What is long COVID? Here’s how doctors actually define it

COVID-19 / Long-haul Disease / Long-term Effects / Symptoms Posted on: June 2, 2025June 1, 2025

What is long COVID? Here’s how doctors actually define it

By Dr. Faith Coleman, Study finds COVID-19 has been a tangle of alarming riddles wrapped in perplexing enigmas and devastating consequences. It has killed more than a million people in the […]

Altered Mental State / COVID-19 / Long-haul Disease / Long-term Effects / Mental Health / Symptoms Posted on: May 30, 2025May 29, 2025

12-Month physical and mental symptom scores after COVID-19 hospitalization and their role in predicting “very long” COVID

Oleksii Honchar1*Tetiana Ashcheulova, Alla Bobeiko, et. al. Background: Long COVID syndrome (LCS) represents a significant global health challenge due to its wide-ranging physical and cognitive symptoms that persist beyond 12 months […]

Arthritis / Brain Fog / Chest Pain / Dizziness / Fatigue / Gastrointestinal / IL-6 / Long-haul Disease / Long-term Effects / Palpitations / Sexual dysfunction / Taste & Smell Posted on: May 28, 2025April 7, 2025

Seeking Answers to Long COVID

Long COVID affects tens of millions of people worldwide, yet it remains a mystery. By Linda Rath | The COVID-19 public health emergency officially ended on May 11, 2023, but […]

Arthritis / C-reactive Protein / Hyperinflammation / JAK inhibitor / Long-haul Disease / Long-term Effects / Upadacitinib Posted on: May 25, 2025April 6, 2025

Post-COVID-19 Inflammatory Arthritis Treated With Upadacitinib: A Case Report

Cherie S. Zhi • Ami Ben-Artzi, DOI: 10.7759/cureus.78799 Abstract Two patients who developed inflammatory arthritis following COVID-19 infection are presented, characterized by arthralgias, arthritis, and elevated markers of inflammation (C-reactive protein). Both patients […]

Brain Fog / Inflammation / Long-haul Disease / Long-term Effects / Symptoms Posted on: May 22, 2025May 20, 2025

Study: Long COVID ‘brain fog’ linked to inflammation, stress markers

Crystal Bonvillian, The Hill A new study indicates the debilitating “brain fog” suffered by millions of long COVID patients is linked to changes in the brain, including inflammation and an impaired ability […]

Deaths / Long-haul Disease / Long-term Effects / Near Death Experience Posted on: May 13, 2025May 11, 2025

A Long-haul Near Death Experience

John Murphy: To Die is Not What I Thought It Would Be! So, Long-haul COVID took me to another dimension. Twice, I almost died and both times experienced a separation […]

ACE2 Receptors / Acute Respiratory Syndrome / Cytokine Storm / Inflammasome / Inflammation / Long-term Effects / Muscle & Joints / Musculoskeletal / Respiratory Syndrome / Sex Related Outcome Posted on: April 19, 2025December 24, 2024

A Pilot Case-Control Study of Muscle and Bone Health Status in Patients Who Have Recovered From COVID-19 Infection

Shital Bhor • Dipali Ladkat • Nikhil Shah • Ketan Gondhalekar • Piyush Chaudhari • Anuradha Khadilkar, DOI: 10.7759/cureus.76283 Abstract Background: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), resulting from the novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), affects various bodily systems, including […]