04.30.2018 News This week in history 50 YEARS AGO IN HISTORY United States and North Vietnamese officials agreed to begin peace talks in Paris. A general strike escalated in France, shutting down newspaper distributions, air...
08.28.2017 Columns Suffolk Cloeseup: Ending the scourge of Lyme disease Want some good news? The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced last month a plan to expedite the approval process for a vaccine to ward off Lyme disease.
07.22.2014 News Tick target: New Lyme vaccine in clinical trials If you can’t easily eradicate ticks or rid the Island of their deer hosts, the medical community has returned to a Lyme Disease vaccine, now that the numbers...
07.02.2014 News Lyme Disease: There once was a vaccine against it Lyme Disease vaccine? Amid all the debate about 4-posters and culling the deer herd to try bring the incidence of tick-borne diseases under control, did anyone ever entertain the...
07.12.2012 Columns Suffolk Closeup: one less weapon against Lyme disease Fifteen years ago, I got what was then the new vaccine to ward off Lyme disease. Administered in a series of shots, it was called LYMErix and was manufactured...