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Lyme Disease: Beyond Erythema Migrans
ByCanLyme Team May 2, 2016April 21, 2023
Feb, 2016 Herbert B. Allen, et al Journal of Clinical & Experimental Dermatology Research Abstract Background: With the recent discoveries of Borrelia burgdorferi and other spirochetes in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients and with a recent analysis showing the very same pathology in both syphilitic and Alzheimer’s dementia it seems both rational and urgent to consider…
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For Physicians | Lyme Controversy | Lyme in Saskatchewan | Voices on Lyme
Saskatchewan’s invisible struggle with Lyme disease
ByCanLyme Team April 26, 2016April 21, 2023
Nov, 2015 By Lisa Schick When it comes to Lyme disease in Saskatchewan, those who suffer from it appear to be invisible when it comes to cases reported to the public. Those who do have it live in anguish, like one man who was in so much pain he couldn’t get out of bed, or…
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Miscellaneous
California is where BC ticks come from: Tick-Borne Diseases in California – It’s Not Just Lyme and It’s Not Just Deer Ticks!
ByCanLyme Team April 22, 2016April 21, 2023
[canLyme Note: Ignore the spelling errors in the below, as it is an unedited article. This is an important summation because in the province of British Columbia and perhaps parts of Alberta, the migratory birds are delivering California ticks each and every season. Precious little information is published in Canada on the state of tick…
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For Physicians | Lyme Controversy | Lyme in Ontario | Research | Voices on Lyme
CBC News, Canada: Lyme disease response requires collaboration in Canada, researcher says
ByCanLyme Team April 22, 2016April 21, 2023
By Laurie Fagan, April 22, 2016 A Queen’s university researcher says Canadian Lyme disease experts need to work more collaboratively to treat the growing number of people who contract the debilitating tick-borne illness. Steven Liss, the vice principal of research at Queen’s University, is proposing a Canadian research network for Lyme disease that would improve…
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For Physicians | Lyme Controversy | Lyme in Ontario | Miscellaneous | Voices on Lyme
CTV News Toronto, Canada: Within four years 80% of population will be living with Lyme disease carrying ticks
ByCanLyme Team April 22, 2016April 21, 2023
April 22, 2016 CTV reporter Pauline Chan warns the public to beware as tick season is upon us. She also tackles some of the myths about Lyme disease that have been propagated by medical authorities. Watch TV clip
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For Physicians | Lyme in Ontario | Medical Publications | Research
Hamilton-Wentworth area of Ontario found to have 41% of blacklegged ticks infected with Lyme disease causing bacteria
ByCanLyme Team April 16, 2016April 21, 2023
Prevalence of the Lyme Disease Spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi, in Blacklegged Ticks, Ixodes scapularis at Hamilton-Wentworth, Ontario John D. Scott, et al. April 2016 …
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For Physicians | International News | Lyme Controversy | Medical Publications | Miscellaneous | Poor Research | Research
New Lyme Disease Study Reveals Strong Reporting Bias
ByCanLyme Team April 11, 2016April 21, 2023
David Michael Conner Huffington Post On March 31, the New England Journal of Medicine published a study that concludes, “In patients with persistent symptoms attributed to Lyme disease, longer-term antibiotic treatment did not have additional beneficial effects on health-related quality of life beyond those with shorter-term treatment.” Read full article
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For Physicians | International News | Lyme Controversy | Miscellaneous | Poor Research | Voices on Lyme
Physicians and patients weigh in on latest poorly designed study that raises the question, “Why?”, and, “Who is driving this spin?”
ByCanLyme Team April 3, 2016April 21, 2023
Randomized Trial of Longer-Term Therapy for Symptoms Attributed to Lyme Disease Comment “Persister research needs to account for morphological variability of Lyme The patient population studied was already a group that had shown persistence of disease. These would be “treatment failures” and more difficult cases. Even in this difficult population every group who received 2…
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For Physicians | International News | Lyme Controversy | Medical Publications | Poor Research | Voices on Lyme
Chronic Lyme European PLEASE Trial–You know it’s spin when treatment “success” is called “failure”?
ByCanLyme Team April 1, 2016April 21, 2023
March 30th, 2016 Today a widely anticipated clinical trial on chronic Lyme disease from Europe called PLEASE was published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM). The press has given the trial a twenty trumpet salute with a MedPage headline reading “Long-Term Antibiotics Fail Again in Lyme Disease–Focus on Lyme and antibiotics for persistent…
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For Physicians | Government reports & letters | International News | Lyme Controversy | Miscellaneous | Voices on Lyme
Boston, Massachusetts: Response to Boston Globe editorial against the Lyme bill
ByCanLyme Team April 1, 2016April 21, 2023
March 29th, 2016 The Massachusetts Lyme Legislative Task Force responds to a recent editorial from the Boston Globe, which opposed legislation to require insurance coverage for treatment of Lyme disease. Dear Editors of the Boston Globe: We were disappointed by your March 28 editorial criticizing the Lyme disease bill (H901/S502, An Act Relative to Lyme Disease Treatment Coverage[i]. Your arguments…
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Co-infections | For Physicians | Lyme Controversy | Lyme in Alberta | Miscellaneous | Research
Edmonton, Alberta: You’ll be seeing more ticks this spring
ByCanLyme Team March 29, 2016April 21, 2023
March 28th, 2016 CTV Alberta Primetime Canadian Lyme Disease Foundation director and PhD candidate Janet Sperling is interviewed by CTV’s Alberta Primetime Watch TV interview
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Researchers investigate four promising new treatments for Lyme disease
ByCanLyme Team March 29, 2016April 21, 2023
March 29, 2016 Thea Singer … “I find it amazing that when you show up at the doctor’s office you are not told that there is a 10 to 20 percent chance that your life as you know it has ended,” says Lewis. “Nobody seems to be focusing on the next step: How to prevent the…
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International News | Lyme Controversy | Miscellaneous | Voices on Lyme
HOW POPE FRANCIS HELPED A YOUNG GIRL FROM BROOKLYN BATTLING LYME DISEASE
ByCanLyme Team March 28, 2016April 21, 2023
Jim Dolan Monday, March 28, 2016 11:39AM BATH BEACH, Brooklyn (WABC) — For Julia Bruzzese, every day is a gift that she and her parents think is delivered by Pope Francis. Julia was blessed by the pope during the darkest days of her illness. Just 12 years old, she would lie in bed, and wonder…
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Miscellaneous
Halifax, NS, Canada: We must understand risk of ticks & Lyme Disease
ByCanLyme Team March 25, 2016April 21, 2023
By Brenda Sterling-Goodwin March 24th, 2016, Chronicle Herald newspaper Halifax, NS, Canada As migrating birds return this spring, they will be spreading millions of ticks across Canada. Those ticks are here to stay and we must learn to work with the growing problem of their impact on pets and humans. The Canadian Veterinary Medical Association,…
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For Physicians | International News | Lyme Controversy | Medical Publications | Voices on Lyme
Massachusetts State House: An Act Relative to Lyme Disease Treatment Coverage.
ByCanLyme Team March 23, 2016April 21, 2023
Published on Nov 23, 2015 Hearing for bill H. 901 and S. 502, An Act Relative to Lyme Disease Treatment Coverage. Date: Tuesday, October 20 at 11:00 am in the Gardner Auditorium at the Massachusetts State House Access full video
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News and updates

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Scholarship opportunity for undergraduates with a project focused on Lyme disease or other tick-borne diseases

Living with persistent illness and uncertainty: Patient narratives on Lyme disease in Nova Scotia, Canada

Lyme disease is becoming one of Canada’s defining climate-health challenges

Announcing the second annual Canadian Tick-Borne Disease Conference

Feeling sick after eating that steak dinner? You could have a rare but potentially severe tick-borne allergy

Elliot Jacobson: Downstream Secondary Illness in Lyme Disease

Lyme Disease: Beyond Erythema Migrans

Saskatchewan’s invisible struggle with Lyme disease

California is where BC ticks come from: Tick-Borne Diseases in California – It’s Not Just Lyme and It’s Not Just Deer Ticks!

CBC News, Canada: Lyme disease response requires collaboration in Canada, researcher says

CTV News Toronto, Canada: Within four years 80% of population will be living with Lyme disease carrying ticks

Hamilton-Wentworth area of Ontario found to have 41% of blacklegged ticks infected with Lyme disease causing bacteria

New Lyme Disease Study Reveals Strong Reporting Bias

Physicians and patients weigh in on latest poorly designed study that raises the question, “Why?”, and, “Who is driving this spin?”

Chronic Lyme European PLEASE Trial–You know it’s spin when treatment “success” is called “failure”?

Boston, Massachusetts: Response to Boston Globe editorial against the Lyme bill

Edmonton, Alberta: You’ll be seeing more ticks this spring

Researchers investigate four promising new treatments for Lyme disease

HOW POPE FRANCIS HELPED A YOUNG GIRL FROM BROOKLYN BATTLING LYME DISEASE

Halifax, NS, Canada: We must understand risk of ticks & Lyme Disease

Massachusetts State House: An Act Relative to Lyme Disease Treatment Coverage.

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