Abstract Background Long COVID is a complex, heterogeneous syndrome affecting over four hundred million people globally. There are few recommendations, and no formal training exists for medical professionals to assist […]
🧠 Long COVID and Edema: A 2025 Clinical Overview
📚 Background and Etiology Long COVID, or post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection (PASC), affects 10–30% of individuals post-infection, with symptoms persisting beyond three months. Edema—fluid accumulation in tissues—has emerged as […]
Long-Term Impact of COVID-19 on Physical, Cognitive, and Psychological Health
The following is a summary of “A biopsychosocial analysis of risk factors for persistent physical, cognitive, and psychological symptoms among previously hospitalized post-COVID-19 patients,” published in Scientific Reports by Claessens et […]
Data-driven RECOVER research produces new discoveries about Long COVID.
This installment of the RECOVER Research Update—a summary of recent findings published every 3 months—focuses on innovative research using patient information contained in electronic health records (EHRs). Each time a person […]
A health puzzle: Four years of long COVID research paints an unsettling medical picture
Posted by TheConversation |,By Ziyad Al-Aly, Chief of Research and Development, VA St. Louis Health Care System. Clinical Epidemiologist, Washington University in St. Louis Since 2020, the condition known as long COVID-19 has […]
🧠 COVID-19 Long-Haul Syndrome and Narcolepsy: Emerging Links in Post-Viral Neurology
Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic has unveiled a spectrum of long-haul symptoms, including persistent fatigue, cognitive dysfunction, and sleep disturbances. Recent case reports and longitudinal studies suggest a potential link between […]
Mortality of Post-COVID-19 Condition: 2025 Update
Giuseppe Lippi 1,* and Fabian Sanchis-Gomar 2 , COVID 2025, 5(1), 11; https://doi.org/10.3390/covid5010011 Abstract Background: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has generated profound health, societal, and economic consequences, which have been further compounded by long-term […]
Long COVID 2025: Symptoms, diagnosis, post-COVID treatments and the latest long COVID research
Welcome to the AMA Update video and podcast. Today, we’re talking about the latest on long COVID with Dr. Akiko Iwasaki, the Sterling Professor of Immunobiology at Yale University in […]
Autoimmunity as One of Long COVID’s Underlying Drivers
by Isabella Backman New research offers evidence that autoimmunity—in which the body’s immune system targets its own tissues—is a driver in some cases of Long COVID. Why COVID-19 sometimes leads […]
Long Covid: Persistent Shortness of Breath Due to Treatable Nerve Injury
By Jonathan Aviv M.D. & Suiana Chandrasekhar M.D. Some COVID-19 long haulers have persistent shortness of breath but normal lung imaging. (Photo source: iStock) Persistent shortness of breath in COVID-19 long […]