“We are really working day and night” to figure out long Covid, one researcher said. By Yasmin Tayag Even as the number of new Covid-19 cases in the US is dropping, hundreds of thousands of Americans are still testing positive every day. More than 28 million new cases...
CHUK Study Adds to Evidence that Gut Microbiome Associates with Long COVID
rialSite continues to report on possible connections between the microbiome and COVID-19, including the results of a study sponsored by the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) Center for Gut Microbiota Research. Now, CUHK researchers are in the...
NIH-Funded RECOVER Study Centers on Long COVID & Vaccine-associated Myocarditis
While children were for the most part spared during the first couple of pandemic surges, this hasn’t been the case with the Delta and Omicron variants of concern. While severe cases due to SARS-CoV-2 infection remain far rarer than with adults, more children are...
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New Research Hints at 4 Factors That May Increase Chances of Long Covid
If further study confirms the findings, they could lead to ways to prevent and treat the complex condition. By Pam Belluck It is one of many mysteries about long Covid: Who is more prone to developing it? Are some people more likely than others to experience physical,...
Israel Study Suggests Full Vaccination Substantially Reduces Risk of Long COVID
A study led by corresponding author Paul Kuodi with the Faculty of Medicine at Bar-Ilan University, Israel and the Galilee Medical Center, uncovered what appears as potentially good news. Still in preprint mode—the study shouldn’t be cited as evidence—it nonetheless,...
Doc Touts Long COVID ‘Cure’
by Jennifer Henderson Patients Spend Thousands on Long COVID 'Cure' As COVID-19 continues to wreak havoc for many patients long after their initial symptoms subside, some are seeking help in expensive and experimental forms. Mother Jones reported on the case of a...
Could microclots help explain the mystery of long Covid?
By Resia Pretorius My lab has found significant microclot formation in long Covid patients. Unfortunately, these are missed in routine blood tests One of the biggest failures during the Covid-19 pandemic is our slow response in diagnosing and treating long Covid. As...
Complementary and alternative medicine for the COVID-19 pandemic: current evidence and emerging challenges
Integrative Medicine Research, Volume 10, Supplement, In progress (2021) This issue is in progress but contains articles that are final and fully citable. Click here for the full issueTCM for COVID-19 treatment: the road ahead This editorial discusses aspects...
Patients that Received Dexamethasone less Afflicted with Long COVID
Researchers from the North Bristol NHS Trust, Academic Respiratory Unit in Bristol, UK, recently uploaded study results to the medRxiv preprint server. The study team sought to identify if the corticosteroid dexamethasone, proven to reduce COVID-19 mortality in...
Antibodies mimicking the virus may explain long haul COVID-19, rare vaccine side effects
by Nadine A Yehya, UC Davis With around 256 million cases and more than 5 million deaths worldwide, the COVID-19 pandemic has challenged scientists and those in the medical field. Researchers are working to find effective vaccines and therapies, as well as understand...
Stanford Medicine Securing $15m to Conduct NIH-Sponsored RECOVER Study Investigating Long COVID
Standard Medicine principal investigators will receive nearly $15 million over a four-year term from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study long COVID. Stanford is but one of 30 research teams involved with the imminent, nationwide, NIH-sponsored RECOVER...
Even Health-Care Workers With Long COVID Are Being Dismissed
Medical professionals are used to being believed, but as patients, they found that their expertise didn’t matter. By Ed Yong Before she caught COVID-19 at a wedding in March 2020, the physician associate spent her days diagnosing and treating people; after she was...
The Long-Term Loss of Smell Many People Have After COVID Is a ‘Public Health Concern,’ Researchers Say
Between 700,000 and 1.6 million people in the US who had COVID-19 had a loss or change in smell that lasted for more than six months, researchers estimate. By Korin Miller A lost sense of smell was one of the first known symptoms of COVID-19. And since...
Long COVID from the Perspective of Anthroposophic Medicine – Symptoms and Treatment Options
Recommendations of an international expert commission for health professionals By Henrik Szőke, et al. Published September 27, 2021 in Anthromedics Abstract A growing number of people are affected by a Long COVID syndrome with often long-lasting, significant...