By Josh Christenson WASHINGTON — Officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) discussed how to downplay concerns about COVID-19 vaccine efficacy and avoid “too precise” comparisons between the benefits of […]
Long Covid: Hormone Imbalances and/or Rather Complex Immune Dysregulations?
Christian A Koch, Journal of the Endocrine Society, Volume 8, Issue 5, May 2024, bvae043, https://doi.org/10.1210/jendso/bvae043 Commentary Approximately 5% of all individuals infected with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) […]
Long covid patients are desperate for treatments. These trials may help.
By Richard Sima The Washington Post Five years since the pandemic began, millions of people are still grappling with long COVID, even as new patients are joining their ranks. “Considering […]
mRNA Covid jabs often cause long-term thyroid damage, a big new study shows
The research adds to the mounting evidence mRNA vaccines can cause serious harm by turning the immune system against itself Alex Berenson People who took mRNA Covid vaccines were 30 […]
Serious harms of the COVID-19 vaccines: a systematic review
Peter C. Gøtzsche, Maryanne Demasi, doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.12.06.22283145 Abstract BACKGROUND Serious and severe harms of the COVID-19 vaccines have been downplayed or deliberately excluded by the study sponsors in high impact medical journals. METHODS Systematic review of […]
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 […]
Respiratory Viruses Like Flu Or COVID Could Cause ‘Sleeping’ Cancer Cells To Wake Up
StudyFinds Analysis, Steve Fink In A Nutshell AURORA, Colo. — Common respiratory infections like the flu and COVID-19 might jolt dormant cancer cells back to life in survivors, causing them to multiply […]
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 […]
Discovery Explains Long COVID Breathing Problems
UVA Health researchers have made a discovery about the immune system that explains breathing problems in Long COVID. From left: Alexandra Kadl MD; Sepideh Dolatshahi, PhD; Lyndsey Muehling, PhD; Judith […]
Immune system shifts may explain why some long COVID patients struggle to breathe
by University of Virginia Research from the University of Virginia School of Medicine has revealed crucial new insights into the immune systems of COVID-19 survivors, particularly those struggling with persistent breathing […]