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LymeAlert

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Alderton, M. (2026, October 15). LymeAlert. TIME. https://time.com/collection/best-inventions/2026/lymealert/

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Erin Dawicki, a physician assistant in Boston and co-founder of LymeAlert, discusses the company’s new at-home test kit for Lyme disease. The device tests ticks found on humans or pets and provides results within 30 minutes. According to Dawicki, over 476,000 Americans contract Lyme annually, underscoring the need for early detection since untreated cases can lead to severe health issues including arthritis, fatigue, facial paralysis, and cardiac arrest.

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Story summary

LymeAlert, an at-home testing kit founded by Erin Dawicki in Boston, aims to help detect Lyme disease early. More than 476,000 Americans contract Lyme disease annually, and untreated cases can lead to severe health issues like arthritis, fatigue, facial paralysis, and cardiac arrest. The LymeAlert kit allows users to test a tick for the pathogen causing Lyme disease within just 30 minutes and provides results through an integrated app that maps rising case locations. Dawicki notes that many people are not tested due to their providers underestimating their risk of infection, emphasizing the importance of patients advocating for themselves with this new tool.

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TIME · 641 article(s) · 2 correction(s) detected

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2026-10-19

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Who wrote this

Matt Alderton

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The only article under this byline in the corpus.

Topics

Americans Boston LymeAlert

Subjects

Americans NORP · 1× Boston GPE · 1× Dawicki PERSON · 1× Erin Dawicki PERSON · 1×

Narrative

Early detection and treatment with antibiotics are crucial, notes Erin Dawicki, a physician assistant in Boston and co-founder and CEO of LymeAlert, the first at-home test for the tickborne pathogen that causes Lyme disease.

framing: assertive · carried by 1 article(s) · first seen 2026-10-19

2026-10-19 · TIME

LymeAlert · assertive framing

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More than 476,000 Americans contract Lyme disease every year. asserted

Americans → contract → disease

Untreated, it can cause arthritis, fatigue, facial paralysis, and even cardiac arrest. asserted

it → cause → arthritis

that → note → disease

The kit, which allows users to test a tick found on a person or pet, produces results in just 30 minutes and integrates with an app that maps where cases are rising. asserted

cases → allow → app

“It’s a story we hear over and over again from people who have been infected: their provider didn’t think they were at risk, so they didn’t test for it,” Dawicki says. asserted

Dawicki → ’ → it

“So we help patients advocate for themselves.” asserted

patients → help → themselves