When Dr. Elena Winters first joined Memorial Regional Hospital’s infectious disease department in 2019, the diagnosis process for complex infections often felt like solving a puzzle with missing pieces. Traditional culture methods sometimes took days or even weeks, leaving patients on broad-spectrum antibiotics while clinicians waited for answers. “Those were agonizing days for both patients …

A Sudden Decline in Health In the quiet of a chilly October morning, 72-year-old Evelyn found herself being rushed to the hospital yet again, gripped by a familiar yet terrifying sensation: fever, weakness, and confusion. It had been nearly nine months since her health first began to decline. What started as bouts of fever quickly …