A blood test for long Covid is possible, a study suggests


Scientists can now show key differences in the blood of those who recover from Covid — and those who don’t. Sept. 25, 2023, 11:01 AM EDT By Erika Edwards NBC Health More than three years into the pandemic, the millions of people who have suffered from long Covid finally have scientific proof that their condition is […]

Detection of SARS-CoV-2 viral proteins and genomic sequences in human brainstem nuclei


Aron Emmi, Stefania Rizzo, Luisa Barzon, Michele Sandre, Elisa Carturan, Alessandro Sinigaglia, Silvia Riccetti, Mila Della Barbera, Rafael Boscolo-Berto, Patrizia Cocco, Veronica Macchi, Angelo Antonini, Monica De Gaspari, Cristina Basso, Raffaele De Caro & Andrea Porzionato  npj Parkinson’s Disease volume 9, Article number: 25 (2023) Cite this articleAbstract Open Access Published: 13 February 2023 Neurological manifestations are common in COVID-19, the disease caused by SARS-CoV-2. Despite reports of SARS-CoV-2 detection in the brain and cerebrospinal fluid of COVID-19 […]

CSF and blood biomarkers in COVID-19 and other neuroinfectious diseases


Matteo Foschi1,2 Samir Abu-Rumeileh3 Federico Massa4 Christian Cordano4,5 Ahmed Abdelhak5* 11 July 2023 Frontiers in Medicine CSF and blood biomarkers in COVID-19 and other neuroinfectious diseases The past decades have witnessed advances in the development of ultrasensitive assays to measure biofluid markers to improve the diagnosis and characterization of central nervous system (CNS) involvement in primary and non-primary neurological […]

Acute blood biomarker profiles predict cognitive deficits 6 and 12 months after COVID-19 hospitalization


Maxime Taquet, Zuzanna Skorniewska, Adam Hampshire, James D. Chalmers, Ling-Pei Ho, Alex Horsley, Michael Marks, Krisnah Poinasamy, Betty Raman, Olivia C. Leavy, Matthew Richardson, Omer Elneima, Hamish J. C. McAuley, Aarti Shikotra, Amisha Singapuri, Marco Sereno, Ruth M. Saunders, Victoria C. Harris, Linzy Houchen-Wolloff, Neil J. Greening, Parisa Mansoori, Ewen M. Harrison, Annemarie B. Docherty, Nazir I. Lone, PHOSP-COVID Study Collaborative Group Nature Medicine (August 2023)  Abstract Post-COVID cognitive deficits, including ‘brain fog’, are clinically complex, with both objective and […]

What Is Long COVID?


By Rachael Zimlich, BSN, RN August 08, 2023 By the end of February 2022, nearly 60% of the U.S. population had SARS-CoV-2 antibodies indicating they had been infected with COVID-19.1 Even for those who recover, SARS-CoV-2 poses serious long-term physical and mental challenges. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), around 15% of all adults […]

Changes to Eyes May Signal Long COVID: Study


Authors:  Marcia Frellick July 28, 2021 British Journal of Ophthalmology Evidence of “long COVID” may be present in a patient’s eyes, according to a small study published online this week in the British Journal of Ophthalmology. The researchers found that nerve fiber loss and an increase in dendritic or key immune cells on the cornea may help identify long […]

First Diagnostic Test for Long Covid, Detecting Spike Protein in Blood, to Launch in September. Or is it ‘Long Vaccine’?


Authors{ WILL JONES 3 SEPTEMBER 2022  The first diagnostic designed to identify patients with Long Covid has received CE-IVD marking in Europe, meaning it is ready for its formal launch in countries accepting the designation this month. It works by looking for “patterns of inflammatory marker expression” in the blood, and in particular for the […]

Neurotoxic amyloidogenic peptides in the proteome of SARS-COV2: potential implications for neurological symptoms in COVID-19


Authors : Mirren Charnley, Saba Islam,  Guneet K. Bindra,  Jeremy Engwirda,  Julian Ratcliffe,  Jiangtao Zhou,  Raffaele Mezzenga,  Mark D. Hulett,  Kyunghoon Han,  Joshua T. Berryman & Nicholas P. Reynolds  Nature Communications volume 13, Article number: 3387 (2022)  July 2022 Abstract COVID-19 is primarily known as a respiratory disease caused by SARS-CoV-2. However, neurological symptoms such as memory loss, sensory confusion, severe headaches, and […]

COVID-19: A Global Threat to the Nervous System


Authors: Igor J. Koralnik MD,Kenneth L. Tyler MD 07 June 2020 Annals of NeurologyVolume 88, Issue 1 p. 1-11 Abstract In less than 6 months, the severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus type 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has spread worldwide infecting nearly 6 million people and killing over 350,000. Initially thought to be restricted to the respiratory system, we now […]

Why are boosted Americans testing positive for COVID more than those without extra shot?


Authors: Julia Marnin, McClatchy Washington Bureau June 7, 2022 Since late February, Americans who have gotten a booster shot appear to be testing positive for COVID-19 more often than those vaccinated without the extra shot, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data. This is based on numbers up until the week of April […]