The causes of long COVID, which disables millions, may come together in the brain and nervous system Stephani Sutherland on March 1, 2023 Tara Ghormley has always been an overachiever. She finished at the top of her class in high school, graduated summa cum laude from college and earned top honors in veterinary school. She went on […]
Blitshteyn worries about the low rate of full recovery she observed in a March 2021 case series of 20 patients with new-onset postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (a condition affecting blood flow that leads to dizziness, rapid heart rate, and fainting) and other autonomic disorders after Covid. While 60% of patients improved, only 15% returned to working full-time […]
Newcastle University MAY 11, 2023 Experts from Newcastle University found the nervous system of people with post-COVID fatigue was underactive in three key areas. Fatigue is one of the most common symptoms of long COVID. The breakthrough could lead to better treatment and tests to identify the condition and the team are already progressing the […]
Written by Hallie Levine April 4, 2023 Lisa McCorkell had a mild bout of COVID-19 in March 2020. Young and healthy, she assumed that she would bounce back quickly. But when her fatigue, shortness of breath, and brain fog persisted, she realized that she most likely had long COVID. “Back then, we as patients basically coined […]
By Lana Barhum November 16, 2022 Medically reviewed by Susan Russell, MD Interstitial lung disease (ILD) includes more than 200 conditions that cause inflammation and scarring of lung tissue.1 The damage done by interstitial lung disease makes it harder for oxygen to enter the bloodstream from the air sacs of the lungs. The prevalence of ILD in the US is […]
Alison M DeDent, Erica Farrand Correspondence to Dr Alison M DeDent, 513 Parnassus Ave, HSE 1314, Box 0111, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California CA 94143, USA; alison.dedent@ucsf.edu The COVID-19 Vaccine: A Historic Achievement with a Rare Adverse Event The first vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) was given emergency use listing by the World Health Organization (WHO) […]
J Clin Med. 2023 Aug; 12(15): 4940. Published online 2023 Jul 27. doi: 10.3390/jcm12154940 PMCID: PMC10419957 PMID: 37568341 Authors: Toru Arai, Conceptualization, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing, Funding acquisition,1,* Yu Kurahara, Resources, Writing – review & editing, Supervision,1,2 Mitsuhiro Moda, Resources, Writing – review & editing,3 Takehiko Kobayashi, Resources, Writing – review & editing,1 Yoshinobu Matsuda, Resources, Writing – review & editing,1,3 Tomoko Kagawa, Resources, Writing – review & editing,1,3 Reiko Sugawara, Resources, Writing – review & editing,3 Kazunari Tsuyuguchi, Writing […]
Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation, Apr 28, 2023 After being hospitalized for three months with COVID-19 and double pneumonia in 2020, Houston police officer Hito Bazan awoke one morning to discover that he couldn’t talk, eat, walk, or most importantly, breathe. Bazan was diagnosed with interstitial lung disease (ILD) known as pulmonary fibrosis (PF). Three years into […]
Athol U. Wells, Anand Devaraj, Sujal R. Desai Jan 26 2021https://doi.org/10.1148/radiol.2021204482 Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has now caused more than a million deaths worldwide. These deaths are often due to severe pulmonary involvement. In fatal cases, features of diffuse alveolar damage are a frequent finding. Many survivors with severe infection have long-term residual abnormalities on their thoracic […]
By EMILY JOSHU HEALTH REPORTER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM, 27 August 2023 The surgical N95 mask has been held up as the gold standard when it comes to protecting against Covid. But a study quietly re-shared by the National Institutes of Health in spring suggests the tight-fitting mask may expose users to dangerous levels of toxic chemicals. Researchers from Jeonbuk National […]