On May 29, HHS Secretary RFK Jr. announced the largest federal push against Lyme disease in the department’s history — tick-control pilots, millions in innovation prizes, a $10M diagnostics prize, and NIH research funding, with a goal of cutting Lyme cases 25% by 2035.
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Untangling Cardiovascular Disease (Parts 1–5)
This series is dedicated to my brother Jeff — taken by a heart attack at 59. No warning. No goodbye. Just gone. That loss is what drove me to spend months digging into the research on cardiovascular disease, and what I found should be far better known than it is. Cardiovascular disease kills more people …
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Dr. Steven Phillips Speaking at Health and Human Services Lyme Disease Roundtable — December 2025
Dr. Steven Phillips was invited to take part in a national Lyme disease roundtable convened and moderated by U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. The historic gathering took place in Washington, DC on December 15, 2025. It brought together clinicians and researchers to confront the diagnostic and clinical challenges of …
Chronic featured in NY Times
The NY Times discusses Dr. Phillips’s new book about chronic illness Long-Haul Covid and the Chronic Illness Debate: What persistent Covid cases might have in common with chronic fatigue syndrome and Lyme disease, and why it matters. By Ross Douthat As it happens, the minority view — that chronic Lyme is actually a chronic infection, …
The NY Post names Chronic as one of “The best new books to read”
Steven Phillips and Dana Parish (nonfiction, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)Dr. Phillips was a renowned physician when he himself became a patient — with a mystery illness that no one seemed able to diagnose. The same happened to Dana Parish. “Chronic” is a look at the pandemic of chronic conditions caused by common infections. A fascinating look …
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Dr. Phillips’ piece on the truth about chronic Lyme is now up on NBC News.
Lyme disease patients fight for their lives while academics fight each other. That’s just wrong. The number of people who get Lyme disease compared to how little research on it is ever funded is staggering. Scientific bias is hurting people. For patients, there is often nothing more soul-crushing than being inexplicably sick with doctor after …
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Dr. Phillips’ article is published in Norway’s largest newspaper
Linked below is the piece Dr. Phillips wrote, which was published in Norway’s largest newspaper, Aftenposten meninger (it can be translated from Norwegian to English on google translate). It was written in response to a piece by a Norwegian doctor, who makes a series of incorrect claims, including that chronic Lyme is as a pseudo-diagnosis and that researchers …
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