New podcast: Brain retraining with Dr. Patrick Porter

“Fasten your seatbelts! In this podcast, Dr. Patrick Porter takes us on a journey into our brains, and shares with... View Article

CMAJ: Lyme disease in a neonate complicated by the Jarisch–Herxheimer reaction

“A 21-day-old girl presented to the emergency department of an Ontario children’s hospital in early summer with a 1-day history... View Article

A New Look at Chronic Lyme

By Pamela Weintraub “Many physicians who treat tick-borne diseases now combine conventional medicine with gentler integrative strategies — and more... View Article

CTV News: 14.5% of world population has or had Lyme disease: analysis

A recent analysis estimates more than one-tenth of the world’s population likely has or at some point had tick-borne Lyme disease. Research... View Article

B.C. Canada: Five things to know about Lyme disease and ticks in B.C.

[CanLyme Note: 14 percent of the world population represents 1.09 billion people infected with Lyme disease yet the Canadian government and... View Article

Don’t throw away that deer tick. Researchers at Mount Allison want to study it

CBC News: June 12, 2022 Study may help reduce the risk of humans contracting Lyme disease When most Maritimers find... View Article

Nova Scotia: Lyme disease advocacy group pushes for awareness, education, new clinic

[CanLyme Note: Sadly this is the case for most Canadians with Lyme disease who do not present with the over-emphasized ‘bulls... View Article

Experts expect bad year for ticks as disease-carrying bugs expand range in Canada

Lyndsay Armstrong, The Canadian Press HALIFAX — The prevalence of ticks that can carry Lyme disease is expected to be... View Article

Living with Lyme: Tiny Terror the Truth About Ticks

May 25, 2022 Good Documentary by a News Reporter that has Been Through it Herself Watch full video

Global TV News: Nova Scotia has the highest tick-to-human ratio in the country: biology professor

By Alexa MacLean, Global News May 17th, 2022 A biology professor who studies ticks for a living says Nova Scotians should expect... View Article

Pioneering Lyme pediatrician Charles Ray Jones, who treated successfully many Canadian children with Lyme disease who were abandoned by Canadian healthcare dies at age 93

“Dr. Charles Ray Jones, a trailblazing pediatric Lyme specialist who has treated more than 15,000 children from around the world... View Article

CTV News Atlantic: Mother struggles to get adequate help within the Canadian health care system for her young daughter who has Lyme.

Sadly this lack of help for adequate Lyme disease treatment is a Canada-wide problem due in large part to the... View Article

UoGuelph’s G Magnotta Lyme Disease Research Lab receives $1.2M for research

May, 2022 “With more ticks and tick bites occurring in Canada year after year, better diagnosis of Lyme disease is... View Article

The Platelet Fraction is a Novel Reservoir to Detect Lyme Borrelia in Blood

Abstract Serological diagnosis of Lyme disease suffers from considerable limitations. Yet, the technique cannot currently be replaced by direct detection... View Article

Capture Sequencing Enables Sensitive Detection of Tick-Borne Agents in Human Blood

March 7, 2022 Abstract Assay sensitivity can be a limiting factor in the use of PCR as a tool for... View Article

Estimating the Frequency of Lyme Disease Diagnoses, United States, 2010–2018

Abstract By using commercial insurance claims data, we estimated that Lyme disease was diagnosed and treated in ≈476,000 patients in... View Article

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