Galaxy Diagnostics and Virginia Tech Unite to Advance Testing for Lyme Disease By Nicole Danielle Bell, CEO of Galaxy Diagnostics and author of What Lurks in the Woods When a Test Fails a Patient When diagnostics fail patients, the consequences are real. I’ve lived it. My husband tested negative using the current standard-of-care test for… Continue reading Two LymeX Innovators, One Mission: Better Answers for Patients
Galaxy Diagnostics and Virginia Tech Unite to Strengthen Direct Detection Approaches for Lyme Disease By Nicole Danielle Bell, CEO of Galaxy Diagnostics and author of What Lurks in the Woods The Diagnostic Uncertainty Clinicians Face Clinicians evaluating patients with suspected tick-borne disease routinely manage diagnostic uncertainty. Prior exposure, immune variability, and timing-dependent antibody responses can… Continue reading Two LymeX Innovators, One Mission: Advancing Reliable Lyme Diagnostics
Making Sense of Lyme Research – What Does the Science Say? When I finally realized that my husband’s early-onset Alzheimer’s was caused by Lyme disease and other co-infections, I tried to use my engineering background to make sense of it all. I very quickly found myself lost. An excerpt from my memoir about our… Continue reading Making sense of Lyme Research – What does the Science say?
Her husband died from Lyme-related causes. Now she advocates for change. January 14th. The date loomed on my calendar like a dark rain cloud. One year since Russ died. One year since I watched him lying lifeless in that hospice bed, a broken shell of the captivating man he once was. And to make… Continue reading Lyme Learnings from the Trenches
My fascination with Bartonella all started with two little pills.
My husband, Russ, was diagnosed with three tick-borne pathogens: Borrelia burgdorferi, Bartonella henselae, and Babesia duncani. I researched each of the unwanted invaders, but my efforts quickly focused on Borrelia, the bacteria causing Lyme Disease. Lyme gets most of the headlines, so it must be the most significant factor in Russ’s case, right?
Herb- and plant-based medicines have been used for as long as 60,000 years, with the first written record dating to 7,000 years ago. While these medicines have survived scientific evaluation with varying success, one in four medications currently used has a plant-based origin. One of the most successful medications treats a vector-borne disease. With all… Continue reading Plant-based cures for Vector-borne disease
