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Her silence over her controversial departure from BC Women’s Hospital has been deafening.
Alas, it didn’t last forever as Dr. Alison Bested, the former medical director of the Complex Chronic Disease Program has sent me a statement she calls a “public response;” it is posted below.
Her stipulation is that I publish it in its entirety; I have acquiesced to this request.
Carios kelleyi (Colley & Kohls 1941), a tick associated with bats and bat habitats, has been reported to feed on humans, but there is little published data regarding the presence of vector-borne pathogens in these ticks.
NEW GLASGOW – Pictou County’s three MLAs and several county councilors got educated about Lyme disease from those suffering from the disease. They also received a long list of items the delegation wants instituted into Nova Scotia’s detection and treatment of the disease during a meeting on Monday at Justice Minister Ross Landry’s Pictou Centre…
The Lyme Sucks Challenge: 1. Cut a lime in half (share it with a friend, or your favorite kid) and take a video of you sucking the lime dry 2. In your video, nominate 3 friends to take the Lyme Sucks Challenge & tag them when you post your video 3. Post your video…
Abstract Lyme disease, caused by the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto, is an emerging zoonotic disease in Canada and is vectored by the blacklegged tick,Ixodes scapularis. Here we used Bayesian analyses of sequence types (STs), determined by multilocus sequence typing (MLST), to investigate the phylogeography of B. burgdorferi populations in southern Canada and the United…
By: Jackie Hong Staff Reporter, Published on Tue May 19 2015 Some sure signs that summer is coming in Toronto: warmer temperatures, longer days, more sun, and ticks being tested for Lyme disease. Toronto Public Health confirmed Tuesday that blacklegged ticks found on Algonquin Island, a part of the Toronto Islands, late Friday are being…
This in-depth article by Cox and Levesque gives context to many of the systemic barriers that Canadian Lyme patients encounter, and highlights the important role that patient organizations play in addressing those barriers.
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This article just confirms my constant suspicions; my sister-in-law has Lyme. she has had it for over FIFTEEN years.
No government agency wishes to admit anything. They are Gods and we are the sheep as long as we let it be so. Want some changes. Take alternative routes, see different practitoners, support the doctors who are trying to do something about the ever-increasing chronic diseases that are NOT disappearing anytime soon.
As for Premier Photo Op, Christy Clark; don’t get started!