One year later: How the landmark NASEM report on chronic Lyme is – and isn’t – changing minds
A year can seem long or short depending on your perspective. When you look back, its 12 months can seem…
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Living with persistent illness and uncertainty: Patient narratives on Lyme disease in Nova Scotia, Canada
A new peer-reviewed paper by Marilyn Cox and Mario Levesque investigates the experiences of 21 individuals in Nova Scotia who…
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Feeling sick after eating that steak dinner? You could have a rare but potentially severe tick-borne allergy
Health professionals need to know more about alpha-gal syndrome – a rare tick-borne condition that can cause severe and even…
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Elliot Jacobson: Downstream Secondary Illness in Lyme Disease
In this session from the Canadian Tick-Borne Disease Conference, Dr. Jacobson discusses the chronic immune dysfunction that can result from…
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Why Lyme disease isn’t the only tick-borne infection you need to worry about
When you show up at your family doctor’s office with a tick bite, chances are the first thing your physician…
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Interventions to manage mold and mycotoxicities
Dr. LaTouche takes an in depth look at how mold and mycotoxins can stand in the way of optimal outcomes…
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Environmental toxicities: Confounding presentations
In her session, Dr. Farrow explains how environmental toxicities can seriously confound the presentation of Lyme disease and delay recovery….
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Highlights in Lyme disease research 2024-2026
The following is an edited transcript from a Center for Lyme Action “State of Lyme Disease Research” online presentation delivered…
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Acute Lyme: Recognizing and initiating urgent treatment
Experienced Lyme physician Dr. Elliot Jacobson does an in-depth review of the stages and symptoms of Lyme disease, the challenges…
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So you’ve been bitten by a tick. Here’s why you’ll have to pay a private lab to test it for pathogens
As the weather gets warmer and Canadians shed their winter layers to get out in the sun, we should beware…
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Dr. Tim Cook on structured functional medicine approach to treatment of Lyme disease
Testing and treatment are front and centre in this session as Dr. Cook defines functional medicine, including upstream and downstream…
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Dr. Tim Cook on chronic persistent tick-borne illness: Recognition of symptom complexes
In this session Dr. Cook provides an overview of chronic complex illness, reviews the complexities of chronic Lyme diagnosis, reviews…
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Antibiotic therapy an effective treatment and diagnostic tool for children with persistent Lyme disease, study finds
Antibiotic therapy is not only a safe and effective method of treating persistent Lyme disease in children, it’s also a…
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Tick-borne infections can trigger bipolar disorder in children, study suggests
Psychiatrists should recognize the role that infectious diseases play in mental illness and screen their patients for them, says a…
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Dr. Vett Lloyd on biobanks and the science of tick-borne post-infection illness
As part of our CTD Conference video series, we are sharing this presentation by Dr. Vett Lloyd – a professor…
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Justin Wood reviews Canada’s growing tick problem
The next in our series of videos from our CTD Conference features Justin Wood – a research associate at the…
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Dr. Brian Fallon on Neuropsychiatric Lyme
As a renowned expert on neuropsychiatric Lyme disease, Dr. Fallon was an excellent addition to the speakers at our Canadian…
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New research: Infrared thermography makes the bullseye rash more visible for diagnosis of Lyme
Lyme disease can be a hard condition to diagnose at the best of times, but it can be particularly difficult…
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Diagnostic tools for Lyme disease, by Dr. Ralph Hawkins
Following the success of our inaugural Canadian Tick-Borne Disease Conference, CanLyme is sharing selected video presentations of conference sessions with…
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How CanLyme’s annual conferences could lead to better care for patients with Lyme disease and other tick-borne illnesses
When the Canadian Lyme Disease Foundation began putting together its first annual conference early in 2025, it set a major…
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Why so many Lyme disease patients slip through the cracks in our health-care system — and how we can prevent it
Physicians need to do more follow-up with early Lyme disease patients to determine if they require more treatment, because more…
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It’s not just Lyme disease you have to watch out for. Other tick-borne illnesses are on the rise in Canada
When a 64-year-old woman showed up at the emergency room of an Ontario hospital last year with a high fever…
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Why an integrated approach to tick-borne pathogens is important in the diagnosis of clinical cases
The article titled “Why an Integrated Approach to Tick-Borne Pathogens (Bacterial, Viral, and Parasitic) Is Important in the Diagnosis of…
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No, it’s not all in your head: How a new report could be a massive game changer for long Lyme sufferers
There could be new hope for the estimated tens of thousands of Canadians who’ve suffered for years from the debilitating…
