Authors: Alicia Chen, Andrew Go Lee, MD, Nagham Al-Zubidi, MD, Noor Laylani, Pamela Davila-Siliezar American College of Opthalmology Optic neuropathy has been reported in COVID19 and the mechanisms remain ill defined although several hypotheses have been proposed including inflammatory cytokines and a transient hypercoagulable state. Many authors believe that the process is ischemic optic neuropathy (ION) and both anterior […]
Although COVID-19 is a respiratory disease, it can also cause rashes. What a COVID-19 rash looks like can vary, and it can occur anywhere on the skin and in the mouth. Other symptoms of COVID-19 include fever, fatigue, cough, and shortness of breath. However, not everyone experiences all of these. For some, a rash may be one of the […]
by Lilly Matson, University of New South Wales AUGUST 16, 2023 Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology (2023). DOI: 10.1002/acn3.51825 Researchers from University of New South Wales Sydney and St. Vincent’s Hospital have identified a key pathway, involved in inflammation, which appears to be activated in people with long COVID who have symptoms of “brain fog.” Scientists from […]
BY JULIA MOORE VOGEL In a world where most pandemic safety protocols have evaporated, where is the sense of urgency to treat, or at the very least support, people with long COVID? Early in the pandemic, we saw significant mobilization of the healthcare infrastructure across the world to determine how to prevent and treat COVID-19, leading […]
Authors: Greg Iacurci CNBC KEY POINTS Sam Norpel used to present regular financial updates to C-suite executives.Now, unpredictable bouts of broken, staccato speech make that impossible for the former e-commerce executive.Despite being up to date with vaccines and boosters, Norpel, 48, got Covid-19 in December 2021, when the highly transmissible omicron variant was fueling record […]
JAN 14, 2024 Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times The top U.S. public health agency must disclose information provided by people who experienced problems following COVID-19 vaccination, a federal court has ruled. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is being ordered to produce 7.8 million free-text entries from V-safe, one […]
Khalid Al Sulaiman, MBA, BCCCP, BCNSP, FCCM https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5547-2043, Ohoud Aljuhani, PharmD, […], and Ghassan Alghamdi, MD Abstract Doxycycline has revealed potential effects in animal studies to prevent thrombosis and reduce mortality. However, less is known about its antithrombotic role in patients with COVID-19. Our study aimed to evaluate doxycycline’s impact on clinical outcomes in critically ill patients with COVID-19. A multicenter retrospective cohort study […]
NIH-funded research effort identifies most common symptoms, potential subgroups, and initial symptom-based scoring system – with aim of improving future diagnostics and treatment. Initial findings from a study of nearly 10,000 Americans, many of whom had COVID-19, have uncovered new details about long COVID, the post-infection set of conditions that can affect nearly every tissue […]
Research suggests that long-term smell loss is linked to an ongoing immune response in the nose By DUKE HEALTH NEWS OFFICE Research This article is part of Harvard Medical School’s continuing coverage of COVID-19. New research has provided important insight into why some people fail to fully regain their sense of smell even months after recovering from COVID-19. […]
Findings are consistent with long-haul symptoms following the 2005 SARS epidemic Sam Roth, sroth@acc.org, WASHINGTON Many long-haul COVID-19 patients have chronic fatigue syndrome and other breathing issues months after their initial COVID-19 diagnosis, according to study in JACC: Heart Failure, which is the first of its kind to identify a correlation between long-haul COVID-19 and chronic […]