Bartonella: The Blind Spot Pathogen Clinicians Can’t Afford to Miss
By Edward B. Breitschwerdt, DVM, Co-Founder, Galaxy Diagnostics, and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases, NC State University College of Veterinary Medicine
Summary: Bartonella is one of the most diagnostically overlooked pathogens in clinical medicine, not because it is rare, but because the standard tools used to find it (including both… Continue reading
Two LymeX Innovators, One Mission: Better Answers for Patients
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: Advancing Reliable Lyme Diagnostics
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
How Vector-Borne Pathogens Evade the Immune System
By Jennifer C. Miller, PhD, Vice President of Clinical & Scientific Operations, Galaxy Diagnostics
Summary: Babesia, Bartonella, and Borrelia are three of the most clinically important tick-borne pathogens in North America, while simultaneously being three of the most diagnostically elusive. Each has evolved distinct biological strategies to hide from the host immune system, suppress… Continue reading
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
Lyme Learnings from the Trenches
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