Summer brings lots of great elements, such as barbecues, beach days and later sunsets ― but it also means the start of a widely despised time: tick season. The small parasites can be hugely ...

Our two dogs just had their annual exams with our new vet. One was not previously vaccinated against Lyme Disease by the vet we used before. We live in Metrowest Boston and there are plenty of ticks ...

Warming temperatures caused by climate change have allowed for the expansion of tick habitats, with populations moving farther north. An increase in the number of days above freezing has also expanded ...

Tucked away in a ground-floor lab in Richmond, Virginia, is a bank of industrial freezers containing thousands of transparent, thumb-sized plastic tubes. Each is filled with a clear, yellowish fluid – ...