Health committee  Thank you for allowing me to interject. Dr. Njoo just alluded to my name and then mentioned that there was no definitive evidence of transmission of Borrelia. I know that this committee has been given in evidence a textbook that was published in the late 1990s on neonatal dise

Health committee  The barriers to the accurate diagnosis of Lyme disease start with the patient's presentation for medical assistance. When patients present and give a clear history of a tick bite, they're often greeted with a rebuff, as Liz has already suggested—“Lyme disease doesn't exist here;

Health committee  A really short answer to that question is yes.

Health committee  I would like to see included in the framework the literature from Dr. Samuel Donta, for example, that addresses cohorts of patients who have received longer duration treatments with oral antibiotic therapies with outcomes that have been really quite satisfactory. This is not addr

Health committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. My name is Ralph Hawkins. I'm a physician with a practice in an academic medical setting in Calgary. I'm told anecdotally that my practice seeing my patients is one of the largest in Canada. Since 2012 we have evaluated more than 300 patients pres