Welcome to the Canadian Lyme Disease Foundation
The Canadian Lyme Disease Foundation (CanLyme) was created to promote a more complete and comprehensive understanding of Lyme disease and related illnesses through research, education and advocacy to help reduce misdiagnosis and improve treatments for Lyme disease.
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Recognizing symptoms and learning how to talk to your doctor are the first steps towards treatment.
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Understanding Lyme disease is the best way to prevent, diagnose and treat it.
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Get the facts on ticks and tick-borne diseases. There are many myths!
Recent dispatches
N.L. woman who beat Lyme disease now researching illness in U.S.
Krista Hewlett forced to quit medical school due to condition A Newfoundland woman who battled Lyme disease for…
Forbes: Lyme Deaths From Heart Inflammation Likely Worse Than We Thought
September 4th, 2015 Lyme disease and other tick-borne infections are skyrocketing. In western Pennsylvania, where I work, Lyme increased…
Tertiary Treponematosis – Lyme Disease, Syphilis, gum disease
Herbert B. Allen*, Maria Hannaway and Suresh Joshi Journal of Clinical & Experimental Dermatology Research Abstract With recent findings…
Global TV – Lyme disease tests may not be accurate for some Canadians – Patients worried
[CanLyme Note: The Association of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Canada (AMMI) failed to point out that there is no…
Toronto: Drawings depict horrors of Lyme disease, artist calls for better testing and treatment
written by Bruce Wark Montreal artist Donna Jacobs is hoping her charcoal drawings soon to be on display…
Ticks are killed in clothes dryer in only 5 minutes new research suggests
Braintree HS graduate continues groundbreaking ticks research By Robert Aicardi baicardi [at] wickedlocal [dot] com Posted Aug. 31,…
Where there are ticks, there’s often Lyme disease
Lyme disease is caused by an infection that is most often transmitted by ticks, but it can also be transmitted from mother to child during pregnancy.
Ticks can attach to your body without being seen or felt, and diagnosis can be difficult due to symptom presentation, testing protocols and other challenges.
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More news
Riot Grrrl Back From the Brink – Lyme Disease took her down for over 6 years
By MELENA RYZIK Published: September 1, 2013 in the New York Times Donating her file cabinet, full of old…
CanLyme director David Cubberley speaks to CBC radio on the failings of the tax payer funded BC clinic
CanLyme director, David Cubberley, speaks to CBC radio on the failings of the Vancouver based BC Complex Chronic Disease…
Victoria Times Colonist: Lyme disease clinic a ‘waste’ group says
BC’s new complex chronic disease program is a “complete waste of time” for Lyme disease patients, says the Canadian…
Canadian Lyme Disease Foundation withdraws endorsement of the Complex Chronic Disease Program at the BC Women’s Hospital.
Press release: August 28th, 2013 Canadian Lyme Disease Foundation withdraws endorsement of the Complex Chronic Disease Program at the…
The combined use of proton pump inhibitors and antibiotics as risk factors for Clostridium difficile infection
Healthcare Infection, 08/21/2013 Clinical Article Kassavin DS et al. – A review of the incidence of Clostridium. difficile infection (CDI)…
Medical abuse in Manitoba – a plea for sanity in a messed up system
This is a copy of a letter I was asked by Marie Hughes to write on her behalf. It…
Lyme Disease: Spreading across Canada – The Nature of Things with David Suzuki
“It’s official. A March 2012 study confirmed that the tick that spreads lyme disease has been infiltrating Canada for…
Lyme disease more common than previously thought [10 times more cases says US CDC putting number at 300,000 cases per year!]
ATLANTA August 19, 2013 (AP) By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer Lyme disease is about 10 times more…
The immune system cannot generate immunological memory during infection with the Lyme disease agent B. burgdorfer
R.A. Elsner, S.W. Barthold, N. Baumgarth https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1043466613003542 Graduate Group in Microbiology and the Center for Comparative Medicine, University of…