By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS In the winter months, it seems few are safe from some kind of illness — flu, COVID-19, norovirus, colds. While many of the germs that cause this misery can circulate […]
Long COVID Seems to Be a Brain Injury, Scientists Discover
2024, By DAVID NIELD, Science Alert Some form of brain injury could be behind the symptoms reported by those with long COVID, according to a new study, and adapting tests and […]
Evidence on Long COVID Diagnosis, Risk, Symptoms, and Functional Impact for Patients
News Release | 2024, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine WASHINGTON — A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine presents conclusions about Long COVID diagnosis, symptoms, and […]
Temporal trajectories of COVID-19 symptoms in adults with 22 months follow-up in a prospective cohort study in Norway
Merete Ellingjord-Dale, Anders Nygaard, Nathalie C Støer, et. al. BioRx 05/2024 Abstract Objectives We aimed to describe the trajectories of cognitive and physical symptoms before, during, and after a positive- or negative SARS-CoV-2 test and in […]
Pandemic health consequences: Grasping the long COVID tail
Authors: Kieran L. Quinn , Chaim M. Bell Published: January 25, 2022 Emerging evidence suggests that approximately 10% of people who survive Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) will have lingering symptoms that negatively […]
Colchicine could cut COVID-19 deaths – Israeli scientist
Authors: By MAAYAN JAFFE-HOFFMAN Published: DECEMBER 14, 2021 17:37 An ancient Greek drug derived from the saffron plant could improve the treatment of people with severe COVID-19 and reduce the COVID mortality rate by as […]
Risk of severe COVID-19 disease with ACE inhibitors and angiotensin receptor blockers: cohort study including 8.3 million people
Julia Hippisley-Cox1, Duncan Young2,3, Carol Coupland4, Keith M Channon5, Pui San Tan6, David A Harrison7, Kathryn Rowan8, Paul Aveyard6, Ian D Pavord9, Peter J Watkinson5,10 Correspondence to Prof Julia Hippisley-Cox, Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 […]
How to combat ‘COVID fatigue’: Medical experts on what works — and doesn’t
Authors: Meredith Deliso “Throughout pandemics, the psychological footprint is often way bigger than the medical footprint,” Dr. Claude Mellins, a medical psychologist who co-leads a pandemic initiative called CopeColumbia for […]