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By Isabel Teotonio Education Reporter Fri., Dec. 14, 2018 Bruce Shilton’s crippling fatigue left him bedridden for six months. Sue Faber was so forgetful, she couldn’t remember her daughters’ birthdates. And Andrea Smith’s relentless aches sent her into a deep depression. All three Canadians say they are struggling with a chronic form of Lyme disease and feel abandoned by Canada’s health-care system. The challenge for them, and other patients with Lyme, is that the medical community is divided on how best to diagnose and treat this controversial disease. On one side of this deep divide are mainstream doctors who say Lyme is easy to diagnose with standard testing, and the prevailing treatment — a short course of antibiotics — is enough to kill the bacteria that causes the disease. They believe patients who think they have chronic Lyme but have no evidence of infection are grappling with other illnesses and that … [Read more...] about Everything about Lyme disease is steeped in controversy. Now some doctors are too afraid to treat patients
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As doctors taper or end opioid prescriptions, many patients driven to despair, suicide
close Video Treating America's Pain: Unintended Victims of the Opioid Crackdown, Part 1 – The Suicides The national opioid crisis propelled a crackdown on prescription painkillers, causing hundreds of doctors to abruptly reduce or completely cut off their patients’ prescriptions, leaving many among the estimated 20 million Americans who suffer from daily debilitating chronic pain to consider suicide. This is the story of the overlooked victims of America's opioid epidemic. This is the first of a three-part series on the nation's struggle to address a crippling opioid crisis, and the unintended victims left in its wake. It happened slowly. The pain caused by a 1980 back fracture, the result of a tractor-trailer crash, crippled more and more of Jay Lawrence’s body and spirit. By 2006, the Tennessee native and Navy veteran’s arms and legs were going numb. The excruciating pain reduced him to tears. Multiple surgeries, chiropractic … [Read more...] about As doctors taper or end opioid prescriptions, many patients driven to despair, suicide
Florence: Tropical Storm moves into South Carolina
Florence fast facts: Florence made landfall as a hurricane near Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina, Friday morning. Florence was located about 15 miles west-northwest of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina as of 11 p.m. Friday. A mother and an infant were killed when a tree fell onto their home in Wilmington. Police said the father was taken to a nearby hospital. Tornadoes are possible in southeastern North Carolina and northeastern South Carolina through Saturday night. Soldiers from Fort Campbell and Fort Drum are being deployed to North Carolina to assist with response and recovery efforts. CBS News Pentagon correspondent David Martin confirms companies of high water trucks are being sent. Over 927,865 (738,826 in North Carolina and 189,039 in South Carolina) homes and businesses were without power late Friday night. Re-entry to parts of North Carolina's Outer Banks is expected to begin on Saturday, Sept. 15. Residents and property owners will have access to the areas north … [Read more...] about Florence: Tropical Storm moves into South Carolina
Syrian doctors ordered at GUNPOINT to deny chemical attack or their children will be killed
SYRIAN doctors have been ordered at gunpoint to deny chemical attacks or their children will be killed. A medic in Douma reported they were being forced to say there was no gas attack, with the fate of their children used against them. Labour MP Geraint Davies told the Commons debate today he had spoken with a Syrian doctor who passed on the message of threats. Mr Davies said: "A Syrian doctor in Swansea approached me to say that his wife’s family... were under a gas attack where their two-year-old died in front of them. “He’s now telling me doctors in Douma are saying Syrians, at the point of a gun, are saying, ‘unless you give a testimony, doctor, that there wasn’t a gas attack, we’ll be killing your children’.” This comes after an attack in Duoma killed up to 75 people - Syria and Russia have denied responsibility for the strike. PM Theresa May explains why UK took military action against Assad regime in Syria in Commons … [Read more...] about Syrian doctors ordered at GUNPOINT to deny chemical attack or their children will be killed
Who is Baba Vanga? Predictions list for the blind mystic, from Brexit to World War 3 and the 2018 Russian election
THE supposed prophecies of a blind woman from Bulgaria have been used by conspiracy theorists as proof that she was able to predict the future. Baba Vanga's claims have been tenuously linked to events such as the September 11 attacks and the Syrian chemical attacks. Here is all you need to know. Who is blind mystic Baba Vanga? Baba Vanga, born Vangelia Pandeva Dimitrova, was raised in Strumica, a village located at the foot of a volcanic mountain range in what was then the Ottoman Empire She passed away in 1995, aged 85, and was dubbed the “Nostradamus from the Balkans." Baba led an ordinary life up until the age of 12, when she mysteriously lost her eyesight during a massive storm — described as a freak tornado. The youngster is said to have been flung into the air and then thrown to the ground by a powerful gust of wind. Her family reportedly found her close to death several days later while her eyes were injured and sealed shut, encrusted with a thick layer of dust and … [Read more...] about Who is Baba Vanga? Predictions list for the blind mystic, from Brexit to World War 3 and the 2018 Russian election