MEDIA and PUBLIC RELATIONS If you have questions, suggestions or ideas regarding media events or public relations opportunities, please contact: Candice Han, Director of Media and Public Relations Morgellons Research Foundation media@morgellons.org . LATE BREAKING NEWS! Louise Mandrell joins Board of Directors, Morgellons Research Foundation® (MRF) June 9, 2009 - (Nashville, TN) - Country Music entertainer Louise Mandrell has joined the Board of Directors of The Morgellons Research Foundation® (MRF). Louise, who has contributed time and resources to a wide range of charitable causes, has offered to support the MRF by raising awareness of Morgellons disease and its effects on afflicted individuals and their families. Read complete Press Release. NEWS MEDIA Click on the headings below to go the media section listing news stories about Morgellons disease. • Television News • Newspapers and Magazines • Radio Broadcasts Television News NOTE: On several of these online television news sites, a brief video commercial plays before the featured video begins. Back to top >>> ABC News – January 17, 2008 Video: Medical Mystery: Bugs of the Skin What could cause strange lesions to appear on the skin? CBS News – January 17, 2008 Video: Health Watch: Tracking a Mystery Illness Maggie Rodriguez talks to Dr. Michele Pearson with the CDC about the need to learn more about this disease. KTVU – Oakland/San Francisco, CA, Aug 2, 2007 Video and Transcript: CDC Requests Bay Area Morgellons Study KTNV ABC NEWS - Las Vegas, NV, July 26, 2007 Video Transcript: CDC Looking Into Morgellons Syndrome KTVU – Oakland/San Francisco, CA, May 26, 2006 Video: OAKLAND: Former A's Reliever Billy Koch And Wife Talk About Mystery Disease KHOU – Houston, TX, May 5, 2006 Video: Doctors refuse to treat controversial disease. WTEV – Jackonsville, FL, Feb 7, 2005 Video Transcript: Mystery Disease: Part 2 KPRC – Houston, TX, March 2, 2005 Video and Transcript: Doctors Debate Credibility Of Morgellons Disease Patients Say Growth Causes Them To Itch Uncontrollably. KVUE – Austin, TX, Nov 9, 2004 Video: Mysterious skin disease puzzles patients by Celine McArthur / Healthvue Reporter KTVU - San Francisco, CA, March 1, 2004 Video: Video Transcript: Segment 2: mysterious parasite striking bay area residents by John Fowler Back to top >>> Newspapers & Magazines Back to top >>> Newsday, January 28, 2008 New skin disorder drawing attention BY DELTHIA RICKS, delthia.ricks@newsday.com North County Times, January 26, 2008 U.S. orders study of bizarre Morgellons condition By: Mike Stobbe - Associated Press Los Angeles Times, January 19, 2008 CDC begins study of bizarre condition By Jia-rui Chong The Pittsburgh Post Gazette, January 17, 2008 CDC gives $545,000 to study mysterious skin condition A mother's battle against son's mystery ailment pays off. By David Templeton, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette The San Francisco Chronicle, January 17, 2008 Bay Area has first major U.S. study of Morgellons disease Erin Allday, Chronicle Staff Writer WebMd, January 17, 2008 Morgellons Disease Stumps Experts CDC Launches Investigation of Rare Skin Problem By Jeanie Lerche Davis WebMD Health NewsReviewed by Louise Chang, MD Reuters, January 16, 2008 Health officials probe unexplained skin ailment By Will Dunham The Daily Mail, UK, September 18, 2007 Is this a disease or an episode of the X Files? By Daniel Elkan Psychology Today Magazine, March 6, 2007 The Morgellons Mystery By: Elizabeth DeVita-Raeburn Time, Atlanta, GA, July 28, 2006 Health & Science - Itching for Answers to a Mystery Condition By Paige Bowers/Atlanta The Seattle Times, July 26, 2006 Is mystery illness real or illusion? By Howard Witt, Chicago Tribune Pittsburgh Post Gazette - Pittsburgh, PA, July 23, 2006 Mom fights for answers on what's wrong with her son By Chico Harlan, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette The Acorn - Agoura Hills, CA, July 20, 2006 Morgellons: Disease or delusion? By Navid Ezra Dallas Observer - Dallas, TX, July 20, 2006 text San Francisco Chronicle - San Francisco, CA, June 2, 2006 Nasty disease -- or is it delusion? Thousands claim to have skin ailment; many doctors skeptical Erin Allday, Chronicle Staff Writer Times Online - London, UK, May 19, 2006 All in the head? By Elaine Monaghan, Times Online special correspondent Popular Mechanics, June, 2005 Morgellons Disease Baffles Patients And Doctors Back to top >>> Radio Broadcasts Back to top >>> National Public Radio (NPR), January 24, 2008, 13 minutes Online Campaign Sparks Interest in New Disease National Public Radio (NPR), December 27, 2006, 7 minutes 'Morgellons Disease' Is Creepy. But Is It Real? A Closer Look with Michael Corbin, May 24, 2006 - Hour 1 A Closer Look with Michael Corbin, May 24, 2006 - Hour 2 A Closer Look with Michael Corbin, May 24, 2006 - Hour 2 Coast to Coast with George Noory, Feb 15, 2005 Coast to Coast with George Noory, Feb 21, 2005 Back to top >>> Links: CDC Timeline Case Definition of Morgellons Disease View our FAQs Page Site Map