Not just absent from my humor column. I have been absent from life. As you know, or might know, I have something called Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome. It’s painful and horrible and since it affects collagen there is no part of my body that is off limits. If you have […]
State Senate Candidate Scott Vanderhoef called on the New York State Department of Health to increase and prioritize research of the Longhorned tick, which was recently discovered in multiple locations within Westchester and Rockland Counties. Lyme disease and other tick-borne diseases are a threat to our families and pets, however, it took the medical community […]
BY JOE KUHN The weather is getting warmer, but spring is not all sunshine and roses. The population of disease-carrying deer ticks has been on the increase and with the warmer weather, these pests tend to emerge. “We are in the middle of a tick explosion,” Senate Minority leader Chuck Schumer warned during a press conference […]