An Explosion of ME/CFS in the US + The Real Difference RECOVER May Make In Long COVID

June 18, 2025 | John Murphy | Leave a Comment

An Explosion of ME/CFS in the US + The Real Difference RECOVER May Make In Long COVID

by Cort Johnson The Recover Initiative produced an important paper! So, it is possible… 🙂 That’s a bit tongue-in-cheek. As RECOVER has started to move out of its electronic health care studies –…[...]

June 17, 2025 | John Murphy | Leave a Comment

Long COVID patients show brain swelling linked to memory and concentration problems, study finds

abc.net.au/news/long-covid-brain-swelling-memory-problems-research-queensland/104917572 Long COVID patients exhibit swelling in an area of the brain linked to memory problems, poor concentration and delayed responses during conversations, researchers have found. Based on high-powered scanning,…[...]

June 9, 2025 | John Murphy | Leave a Comment

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…[...]

May 14, 2025 | John Murphy | Leave a Comment

Unmasking the Long-Term Effects of COVID-19 With a Focus on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: A Community-Based Study From India

Arti Gupta • Vishnu Rajan • Rajeev Aravindakshan • Pulla Sirisha, DOI: 10.7759/cureus.80597 Abstract Background The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the enduring health burden of long COVID, scientifically termed the postacute sequelae of severe acute respiratory syndrome…[...]

April 17, 2025 | John Murphy | Leave a Comment

Long COVID Rehabilitation: What We Know Now

Key findings guide clinical recommendations regarding exercise, respiratory training, and cognitive therapy., Don L. Goldenberg, MD, Despite the marked decline in cases of COVID-19 during the past few years, there…[...]

April 7, 2025 | John Murphy | Leave a Comment

Fatigue and symptom-based clusters in post COVID-19 patients: a multicenter, prospective, observational cohort study

Merel E. B. Cornelissen, Lizan D. Bloemsma, , et. al., Journal of Translational Medicine volume 22, Article number: 191 (2024) Abstract Background In the Netherlands, the prevalence of post COVID-19 condition is estimated at 12.7% at 90–150 days…[...]

February 13, 2025 | John Murphy | Leave a Comment

The first major set of genetic associations found in long COVID

PrecisionLife’s Dr Sayoni Das, a computational biologist who leads the research and development of bioinformatics pipelines that generate biological insights from PrecisionLife’s core technology and support drug discovery programs, details…[...]

February 3, 2025 | John Murphy | Leave a Comment

A discovery in the muscles of long COVID patients may explain exercise troubles

By Will Stone, NPR Hit the gym. Get back in shape. That's what many patients with long COVID are told when they talk of the crushing fatigue that envelops them after…[...]

January 24, 2025 | John Murphy | Leave a Comment

Genetic risk factors for severe and fatigue dominant long COVID and commonalities with ME/CFS identified by combinatorial analysis

Krystyna Taylor, Matthew Pearson, , et. al. , Journal of Translational Medicine volume 21, Article number: 775 Abstract Background Long COVID is a debilitating chronic condition that has affected over 100 million people globally. It is…[...]

January 18, 2025 | John Murphy | Leave a Comment

A Root Cause for ME/CFS, Long Covid, and Post-Vaccine COVID-19 Syndrome: Damaged Pituitary Glands

Dr. Bruno Paiva and Mr. Manuel Ruiz-Pablos, Hypocortisolemic ASIA: a vaccine- and chronic infection–induced syndrome behind the origin of Long Covid and myalgic encephalomyelitis (Frontiers in Immunology “The Solve Ramsay Research Grant…[...]