By Thomas M. Grier, M.S. © What Goes Around Comes Around: Old Snake Oil Cures Are Being Repackaged and Sold One of the problems of having a chronic illness in the family is seeking out unconventional treatments. What do you do when the established medical protocols have failed? What do you do when conventional medicine […]

By Thomas M. Grier, M.S. © Springtime is tick time. This means we will soon be seeing those cautionary ads on television telling us to use tick repellents. In almost every instance, the active ingredient in those advertised tick repellents will be DEET, which is the active ingredient in most mosquito repellents. DEET is an […]

By Thomas M. Grier, M.S. © Three Main Categories of Lyme Disease Tests: 1. Indirect Tests (serum antibody tests): ELISA; Western Blot; IFA; Borreliacidal Antibody Assay (Gunderson test);T-cell Activation Test 2. Direct detection tests: PCR (DNA amplification); Lyme Urine Antigen Test (LUAT); Antigen Capture Test; culturing of skin, blood, CSF, urine, or tissue; immune complex […]

Editorial by Thomas M. Grier, M.S. © In 1975 the term “Lyme Arthritis” first entered the vocabulary of the physicians in America. Since that time Lyme disease and Lyme-like diseases have become recognized worldwide. But in the 28 years since “Lyme Arthritis” was first described: What do we actually know? And what do we yet […]