by Leigh Beeson, University of Georgia Credit: Journal of Medicinal Chemistry (2023). DOI: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.3c00545 You’ve seen the commercial. The one that ominously tells you if you had chickenpox as a child, the virus that causes shingles is already inside you. It’s creepy, but it’s also a good way to prompt people to get the shingles vaccine. Unfortunately, the...
BY ALEXANDER TIN UPDATED ON: JULY 11, 2023 / 5:29 PM / CBS NEWS The analysis published Monday stems from the first year of a multiyear federal effort to study the virus as it has spread into American wildlife, spearheaded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, or APHIS. Scientists analyzed 8,830 samples...
By: Rob Harris Posted at 7:50 PM, Jul 06, 2023 and last updated 5:06 AM, Jul 07, 2023 DENVER — State health officials are warning residents to protect themselves against West Nile virus after finding mosquitoes carrying the virus in at least four Colorado counties so far. Tests of mosquitoes in Boulder, Delta, Weld, and...
Sara Novak July 03, 2023 Kate Whitley was petrified of COVID-19 from the beginning of the pandemic because she has Hashimoto disease, an autoimmune disorder that she knew put her at high risk for complications. She was right to be worried. Two months after contracting the infection in September 2022, the 42-year-old Nashville resident was diagnosed with...
PSYCHIATRY Inflammation from COVID can result in structural and functional brain changes. Updated June 20, 2023 | Reviewed by Davia Sills KEY POINTS Individuals with long COVID may experience a spectrum of clinical manifestations. The invasive properties of COVID can cause inflammation in the brain and central nervous system. Patients with long COVID can experience psychiatric symptoms. No...
By George Spencer UCSF Magazine Summer 2023 UCSF infectious disease specialist Michael Peluso, MD, who co-leads one of the world’s oldest studies of long COVID, discusses the condition’s mysteries. “There is no smoking gun,” he says. “If that were the case, we would have figured this out two years ago.” Michael Peluso, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine What...
MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY During the COVID-19 pandemic, many patients experienced a loss of taste and smell during and after being infected with SARS-CoV-2. A retrospective study by researchers at Massachusetts Eye and Ear, a member of the Mass General Brigham healthcare system, investigated the loss of olfactory and gustatory senses and estimated that about a...
by University College London Fatigue is the symptom that most significantly impacts the daily lives of long COVID patients, and can affect quality of life more than some cancers, finds a new study led by researchers at UCL and the University of Exeter. The research, published in BMJ Open , examines the impact of long COVID on the...
Lauran Neergaard May 26, 2023, 04:18 AM EDT WASHINGTON (AP) — About 10% of people appear to suffer long COVID after an omicron infection, a lower estimate than earlier in the pandemic, according to a study of nearly 10,000 Americans that aims to help unravel the mysterious condition. Early findings from the National Institutes of Health’s...
By WEILL CORNELL MEDICINE MAY 13, 2023 A recent study using electronic health records from the National Institutes of Health’s RECOVER Initiative, analyzed the persistence of symptoms after SARS-CoV-2 infection (long COVID) among diverse populations in the United States. The findings emphasized the need for further investigation to improve the diagnosis and treatment of the disease. The...
