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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…
[CanLyme Note: This for profit money drive takes medical research away from cure to ‘a drug for every symptom’. In Canada, relative to Lyme disease, the private Association of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Disease of Canada (AMMI), is an extension of the ‘do not cure’ medical money machine. They offer opinion and poorly designed research to…
LYME SCI: Re-cap of New York’s Lyme disease hearing On August 29, the New York State Senate’s Task Force on Lyme and Tick-borne Diseases held a public hearing, with participation from many stakeholders. Public health officials, scientists, patients, and doctors from IDSA and ILADS all addressed the committee hearing, which was streamed live to a…
Natural selection favours those with a greater capacity to generate genetic variation. Hannah Hoag 14 November 2013 Borrelia burgdorferi, the bacterium that causes Lyme disease, is skilled at evading the immune responses of its animal hosts. STEM JEMS/SPL Some gamblers succeed by spiriting cards up their sleeves, giving them a wider range of hands to play….
[Canlyme note : The notion or suggestion that Borrelia miyamotoi is a new disease, is at this point in time proposterous. It is Lyme Disease. This is as silly as saying that each winter season there is a new disease called the flu. The flu is the flu, caused by many strains. Lyme Disease is a disease…
Abstract Human Granulocytic Anaplasmosis (HGA) is an infection caused by the intracellular bacterium Anaplasma phagocytophilum. As a tick-borne disease, the public health impact of HGA continues to increase with range expansion of the disease vector. The clinical presentation of HGA is often a non-specific febrile illness. The presence of leukopenia, thrombocytopenia, and mild hepatic injury are frequently noted…
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Another term for this might be that PHAC/ Health Canada/ CIHR are ‘Captured Organizations’ that will do the bidding of the IDSA and are anticompetitive in a business sense in that they will exclude the views of all others that don’t agree with their dogma.