COVID Increase Risk for Heart Attack, Stroke
People’s risk of heart attack or stroke skyrockets after a bout with the flu or COVID, a new evidence review says. Folks are four times more likely to have a heart attack…[...]
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Changes in Traumatic Brain Injury Patterns Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Single-Center Study in Brazil
Matheus Guidini Lima • Francisco Pires • Leopoldo Mandic Ferreira Furtado, et. al. ,DOI: 10.7759/cureus.93758 Abstract Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a significant worldwide public health concern and is among the top causes of death…[...]
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COVID Research Gaps and Future Directions: Standardization, Longitudinal Recovery, AI-Driven Biomarkers, and Policy Reform
Author: John Murphy, President, COVID-19 Long-haul Foundation Abstract Long COVID, or post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection (PASC), remains a poorly defined and under-researched condition affecting millions globally. Despite its prevalence,…[...]
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Why Long COVID Causes Shortness of Breath—and What We’re Learning to Do About It
Author: John Murphy Affiliation: COVID-19 Long-haul Foundation 🌬️ Introduction: When Breathing Doesn’t Bounce Back For many people recovering from COVID-19, the virus doesn’t simply go away. Weeks or months later,…[...]
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Long-term neurological and cognitive impact of COVID-19
Toka Elboraay, Mahmoud A. Ebada, Maged Elsayed, et. al., BMC Neurology volume 25, Article number: 250 (2025) Abstract Background Neuropsychiatric symptoms emerged early in the COVID-19 pandemic as a key feature of the virus, with research confirming…[...]
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Treatment of Long-haul Disease (COVID-19) Autoimmune Encephalitis With Plasmapheresis
Tony Kamel • William Toppen • Yasaman Salahmand, DOI: 10.7759/cureus.85150 Abstract In December 2021, a 58-year-old unvaccinated woman with a past medical history of obesity presented to an outside hospital with severe coronavirus disease 2019…[...]
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COVID-19’s hidden impact: Teen brains aged years in just months
By StudyFinds Staff SEATTLE — In the quiet bedrooms and virtual classrooms of the pandemic era, a hidden transformation was taking place. As teens navigated a world suddenly bereft of hallway chatter…[...]
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Scientists say they’ve finally discovered cause of long Covid… and its terrifying link to dementia
By EMILY JOSHU STERNE, SENIOR HEALTH REPORTER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM People struck by debilitating long Covid have unique changes to their brains which makes it harder to think and speak. A new…[...]
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COVID-19-Related Spontaneous Vertebral Artery Dissection: A Case Report
Thamer AlAifan • Aisha Halawani • Nora Shalabi •et. al., DOI: 10.7759/cureus.84265 Abstract Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), is associated with various vascular complications, including arterial dissections. This…[...]
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Chronic fatigue sufferers have different genes, study finds
Financial Times‘ Groundbreaking’ research finds ‘genetic signals’ for the long-stigmatized illness People with chronic fatigue syndrome have a different genetic profile to the general population, with DNA variations in their…[...]
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