Focus – Opinions and Features

By Sophia Sargent My family’s journey with Lyme and other tick-borne diseases has been anything but straightforward. We faced crisis after crisis, confusion at every turn, and a desperate search for answers. From unexplained chest pains with no cardiac findings to mental‑health... Read More »

By Fred Diamond Many Lyme survivors have told me about their journey to discover the root cause of their inability to heal from chronic Lyme disease. Most have completed rigorous treatment yet struggle to work or resume normal life, even after being told their labs are normal or... Read More »

By Ali Moresco For years, people living with Lyme disease and other infection-associated chronic illnesses have reported cognitive decline, mood changes, memory problems, and unexplained psychiatric symptoms. Yet these symptoms are routinely dismissed as psychological rather than... Read More »

Book review by Terri McCormick What if the reason you are not healing is not the treatment itself, but the condition of your cells? Breaking Through Chronic Illness is written for anyone who has tried countless treatments yet still feels unwell. Dr. Melanie Stein speaks to those... Read More »

Pathobiome Perspectives is an interview series exploring the role of infections in chronic neurological and psychiatric conditions—including Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, Lyme disease, and long COVID. By Ali Moresco New research presented at the 2nd Annual Alzheimer’s Pathobiome... Read More »

Pathobiome Perspectives is an interview series exploring the role of infections in chronic neurological and psychiatric conditions—including Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, Lyme disease, and long COVID. By Ali Moresco For years, people living with chronic Lyme disease and other... Read More »

By Fred Diamond If you’ve ever struggled to explain what chronic Lyme disease really feels like with the confusion, the disappearing health, the disbelief from doctors and even people close to you, you’ll understand exactly why Lyme survivor and advocate (Generation Lyme) Jesse... Read More »

By Kaitlyn Oleinik My Lyme journey didn’t begin with a catastrophic moment. It began subtly--too subtly. Years before my symptoms exploded, a family member spotted a tick on my thigh during a float trip on the Black River. I was six years old. We brushed it off, literally, and... Read More »

by Dr. Melanie Stein The morning my legs wouldn’t move changed everything I thought I knew about health. Full-body tremors tore through me. I couldn’t stand, let alone walk. I was admitted to the hospital, frightened, searching for answers. A long list of tests returned “normal,”... Read More »