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Lyme Testimonial
Allen Bargfrede was infected with Lyme disease in 2013. Allen Bargfrede Age: 39 Associate Professor at Berklee College of Music, Boston Read our investigation here I found a tick attached to my...
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Many Lyme disease tests may not accurately diagnose patients
Deer ticks that can infect people with Lyme disease are often no bigger than a poppy seed. (Lauren Owens/NECIR) Many Lyme disease tests may not accurately diagnose patients As Lyme disease becomes an...
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Full List of Rejected Tests
At least seven labs in the U.S. have been denied permission to offer Lyme tests over the past decade in New York, according to state records obtained by the New England Center for Investigative...
View ArticleProfessor Onderdonk Explains Lyme Disease Tests – Extended Interview
As Lyme disease becomes an increasingly challenging public health threat across the Northeast, a growing number of tests for the vexing ailment may be misdiagnosing patients when telling them that they...
View ArticleLyme disease report: Video with Beth Daley
Reporter Beth Daley joins NECN to talk about Lyme disease tests. Head over to NECN for the full video.
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FDA to regulate Lyme, other diagnostic tests
FDA oversight will be phased in over nine years, with the first batch of highest-risk tests subject to FDA review a year after the proposed rules are finalized. (Lauren Owens/NECIR) By: Beth Daley and...
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Despite spread of Lyme disease, Mass. dedicates no money to prevention
The predawn rumble of pesticide-spraying trucks is a rite of spring in almost 200 Massachusetts communities. Some $11 million is spent in the state each year controlling and counting the pests and...
View ArticleLyme-infected dogs: 95 percent never develop symptoms; no such luck for Dani
One morning last July, Brookline resident Neal Heffron found Dani, his 18-month-old Australian Shepherd with a sleek coat and unbridled energy, collapsed in her bed. She had been vomiting, suffered a...
View ArticleMarkey, other lawmakers, call for better oversight of diagnostic tests
Sen. Edward J. Markey and other lawmakers are urging the Obama Administration to release draft recommendations that could spell out how a growing number of diagnostic tests for cancer and other medical...
View ArticleFDA to regulate Lyme, other diagnostic tests now exempt from oversight
by Beth Daley and Samantha Costanzo Thousands of tests on the market take advantage of a legal loophole that exempts them from requirements that their makers prove they correctly identify what they...
View ArticleStudy finds cancer diagnoses delayed because of chronic Lyme misdiagnosis
John Burns wasn’t getting better. Diagnosed with Lyme disease with a federally approved test near his home in Albany, N.Y. six years ago, he was treated with several courses of antibiotics. Seven...
View ArticleTo regulate or not: FDA hears arguments on medical tests
Anyone who has ever gotten a medical test – to detect cancer, determine fetal health or even figure out food allergies – may want to pay close attention to a controversy on display in Washington...
View ArticleNECIR reporter awarded $15,000 to investigate genetic tests
NECIR reporter Beth Daley’s examination into examinations of unregulated medical tests – for everything from cancer to Lyme disease to prenatal genetic defects – and how they are establishing a...
View ArticleNECIR reporter Beth Daley wins investigative award from Association of Health...
The New England Center for Investigative Reporting won a first place nod for investigative reporting in the Awards for Excellence in Health Care Journalism from the national Association of Health Care...
View ArticleWhy is it so hard to test for Lyme disease?
WGBH’s Rupa Shenoy and Professor Andrew Onderdonk discuss NECIR’s recent investigation into Lyme disease testing in America with The Takeaway. Read the full investigation by Beth Daley. The post Why...
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