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

Hopkins Physician Says Lyme Disease Patients Create Conspiracy Theories About Their Illnesses

ByCanLyme TeamApr 29, 20151 min read

Hopkins physician Paul G. Auwaerter, MD, has told the Allentown Morning Call that Lyme patients invent ideas about what…

THE JOHNS HOPKINS LYME DISEASE CLINICAL RESEARCH CENTER OPENS

ByCanLyme TeamApr 28, 20152 min read

The Lyme Disease Research Foundation is pleased to announce the April 2015 opening of The Lyme Disease Clinical Research…

Costco Connection magazine: Beware the tick, ‘Targeting Lyme disease’

ByCanLyme TeamApr 27, 20151 min read

Staying informed can be your best . By Jane Doucet WITH THE WARM weather arriving, many Canadians will be…

Researchers Discover Never-Before-Seen Tickborne Disease

ByCanLyme TeamApr 27, 20151 min read

April 27th, 2015 Tickborne diseases are a major public health problem around the world. Ticks carry and transmit a…

Vancouver, BC: Lyme disease sufferers ticked off with Vancouver clinic that was supposed to help them

ByCanLyme TeamApr 25, 20151 min read

BY DAN FUMANO, THE PROVINCE APRIL 22, 2015 In 2013, a clinic heralded as the first of its kind…

Kingston Whig, ON: Lyme disease controversy

ByCanLyme TeamApr 25, 20153 min read

[CanLyme note: Dr. Gerald Evans’ comments in the article linked below are a great example of why patients Canada-wide are…

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

Goldhawk Fights Back am740 Zoomers radio – October 17th, 2012- Lyme

ByCanLyme TeamOct 17, 20121 min read

Lyme disease was the very hot topic on today’s popular Dale Goldhawk radio show “Goldhawk Fights Back” on Am…

A Novel Iron- and Copper-Binding Protein in the Lyme Disease Spirochete.

ByCanLymeOct 17, 20122 min read

Related Articles A Novel Iron- and Copper-Binding Protein in the Lyme Disease Spirochete. Mol Microbiol. 2012 Oct 15; Authors:…

1993, Calgary Herald newspaper … Lyme disease victims tell their story

ByCanLyme TeamOct 16, 20121 min read

Lyme disease is not new to Canada, it has been around for centuries.  The finding that the Iceman, a 5000…

Diastolic Heart Murmur, Nocturnal Back Pain, and Lumbar Rigidity in a 7-Year Girl: An Unusual Manifestation of Lyme Disease in Childhood

ByCanLyme TeamOct 13, 20129 min read

Case Reports in Pediatrics Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 976961, 3 pagesdoi:10.1155/2012/976961 Case Report Diastolic Heart Murmur, Nocturnal Back…

Evolving Perspectives on Lyme Borreliosis in Canada

ByCanLyme TeamOct 11, 20122 min read

J.L.H. Sperling1,2, M.J. Middelveen2, D. Klein3, and F.A.H. Sperling*,1 1Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada 2Canadian…

The Lymphocyte Transformation Test for Borrelia Detects Active Lyme Borreliosis and Verifies Effective Antibiotic Treatment

ByCanLyme TeamOct 11, 20122 min read

Volker von Baehr, Cornelia Doebis, Hans-Dieter Volk, Rüdiger von Baehr Published Date: (05 October, 2012) Borrelia-specific antibodies are not…

Chronic or Late Lyme Neuroborreliosis: Present and Future

ByCanLyme TeamOct 11, 20121 min read

Judith Miklossy*, Samuel Donta, Kurt Mueller, Oliver Nolte and George Perry Alzheimer Research Center, Prevention Alzheimer International Foundation, 1921…

A Reappraisal of the U.S. Clinical Trials of Post-Treatment Lyme Disease Syndrome

ByCanLyme TeamOct 11, 20121 min read

Brian A. Fallon, Eva Petkova, John G. Keilp and Carolyn B. Britton Published Date: (05 October, 2012) Four federally…

The Psychoimmunology of Lyme/Tick-Borne Diseases and its Association with Neuropsychiatric Symptoms

ByCanLyme TeamOct 11, 20122 min read

Robert C. Bransfield* Abstract: Disease progression of neuropsychiatric symptoms in Lyme/tick-borne diseases can be better understood by greater attention…