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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
— More severe post-COVID gastrointestinal symptoms also increased the risk for anxiety and sadness by Zaina Hamza Mental health symptoms in people who recovered from COVID-19 were associated with post-infection gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms, a survey-based study...
— A story of knowledge and recovery by Paul Gardener, MD I'm 65, and I'm fit and well. When COVID struck, I was enjoying life. I was doing lots of running and cycling. I felt I was titanium-plated in some ways. The disease was traveling very rapidly through the U.K. I...
By Nancy Lapid Oct 27 (Reuters) - The following is a summary of some recent studies on COVID-19. They include research that warrants further study to corroborate the findings and that have yet to be certified by peer review. Breakthrough infections can lead to long...
Lingering fatigue, shortness of breath, and brain fog are among the symptoms people may experience months after infection, the WHO says. By Ed Cara This week, the World Health Organization released diagnostic criteria for long covid, a perplexing condition that...
By Jason Gale Heart damage from Covid-19 extends well beyond the disease’s initial stages, according to a study that found even people who were never sick enough to need hospitalization are in danger of developing heart failure and deadly blood clots a year later....
By Leonard B. Weinstock, M.D. FACG et al. Article in Press ~ International Journal of Infectious Diseases Highlights •Mast cell activation symptoms (MCAS) were increased in Long-COVID patients•Long-COVID patients had similar severity of numerous MCAS symptoms•Aberrant...
With Commentary by Mark Bricca, ND This is an excellent article on long-Covid syndrome from the amazing Tomas Pueyo.Not to minimize the stark points he makes, I would suggest that we actually do have some good tools for treating chronic fatigue syndrome and myalgic...
— Study finds little reason for optimism about long-term outlook By John Gever New studies confirm that fatigue remains the most common feature of so-called long COVID-19, and in a substantial fraction it is the most stubborn. In fact, researchers are finding that a...
People who experience breakthrough infections of the coronavirus after being fully vaccinated are about 50 percent less likely to experience long Covid than are unvaccinated people who catch the virus, researchers said in a large new report on British adults. The...
While the vaccines are effective at preventing serious illness and death, the risk of developing post-Covid health problems after a breakthrough infection isn’t known. By Tara Parker-Pope While some breakthrough cases among those who are fully vaccinated against...