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Swedish MD suspended over Lyme disease care; patients bereft
March 4, 2017 10:53 pm 3 Comments[CanLyme Note: Canada has suspended almost 100% of doctors who diagnose and treat Lyme disease based appropriately by all standards... View Article
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Doctors Who Treat Chronic and Rare Illnesses: Quacks or Heroes?
March 3, 2017 9:06 pm Comments Off on Doctors Who Treat Chronic and Rare Illnesses: Quacks or Heroes?March 1, 2017 David Michael Conner The Huffington Post “Many readers of my writing know that I have spent the... View Article
Triathlete Kirsten Sweetland, sidelined by health, calls it a career
March 3, 2017 2:29 pm Comments Off on Triathlete Kirsten Sweetland, sidelined by health, calls it a careerCleve Dheensaw, Times Colonist, March 2nd Triathlete Kirsten Sweetland of Victoria, a former teen prodigy who overcame career-threatening injuries to... View Article
New Lyme disease petition urges action plan rewrite
March 2, 2017 6:33 pm Comments Off on New Lyme disease petition urges action plan rewriteRichmond Hill Liberal – Kim Zarzour, March 1st, 2017 A new petition asking the Canadian government for a better action... View Article
New York Times: More Than 80 Percent of Patient Groups Accept Drug Industry Funds, Study Shows
March 2, 2017 5:40 pm 1 Comment[CanLyme Note: We have been approached by various pharma industry to work with them but we have steadfastly refused in order... View Article
VOCAL – Voices Of Canadians Against Lyme – Teens, Listen to a song created to bring attention to the dire situation of Lyme in Canada
March 1, 2017 12:31 pm Comments Off on VOCAL – Voices Of Canadians Against Lyme – Teens, Listen to a song created to bring attention to the dire situation of Lyme in CanadaLISTEN TO SONG BELOW: Children in Canada are suffering from Chronic Lyme Disease, please help them out and sign the... View Article
Identification of Novel Zoonotic Activity of Bartonella spp
February 28, 2017 7:23 pm Comments Off on Identification of Novel Zoonotic Activity of Bartonella sppEmerg Infect Dis. 2016 Mar;22(3):457-62. doi: 10.3201/eid2203.150269 Abstract Certain Bartonella species are known to cause afebrile bacteremia in humans and... View Article
Comparison of bacterial 16S rRNA variable regions for microbiomesurveys of ticks
February 28, 2017 11:20 am Comments Off on Comparison of bacterial 16S rRNA variable regions for microbiomesurveys of tickshttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ttbdis.2017.02.002 Abstract Ticks vector diverse pathogenic bacteria that are important to identify in public health and veterinary contexts. Technological... View Article
DON’T COUNT ON A RELAPSING FEVER TO DIAGNOSE BORRELIA MIYAMOTOI
February 27, 2017 1:23 pm Comments Off on DON’T COUNT ON A RELAPSING FEVER TO DIAGNOSE BORRELIA MIYAMOTOIYou might assume a patient infected with Borrelia miyamotoi, a relapsing fever spirochete, to present with a relapsing fever. However,... View Article
Tick-borne Lyme disease exploding into Michigan; human cases up 5-fold
February 24, 2017 9:23 pm Comments Off on Tick-borne Lyme disease exploding into Michigan; human cases up 5-foldFeb. 23, 2017 Keith Matheny, Detroit Free Press They’re already back. All it took was an unusual February warm spell... View Article
Anti-science old guard taking last dying breaths of continuing to misinform physicians using tax payer dollars
February 23, 2017 9:32 pm 1 CommentHere is their opinion article title, amazing in 2017 how poorly they reference their evidence… “False and Misleading Information about... View Article
Lyme sufferers devastated by federal government’s action plan
February 22, 2017 10:41 pm 1 CommentRichmond Hill Liberal, February 22, 2017 When Shari Allen first went public with her battle with Lyme disease, she was very... View Article
Detection of Lyme Disease Bacterium, Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato, in Blacklegged Ticks Collected in the Grand River Valley, Ontario, Canada
February 17, 2017 6:46 pm 1 CommentScott et al. Received: 2016.09.29; Accepted: 2016.12.28; Published: 2017.02.08 Abstract We document the presence of blacklegged ticks, Ixodes scapularis, in... View Article
Global Network on Institutional Discrimination: Lyme disease patients denied care and insurance coverage because of missing diagnostic codes
February 8, 2017 11:47 am Comments Off on Global Network on Institutional Discrimination: Lyme disease patients denied care and insurance coverage because of missing diagnostic codesNews provided by Global Network on Institutional Discrimination Feb 08, 2017, 10:04 ET VERO BEACH, Fla., Feb. 8, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/... View Article
Draft of report to parliament regarding Bill 442 now online and open to public input.
February 7, 2017 9:18 pm 10 CommentsFebruary 7th, 2017 As per the requirements of Bill 442, An Act respecting a Federal Framework on Lyme Disease Health Canada... View Article
A technology backed by Bill Gates may revolutionize diagnostics for Lyme disease
February 7, 2017 11:48 am 1 CommentDiana Pryor, CNBC news associate February 7th, 2017 While the medical and health community is putting a spotlight on diseases... View Article