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VIDEO – CBC Friends raise money to help treat woman with Lyme disease
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Friends of Carolyn MacIntyre, a Perth-area woman with Lyme disease, are raising money to pay for her ongoing care and possible treatment in the U.S. MacIntyre has been prescribed antibiotics, but she received only a few weeks of treatment because Lyme disease is not considered a chronic disease. Access video and text
New Hope for Sufferers of Chronic Disease [is questioned] – Global TV Vancouver
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For those within the Chronic Disease Syndrome/ME and fibromyalgia community there was some relief expressed in that finally their diagnosis is being legitimized. This will be one more step in helping with disability claims for conditions that have all too often been labelled as somatoform or, all in the head. The clinic came about as…
Global TV: Tick threat in Winnipeg on the rise
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By Lauren McNabb Senior Reporter/Anchor Global News – May 1st, 2015 WINNIPEG – At this time of year they could be as small as a poppy seed, but no matter the size, a black-legged tick can carry a potentially nasty bite. May is Lyme Disease awareness month and it is one of several tick-borne diseases doctors say an…
Long time Lyme disease patient advocate warns Nova Scotians about ticks and medical practices
[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…
Lyme disease controversies over diagnosis, treatment at Canada’s first complex, chronic disease program clinic
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By Pamela Fayerman Dr. Lucy Kinninmonth has been to about 20 different medical specialists in the past year, all of whom doubt she’s got chronic Lyme disease even though her symptoms, along with a blood test she had in the U.S., confirmed it, as far as she’s concerned. The Port Coquitlam veterinarian is now one of 650…
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Massachusetts, USA: Insurance Coverage for Lyme Treatment Becomes Law
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Alex Elvin, August 11, 2016 6:40 pm The state legislature has adopted a new bill requiring insurance companies to cover long-term antibiotic treatment of Lyme disease, despite considerable pushback from the medical and health insurance communities, and from Gov. Charlie Baker, who twice remanded the bill in the final weeks before the legislative session closed…