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4 Signs Your Aches & Pains Could Be Lyme Disease

I just did a blog for MindBodyGreen. It discusses six clinical signs that indicate when your aches and pains could be due to Lyme disease. Please consider sharing this with your friends and family to ...
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Meditation and Mindfulness: Part I, Calm Abiding Meditation

Mindfulness based meditation techniques help with anxiety and depression Over the years, I have found that the pain and suffering associated with Lyme disease and tick-borne disorders not only manifest as physical symptoms, but have ...
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Lyme Disease May Be Sexually Transmitted

Commentary: A collaborative effort of an international team of scientists, researchers and clinicians have found evidence of Borrelia burgdorferi in semen samples and vaginal secretions from patients with Lyme disease. Considering the spirochetal nature of ...
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Elizabeth May (Green): Bill to create a national Lyme disease strategy (C-442)

Commentary: Canadian politicians are frequently hearing from Southern Canadian patients about their struggles with Lyme disease. This disease can only be cured at the early stages, and otherwise can go on to cause chronic incapacitating ...
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LymeDisease Bacteria and Borrelia Miyamotoi Can Be Reliably Diagnosed byDNA Sequencing, Milford Hospital Pathologist Announced

Commentary: A new commercially available PCR test is now available for Lyme disease and Borrelia miyamotoi. If clinically validated, this would be an important step forward in testing, as we have not had reliable tests ...
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From AIDS to Lyme: Will We Let History Repeat Itself?

Commentary: This controversial article just published in Truthout.org describes the similarities of the Lyme epidemic to the AIDS epidemic, and encourages governments across the world to come together so that history doesn't repeat itself. From ...
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Overcoming Agony of 14 Years of an Undetected Disease and Seeking Her Moment

Commentary: This is also my experience, that so many individuals suffer for long periods of time with an "undiagnosed" case of Lyme. We need better medical education for health care practitioners so that they understand ...
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Lyme Disease –Induced Polyradiculopathy Mimicking Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

Commentary: Lyme disease can cause neurological presentations that mimic ALS. There are a small percentage of cases of ALS linked to a Lyme infection that can be helped with antibiotics. I discuss this in chapter ...
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Tweed Lyme disease sufferers closer to recognition

Commentary: I have had patients travel to see me from Australia for Lyme disease, because they were unable to get properly diagnosed and treated in their own country. More and more international communities are finally ...
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Scientists and doctors unite to defeat tick bite disease

Commentary: Worldwide epidemic alert: Lyme disease increased 1000% in Scotland over the past decade. Scientists and doctors unite to defeat tick bite disease, Herald Scotland
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