[CanLyme Note: The Lyme disease disaster for Canadians is an excellent example of how the ‘self-regulating’ medical colleges and medical associations have woven themselves into the publicly funded health care system positioning themselves as the only experts, and policing any physicians who disagree with them, out of business. No outside scientific expertise is allowed no matter…
Tuesday, April 10, 2018 [CanLyme Note: The Canadian system via the Pubic Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) and the Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR) adopted the same corrupted, biased position of the US CDC. Now we need Canadian parliamentarians to do the right thing for the sick. Last year, Health Canada announced there would…
[CanLyme Note: This is not isolated to Ontario, it is Canada and world-wide. Many provinces and countries have given the right to medical colleges and associations to self-police. The process has been corrupted and abused for years with many doctors given far too light consequences while on the other hand they use self-policing to force…
Article on Lyme disease sparks calls for awareness campaign March 11, 2018 A UK SCIENTIST, whose daughter contracted Lyme disease in Bantry, says she would like to be part of an Irish awareness campaign on the tick-borne disease. Responding to reports of high rates of the disease in West Cork and South Kerry, detailed recently…
March 9th, 2018 The Canadian Lyme Consortium, representing a united and transparent relationship between patients, clinicians and researchers has issued an update detailing the situation with the Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR) granting process. Ethics and good science do not seem to be relevant at CIHR as Health Canada continues to fail Canadians. Read…
August 23, 2017 written by Huib In the USA an unprecedented anti-trust law suit of $57 million is being prepared against the CDC. They are accused of deliberately suppressing the use of an accurate DNA direct diagnostics for Lyme disease. You can read about the aim and potential impact of this lawsuit in this article. “In…
The Saskatchewan government says there have been three cases of Lyme disease in the province since 2008. Five Lyme patients beg to differ. Anika Kosteniuk was 13 years old when a tick bite changed her life. She was on vacation in Virginia, on the acreage of her great-aunt and uncle, when she found an…
June 8th, 2017 You can listen to the interesting testimony here… Dr. Njoo from the Public Health Agency of Canada believes patients are too stupid to be equal partners in setting guidelines on diagnostics and treatment. Only his buddies at AMMI, IDSA and the US CDC are qualified to have the final say… the same…
Watch presentations before the federal all party standing committee on health as they discuss what was purported to be a federal framework on Lyme disease by the Minister of Health… Watch now
May 30th, 2017 Global TV News The federal framework released by government embraces the status quo and cedes responsibility for Lyme research and management back to the same bureaucratic self appointed experts who have mismanaged the issue for decades. The patient and their experts are excluded from the process yet again. There are a relatively…
Lyme disease patient from Quebec and then, research scientist from University of Alberta draws into question testing and treatment in Canada. Why is Canada being forced to follow US guidelines when we have our own distinct genotypes that vary across the country? Listen here
May 21st, 2017 Tick season raises Lyme disease concerns With tick season underway, a Canadian woman shares her personal story of living with Lyme disease and the years of being misdiagnosed and misunderstood. Allison Vuchnich reports. Dr. Doug Sider, Public Health Ontario, says Lyme is under-reported at least 10 fold. Watch Here
[CanLyme Note: No disease in history has ever been so massaged and manipulated behind closed doors as Lyme disease (borreliosis) Is profit the motive? Keeping people sick and on pills for every symptom seems to be the approved Canadian policy while they refuse to transparently look at better tests that are available, and they refuse to…
Tell your physician (because they are told this cannot happen)… Lyme disease can be passed through the placenta to the fetus. This is acknowledged by the United States Center for Disease Control who state on their poster, “Untreated, Lyme disease can be dangerous to your unborn child.” Read poster
[CanLyme Note: Canada has suspended almost 100% of doctors who diagnose and treat Lyme disease based appropriately by all standards upon a clinical diagnosis, and patient response to treatment. The level of misinformation and anti-scientific standards endorsed and supported by the United States Center for Disease Control and those countries like Canada and Sweden who blindly…
February 7th, 2017 As per the requirements of Bill 442, An Act respecting a Federal Framework on Lyme Disease Health Canada held a conference on Lyme disease in May of 2016. It was a well balanced conference that revealed significant divergent opinions among experts on the most important issues to the affected Canadian… diagnosis and treatment. Without…
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