Should you be examining your tongue? Here’s how to tell if it’s COVID tongue and how to treat it. By Korin Miller September 22, 2023; Medically reviewed by Michael Menna, DO HEALTH You may have heard of COVID-19 causing loss of taste and smell, COVID toes, and unusual skin rashes, but did you know COVID can affect […]
Kiran Thapaliya, 1 , 2 , * Sonya Marshall-Gradisnik, 1 Markus Barth, 2 , 3 Natalie Eaton-Fitch, 1 and Leighton Barnden 1 Front Neurosci. 2023; 17: 1125208. Published online 2023 Mar 2. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2023.1125208 PMCID: PMC10017877 PMID: 36937672 Abstract Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) and long COVID patients have overlapping neurological, autonomic, pain, and post-exertional symptoms. We compared volumes of brainstem regions for 10 ME/CFS (CCC or ICC criteria), 8 long COVID (WHO […]
SEP 27, 2023 Authored by Zachary Stieber The Epoch Times False and misleading information about COVID-19 vaccines and heart inflammation is being spread widely, including by doctors. That includes claims that data clearly show myocarditis, or heart inflammation, is more prevalent after COVID-19 infection when compared to COVID-19 vaccination. “Teen boys have been up to […]
Scientists can now show key differences in the blood of those who recover from Covid — and those who don’t. Sept. 25, 2023, 11:01 AM EDT By Erika Edwards NBC Health More than three years into the pandemic, the millions of people who have suffered from long Covid finally have scientific proof that their condition is […]
BLOOD SPOTLIGHT| APRIL 6, 2023 Douglas B. Cines, Andreas Greinacher Blood (2023) 141 (14): 1659–1665. https://doi.org/10.1182/blood.2022017696 Within the first months of the COVID-19 vaccination campaign, previously healthy recipients who developed severe thrombosis (often cerebral and/or splanchnic vasculature) and thrombocytopenia typically after adenoviral vector-based vaccination were identified. Similarities between this syndrome, vaccine-induced immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia (VITT), and heparin-induced […]
David Sulzer, Angelo Antonini, Valentina Leta, Anna Nordvig, Richard J. Smeyne, James E. Goldman, Osama Al-Dalahmah, Luigi Zecca, Alessandro Sette, Luigi Bubacco, Olimpia Meucci, Elena Moro, Ashley S. Harms, Yaqian Xu, Stanley Fahn & K. Ray Chaudhuri npj Parkinson’s Disease volume 6, Article number: 18 (2020) Cite this article Abstract This Viewpoint discusses insights from basic science and clinical perspectives on coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)/severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection in the brain, with a particular focus […]
SEPTEMBER 12, 2023 by Maria Fernanda Ziegler, FAPESP Medical Express An article published in npj Aging reveals that natural production of auto-antibodies increases with age, and that infection by SARS-CoV-2 can exacerbate production of auto-antibodies relating to auto-immune diseases, helping to explain why aging increases the chances of developing severe COVID-19. The study also discovered some of the factors that […]
Kenji Hashimoto, Molecular Psychiatry (2023) Published: 04 July 2023 Abstract The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection has resulted in a serious public health burden worldwide. In addition to respiratory, heart, and gastrointestinal symptoms, patients infected with SARS-CoV-2 experience a number of persistent neurological and psychiatric symptoms, known as […]
By Rich Haridy January 04, 2023 Source: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases A study found traces of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in over 80 different sites in the body In the most comprehensive autopsy tissue study conducted to date, researchers have found traces of the SARS-CoV-2 virus throughout the entire body, from the brain and the […]
Marcel S Woo 1, Mohsin Shafiq 2, Antonia Fitzek 3, Matthias Dottermusch 2, Hermann Altmeppen 2, Behnam Mohammadi 2, Christina Mayer 1, Lukas C Bal 1, Lukas Raich 1, Jakob Matschke 2, Susanne Krasemann 2, Susanne Pfefferle 4, Thomas Theo Brehm 5 6, Marc Lütgehetmann 4, Julia Schädler 3, Marylyn M Addo 5 6 7, Julian Schulze Zur Wiesch 5 6, Benjamin Ondruschka 3, Manuel A Friese # 8, Markus Glatzel # 9 PMID: 37452829 PMCID: PMC10412500 DOI: 10.1007/s00401-023-02612-x Abstract Dysautonomia has substantially impacted acute COVID-19 severity as well as symptom burden after recovery from COVID-19 (long COVID), yet the underlying causes remain […]