Authors: Melissa Healy August 13, 2022 la times For more than two years, Cathy Baron and Sara Alicia Costa managed to duck the coronavirus. But despite their being fully vaccinated and boosted, the Omicron variant finally caught them. Baron is an actress and dance instructor who lives in Santa Monica. Costa is an architect in Austin, […]
Authors: Bloomberg/The Strait Times August 11, 2022 Striking decreases in the stress hormone cortisol were the strongest predictor for who develops long Covid in new research that identified several potential drivers of the lingering symptoms afflicting millions of survivors. Levels of cortisol in the blood of those with the so-called post Covid-19 condition were roughly half […]
Authors: Shanet Susan Alex Aug 2 2022 Medical Life Sciences News In a recent article posted to Open Forum Infectious Diseases, scientists analyzed coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) symptoms lasting 23 months after the infection. Background More than 572 million confirmed severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) cases globally were reported over two and a half years […]
Authors: Acen Winnie August 8, 2022 Clinical studies on multiple COVID-19 vaccines have disregarded effects of vaccines on women’s menstruation. There were countless complaints to doctors about related symptoms soon after immunizations were made available to the general population. Many women became aware of heavier-than-normal periods. The authors of a recent survey on the subject that was published in […]
Authors: Enrico Trigozo Epoch Times August 6, 2022 Dr. Anthony Fauci’s recent comments on menstrual irregularities met with serious rebuttal from gynecologists, who say COVID-19 vaccines should not have been injected into pregnant women without adequate safety testing. “Well, the menstrual thing is something that seems to be quite transient and temporary, that’s one of the points,” Fauci […]
Authors: David Olsen August 6, 2022 Newsday Children who test positive for COVID-19 are much more likely to develop blood clots and cardiac problems weeks after their infection, compared with kids who did not contract the virus, a newly released study found. The study, published Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, also […]
Experts cautiously optimistic that virus doesn’t target fetus during first trimester. Authors: MEREDITH WADMAN August 7. 2022 SCIENCE When a pregnant woman gets sick, her doctors have two patients: the woman and her fetus. While obstetricians work to understand COVID-19’s impact on mothers-to-be (see main story, p. 606), they are also carefully tracking the virus’ impact on […]
Authors: Helena Oliviero, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Georgia residents among thousands needed for a massive study to discover how the virus causes lingering symptoms. Back in the summer of 2020, when the pandemic was still new and hospitals were overflowing, Emory Healthcare opened a facility to treat a perplexing group of COVID-19 survivors. The patients had withstood […]
Authors: IANS July 2022 A team of international researchers may have uncovered the cause of the neurological conditions seen in patients with long-Covid, such as brain fog. The team from Swinburne University of Technology and La Trobe University in Australia and Luxembourg University in Luxembourg revealed that fragments of proteins from the SARS-CoV-2 virus can […]
