Healthwise magazine – Ottawa – Lyme Disease
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Sarah explores the latest advances in Lyme disease treatment with Dr. Kim Lewis, a researcher, author, University Distinguished Professor and director of Antimicrobial Discovery Center at Northeastern University in Boston. He specializes in molecular science and is currently researching persister cells that lead to tolerance to antibiotics, uncultured bacteria of the environment and the microbiome…
BY SUE-ANN LEVY, TORONTO SUN May 26, 2015 TORONTO – I heard from Veronique Ayling first thing on the Sunday morning my story appeared about chronic Lyme disease victim Paige Spencer. Like the 20-year-old Spencer, the mother of three was left undiagnosed with Lyme disease and even refused the traditional treatment — doxycycline — by the Canadian…
[CanLyme note: This is the coming wave for better clinical diagnostics for Lyme borreliosis and other infections] By Maggie Fox NBC TV News Modern genetic sequencing helped doctors diagnose and cure a teen boy’s mysterious infection, offering a glimpse into hospital techniques of the future. A report in the New England Journal of Medicine describes…
Optic neuritis, giant cell arteritis and Lyme disease: a case presentation.
By Pamela Weintraub “Many physicians who treat tick-borne diseases now combine conventional medicine with gentler integrative strategies — and more long-term patients are getting well. In the summer of 1997, Jennifer Crystal discovered a red, splotchy rash on her arm. A 19-year-old counselor at a camp in Maine at the time, Crystal had grown up…
By Lynn Desjardins | english [at] rcinet [dot] caSunday 4 May, 2014 As Canada gets warmer more disease-carrying ticks are spreading Lyme disease and advocates say not enough is being done to help those who are stricken. People going undiagnosed It’s not clear how many Canadians have caught Lyme disease because current testing detects only…