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VANCOUVER — The Globe and Mail Published Sunday, Jul. 07 2013, 10:00 PM EDT
As a child, Gwen Barlee learned the value of digging deeper, but it was not until she grew up and began to investigate government that her perseverance really paid off.
Ms. Barlee, policy director of the Wilderness Committee, has carved out a reputation over the past decade for her tenacious use of Freedom of Information applications.
“It is all in your head”. An assessment that is all too familiar to many patients with little understood emergent diseases such as ME, PANS or Lyme. Together with the rise of complex chronic illnesses caused by stealth pathogens, we witness a rise of the invention of so-called ‘somatic disorders’. This is of concern to both patients,…
[CanLyme Note: Here we are in 2019 and doctors are still telling patients not to worry about a tick attachment. Ticks are nature’s dirty little needle and they carry much more than just Lyme disease. Some of these other diseases can be transmitted shortly after attachment. Watching and waiting only allows disease to spread making treatment…
Posted on January 16, 2014 By Bob Goodwin, an investor and medical device entrepreneur who lives in Mercer Island, Washington A recent article in Medscape is titled New Lyme Culture Test Failed CDC Analysis. At first I took the article and paper at face value, and tried to dig into the errors of a chronic-Lyme…
Thursday, Dec 18, 2014 06:00 am By: Lindsay Seewalt Last May, the Eagle ran a story on the controversies surrounding Lyme disease and diagnosis and Chronic Lyme Disease (CLD) — the disease caused by infected ticks, largely spread by migratory birds, which is said to turn into CLD when overlooked and misdiagnosed. The story…
[CanLyme note: The researchers acknowledge in their paper that their findings are limited to doxycycline, alone, at their prescribed dosages. The paper adds to the long list of articles that substantiate chronic persistent Lyme Disease beyond short term antibiotics and continued benefit while antibiotics are present.] John R. Caskey, Monica E. Embers ABSTRACT Doxycycline is a…
BY AMY SMART, TIMES COLONIST FEBRUARY 9, 2014 4:00 PM A Vancouver Island hawk is the first raptor to join the list of species believed to spread Lyme disease. Research scientist John Scott said the Cooper’s hawk was found with 22 ticks on it, four of which were infected with the bacteria that causes Lyme disease….
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I have a very dear friend who finally was diagnosed with Lyme. Its been a long journey until now. I was wondering if you can or put us in touch with somebody to talk to in order to soften the blow by giving us some knowledge on the disease. My friend would be appreciative, Thanks John 604-531-0344
Have your friend call CanLyme at 250-768-0978