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United States : Lyme Disease Association Offers Lyme Conference Scholarships for Medical Students
ByCanLyme Team September 15, 2015April 21, 2023
WALL, N.J., Sept. 15, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — The Lyme Disease Association, Inc. (LDA) announces availability of scholarships for its annual conference, Lyme & Other Tick-Borne Diseases: Science Bridging the Gap, Warwick, Rhode Island, November 14-15. Jointly provided by Columbia University, it is designed for doctors and researchers who can receive CMEs for attendance. Registration is also…
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For Physicians | Lyme Controversy | Lyme in Ontario | Medical Publications | Miscellaneous | Voices on Lyme
Canada: President’s Newsbrief – Ontario College of Family Physicians
ByCanLyme Team September 15, 2015April 21, 2023
[CanLyme Note: CanLyme is pleased to see the Ontario of College of Family Physicians is raising awareness about Lyme disease and that they recognize the difficulties of both diagnostics and treatment. There remains considerable work to do to build an infrastructure for both physicians and patients so that this rapidly expanding disease can be appropriately…
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Government | International News | Lyme Controversy | Miscellaneous | Voices on Lyme
United Kingdom: Phil Wilson MP: Spreading the word about Lyme [now a pandemic globally]
ByCanLyme Team September 15, 2015April 21, 2023
Tuesday – 15 September 2015 AS an MP, I am continuously learning. Every week constituents come to me with a range of problems, some of which I am know about, others, however, are completely new to me. Recently, a constituent came to me about her daughter who suffered from Lyme disease. I will be honest:…
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Miscellaneous | Voices on Lyme
Consumer Reports: Tick danger in autumn (also effective and safe tick repellents)
ByCanLyme Team September 15, 2015April 21, 2023
Sept 13th, 2015 CONSUMER REPORTS – You may think your risk of getting Lyme disease ends when the weather starts to cool, but by fall, adult ticks have had more time to become infected with disease-causing bacteria. In some areas, up to 50 percent of ticks can be infected with diseases such as Lyme, compared…
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Ontario Lyme Alliance responds to article in the Canadian Medical Association Journal that missed the mark.
ByCanLyme Team September 15, 2015April 21, 2023
Re: Lyme disease: How reliable are serologic results? see also https://canlyme.com/?p=7245 Debra L. Fraleigh, Co-founder Ontario Lyme Alliance A thorough examination of the full text of the Fallon study (1), referenced by Gregson et al, demonstrates that for thirty-seven Lyme patients (all of whom met historical clinical AND laboratory criteria for LD) archived sera from fewer…
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For Physicians | International News | Lyme Controversy | Lyme in Newfoundland | Miscellaneous | Voices on Lyme
N.L. woman who beat Lyme disease now researching illness in U.S.
ByCanLyme Team September 13, 2015April 21, 2023
Krista Hewlett forced to quit medical school due to condition A Newfoundland woman who battled Lyme disease for four years is now on the cutting edge of researching the condition in the United States. Krista Hewlett is currently a research associate at a clinic in Connecticut doing integrated medical treatment of Lyme disease. But…
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For Physicians | International News | Lyme Controversy | Medical Publications | Research | Voices on Lyme
Forbes: Lyme Deaths From Heart Inflammation Likely Worse Than We Thought
ByCanLyme Team September 7, 2015April 21, 2023
September 4th, 2015 Lyme disease and other tick-borne infections are skyrocketing. In western Pennsylvania, where I work, Lyme increased 25% just between 2013 and 2014, with Butler County having 412 cases and Allegheny County chalking up a record 822 cases last year. And where I vacation, in Maine, the rate of Lyme in 2014 was…
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Tertiary Treponematosis – Lyme Disease, Syphilis, gum disease
ByCanLyme Team September 3, 2015April 21, 2023
Herbert B. Allen*, Maria Hannaway and Suresh Joshi Journal of Clinical & Experimental Dermatology Research Abstract With recent findings in arthritis and dementia, it has become apparent that Lyme treponemes and oral treponemes have tertiary clinical findings similar to tertiary syphilis. The primary findings are in the skin or mucous membranes with syphilis demonstrating a…
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Global TV – Lyme disease tests may not be accurate for some Canadians – Patients worried
ByCanLyme Team September 3, 2015April 21, 2023
[CanLyme Note: The Association of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Canada (AMMI) failed to point out that there is no ‘gold standard serology’ for Lyme disease. The only standard is American ‘surveillance criteria’ that were never intended for establishing whether or not to treat clinical cases of Lyme disease. The US surveillance criteria were established in…
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Lyme Controversy | Miscellaneous | Voices on Lyme
Toronto: Drawings depict horrors of Lyme disease, artist calls for better testing and treatment
ByCanLyme Team September 3, 2015April 21, 2023
written by Bruce Wark Montreal artist Donna Jacobs is hoping her charcoal drawings soon to be on display at The Cabbagetown Arts Festival in Toronto, previously on gallery exhibit at Parrsboro’s Main & Station, July 15th-28th, will raise awareness about the horrors of Lyme disease as well as the urgent need for improved diagnosis…
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Lyme Controversy | Miscellaneous | Research
Ticks are killed in clothes dryer in only 5 minutes new research suggests
ByCanLyme Team September 2, 2015April 21, 2023
Braintree HS graduate continues groundbreaking ticks research By Robert Aicardi baicardi [at] wickedlocal [dot] com Posted Aug. 31, 2015 at 12:30 PM Until now, little research has been conducted about how to cleanse dangerous ticks from clothing by washing or drying it. The federal Centers for Disease Control (CDC) office in Fort Collins, Colorado…
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Disease Risk & Landscape Attributes of Tick-Borne Borrelia Pathogens in the San Francisco Bay Area, California
ByCanLyme Team August 28, 2015April 21, 2023
Published: August 19, 2015 – DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0134812 Abstract Habitat heterogeneity influences pathogen ecology by affecting vector abundance and the reservoir host communities. We investigated spatial patterns of disease risk for two human pathogens in the Borrelia genus–B. burgdorferi and B. miyamotoi–that are transmitted by the western black-legged tick, Ixodes pacificus. We collected ticks (349 nymphs,…
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Nature.com : Scientists have no shortage of ideas about how to stop tick-borne illnesses. What is holding them back?
ByCanLyme Team August 27, 2015April 21, 2023
Aug. 25th, 2015 Melinda Wenner Moyer The growing global battle against blood-sucking ticks On a balmy day in late June, Scott Williams waits for a white-footed mouse (Peromyscus leucopus) to fall asleep. Williams, a wildlife biologist with the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station in New Haven, has just transferred the animal from a trap to…
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Lyme in Ontario | Miscellaneous | Research
More infected ticks found in Sudbury area
ByCanLyme Team August 26, 2015April 21, 2023
By Jim Moodie, The Sudbury Star, August 26th, 2015 The city is experiencing a minor rash of Lyme-carrying ticks, any one of which could cause a major rash to form on the skin of an infected person. On Tuesday, the Sudbury and District Health Unit reported two blacklegged ticks had tested positive for the Lyme disease…
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For Physicians | International News | Medical Publications | Poor Research | Research
Return on Investment Slipping in Biomedical Research
ByCanLyme Team August 24, 2015April 21, 2023
[CanLyme note: Medical research should be of the highest standard of all research, but in many cases the opposite is true. A good example is the Infectious Disease Society of America and their published material. Much of it is no more than opinion, not reproducible, and certainly not worthy of publication yet they get broad coverage…
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News and updates

One year later: How the landmark NASEM report on chronic Lyme is – and isn’t – changing minds

Germs spread by ticks and cats found in suicidal youth

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

United States : Lyme Disease Association Offers Lyme Conference Scholarships for Medical Students

Canada: President’s Newsbrief – Ontario College of Family Physicians

United Kingdom: Phil Wilson MP: Spreading the word about Lyme [now a pandemic globally]

Consumer Reports: Tick danger in autumn (also effective and safe tick repellents)

Ontario Lyme Alliance responds to article in the Canadian Medical Association Journal that missed the mark.

N.L. woman who beat Lyme disease now researching illness in U.S.

Forbes: Lyme Deaths From Heart Inflammation Likely Worse Than We Thought

Tertiary Treponematosis – Lyme Disease, Syphilis, gum disease

Global TV – Lyme disease tests may not be accurate for some Canadians – Patients worried

Toronto: Drawings depict horrors of Lyme disease, artist calls for better testing and treatment

Ticks are killed in clothes dryer in only 5 minutes new research suggests

Disease Risk & Landscape Attributes of Tick-Borne Borrelia Pathogens in the San Francisco Bay Area, California

Nature.com : Scientists have no shortage of ideas about how to stop tick-borne illnesses. What is holding them back?

More infected ticks found in Sudbury area

Return on Investment Slipping in Biomedical Research

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