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Hopkins physician Paul G. Auwaerter, MD, has told the Allentown Morning Call that Lyme patients invent ideas about what ails them. “When is a Johns Hopkins School of Medicine researcher no longer competent to conduct research and treat patients?” asks Cutler, who has been battling Lyme disease for more than nine years. “When he ceases…
The Lyme Disease Research Foundation is pleased to announce the April 2015 opening of The Lyme Disease Clinical Research Center in the Division of Rheumatology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. The Center was established with a major gift from the Lyme Disease Research Foundation and represents the culmination of years of extraordinary…
Staying informed can be your best . By Jane Doucet WITH THE WARM weather arriving, many Canadians will be spending time camping, hiking, and horseback riding. While it’s wonderful to watch Mother Nature spring to life, less desirable creatures are also stepping up their activity at this time of year. Read full article
April 27th, 2015 Tickborne diseases are a major public health problem around the world. Ticks carry and transmit a variety of microbes that cause disease. These illnesses, which include Lyme disease, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, and Tularemia, can cause a variety of symptoms, often serious and sometimes deadly. Now, just in time for spring and…
BY DAN FUMANO, THE PROVINCE APRIL 22, 2015 In 2013, a clinic heralded as the first of its kind in Canada opened in Vancouver with a mandate to diagnose and treat Lyme disease in B.C. It was a moment of great hope and optimism for many chronic Lyme sufferers in B.C. But two years later,…
[CanLyme note: Dr. Gerald Evans’ comments in the article linked below are a great example of why patients Canada-wide are so disgusted with Infectious Disease doctors. Lyme disease patients are doctors, lawyers, microbiologists, engineers, labourers, truckers, plumbers, house wives and husbands, and children. He paints us as being naive, incapable of making sound health care judgments…
On April 24th, 2015, the Canadian Lyme Disease Foundation’s founder, Jim Wilson, was proud to have his brother, John Wilson, and oldest daughter Candra Wilson make their challenges to others to take the Lyme Sucks Challenge in the effort to raise awareness of the disease, and increase funding for a very necessary and long overdue…
Because the patients are contested “They immediately may send the patient to test for all manner of serious immune and neurologic disease, not realizing that Lyme disease itself may cause profound immune and neurologic conditions if it is not treated at once.” Read full article
The Anemic and Thrombocytopenic Febrile Neonate Nickolas D. Surra, MD, John E. Jesus, MD Christiana Care Health Center, Newark, Delaware Published Online: April 18, 2015 Abstract Background Babesiosis is a tick-borne, protozoal disease seen primarily in the northeastern and northern Midwest portions of the United States. It is primarily transmitted through the bite of the…
St. CATHARINES, ON – APRIL 15, 2015 – At sunrise on May 11, 2015, Niagara natives, 22 year old Daniel Corso and his long time friend Tanner Cookson will begin their 8000 km bike ride across Canada to bring awareness to, and raise money for, Lyme disease. The ride begins in Victoria, BC at the…
Tuesday 21 April 2015 Grey squirrels are in the dock again – this time for harbouring a serious infection that can be spread to humans by ticks. The American immigrant rodents already have previous convictions for decimating native red squirrel populations and damaging woodland by stripping bark from trees. Grey squirrels host the bacteria responsible…
Arlington, VA – WEBWIRE – Tuesday, April 21, 2015 The Mayday Project–a volunteer organization comprised of those touched by Lyme disease–wants to know the answer to the question: How can certain members of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) review panel, those with entrenched intellectual conflicts of interest, be trusted to revise the guidelines…
In August of 2013, a 17-year-old boy died suddenly from cardiac arrest. Initially, health officials blamed the Powassan virus for his death. But a recent report in Cardiovascular Pathologist finds that Joseph Elone, from Poughkeepsie, died from Lyme carditis. It was not a rare virus but Lyme disease that claimed the young man’s life. Read…
[CanLyme Note: Many decades of research, prior to MS being too simply labeled an ‘autoimmune’ disease, showed convincingly that spirochetal (spirochaetal) bacteria, like Lyme disease bacteria, played a significant role in the disease process. Is all MS Lyme disease? Likely not, but much of it may be a misdiagnosed, untreated, mistreated Lyme disease or other spirochetal…
LYME AND MS HAVING THE SAME ETIOLOGY From: jwissmille [at] aol [dot] com (JWissmille) Newsgroups: sci.med.diseases.lyme Subject: MS or Lyme from the archives NNTP-Posting-Host: ladder07.news.aol.com X-Admin: news [at] aol [dot] com Date: 30 Jun 1999 19:44:26 GMT Organization: AOL https://www.aol.com Message-ID: <19990630154426 [dot] 23870 [dot] 00002412 [at] ng-fj1 [dot] aol [dot] com> Xref: news.gmd.de sci.med.diseases.lyme:50155…
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