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Lyme disease tick test: Home test kit seeks to limit spread

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But soon you’ll be able to run a 15-minute tick test in your living room. It’s called LymeAlert , and it’s due to go on sale in August, priced at $40 per test. Company founder Erin Dawicki , a pediatric orthopedic physician assistant, came up with the concept while working toward an MBA from the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “I went to MIT because I was getting so angry at the US healthcare system,” Dawicki said, “because it forces me to treat people differently based on their insurance status and that’s their socioeconomic status. And frankly, that goes against my ethical framework.” She figured that an MIT degree would help her find technological solutions to even out health care disparities. “I thought I was going to work on health care reform at the federal level,” Dawicki said. “Clearly, the universe had other plans. Instead, she was “dragged kicking and screaming” into a course on health care entrepreneurship.…

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