Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain One of China’s top health experts has warned of a surge in COVID-19 cases, state media said Sunday, in the wake of the government’s decision to abandon its hardline coronavirus strategy. Shops and restaurants in Beijing are deserted as the country awaits a spike in infections following the decision to reduce...
by Karolinska Institutet Schematic illustration of mechanisms underlying SARS-CoV-2-induced adipose atrophy and weight loss. SARS-CoV-2 infection triggers dyspnea and pathological changes in the infected lung tissues, including pulmonary edema, inflammation, and obstruction of pulmonary alveoli. These pathological alterations induce local hypoxia in the lung tissue and systemic hypoxia in other tissues. Hypoxia serves as a...
by Radiological Society of North America Credit: CC0 Public Domain COVID-19 infection is associated with increased liver stiffness, a sign of possible long-term liver injury, according to the results of a new study being presented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA). “Our study is part of emerging evidence...
Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc. Nov 28 2022 Just as bricks are key components in constructing a building, molecules known as amino acids are essential components in constructing proteins in the body. Recently, researchers in Japan investigated the role of a particular group of amino acids, known as D-amino acids, in the progression of viruses...
By Neha Mathur Nov 16 2022 Reviewed by Danielle Ellis, B.Sc. In a recent study published in the Nature Communications journal, researchers monitored the changing symptom profiles associated with different severe acute respiratory syndrome CoV-2 (SARS-CoV-2) variants, especially Omicron subvariants BA.1 and BA.2. Study: Variant-specific symptoms of COVID-19 in a study of 1,542,510 adults in England. Image Credit:...
By Michael Irving November 15, 2022 Researchers have developed a new imaging technique that can track viruses before they infect cells Depositphotos Scientists at Duke University have created a real-time video that captures the frantic movements of a single virus as it tries to infect a cell. The video shows a part of the process...
by NYU Langone Health Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The death of a loved one, financial or food insecurity, or a newly developed disability were some of the strongest predictors of whether a patient hospitalized for COVID-19 would experience symptoms of long COVID a year later, a new study finds. Led by researchers from NYU Grossman...
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-COLUMBIA IMAGE: VIRUS CREDIT: UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI COLUMBIA, Mo. – Monkeypox has infected more than 77,000 people in more than 100 countries worldwide, and — similar to COVID-19 — mutations have enabled the virus to grow stronger and smarter, evading antiviral drugs and vaccines in its mission to infect more people. Now, a...
by Intermountain Healthcare An Intermountain Healthcare ICU nurse cares for a patient with COVID. A new study by researchers at Intermountain Healthcare in Salt Lake City finds that the most commonly prescribed class of anti-depressants does not help reduce the severity of illness or even death for people who get COVID, as once thought. Credit:...
By Jamie Gumbrecht, CNN Published 4:10 PM EST, Sun November 6, 2022 Paxlovid, the antiviral pill that reduces the risk of hospitalization and death from Covid-19, also reduces the risk of long Covid, according to a new study by researchers at the US Department of Veterans Affairs. The study, posted online as a preprint on Saturday, analyzed...
