Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Drug firm AstraZeneca on Friday announced positive results from a trial of a treatment for COVID-19 symptoms. The drug, made from a combination of two antibodies, was initially developed as a treatment for those who had already been exposed to the disease. A new trial of 5,197 participants who had not been...
by Brendan McMullan, Philip Britton, The Conversation Credit: Shutterstock The Delta variant is more infectious and is leading to more COVID-19 cases in children than previous strains. Many parents are wondering whether Delta is making kids sicker, and how to care for their children if they get COVID. It can be a nerve-racking time for parents, but there...
by E.c. Barrett, Cornell University Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Even with federal provisions aimed at protecting workers, instances of sick people being unable to take time off tripled during the pandemic and fewer than half of workers were aware that emergency COVID-19 sick leave was available, new Cornell research has found. In the study, “Awareness and...
by Johns Hopkins University Two cells (darker color) in a cluster being attacked by free radicals (red molecules) and undergoing oxidative stress. Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers suggest that oxidative stress may cause the similar-type symptoms seen in both long COVID and ME/CFS (formerly known as chronic fatigue syndrome). Credit: M.E. Newman, Johns Hopkins Medicine, National Cancer...
by Robert C Hughes, Emma Duncan, Michael Absoud, Sunil Bhopal, The Conversation COVID-19 isn’t the only infection that can cause lingering symptoms. Credit: Image Point Fr/Shutterstock When COVID-19 arrived, it quickly became clear that older age was the biggest risk factor for developing severe disease. Indeed, there are few diseases for which age is so clearly the...
Berkeley Lovelace Jr Data from Israel on the effectiveness of Covid-19 vaccines over time is causing U.S. health leaders to rethink their position on vaccine booster shots in the U.S., NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins said Tuesday. Israel released new data Monday showing a reduction in the effectiveness of Pfizer’s Covid vaccine against severe illness...
by Zeke Miller A medic from Israel’s Magen David Adom emergency service administers a booster shot of the coronavirus vaccine to a woman in Tel Aviv, Israel, Saturday, Aug. 14, 2021. The country that had appeared to put the coronavirus pandemic behind it a few months ago after a world-leading vaccine drive is now re-imposing...
by Trevor Kilpatrick, Steven Petrou, The Conversation Credit: Shutterstock Scientists are becoming more and more concerned with the emergence of a syndrome termed “long COVID,” where a significant percentage of sufferers of COVID-19 experience long-lasting symptoms. Studies suggest symptoms remain for approximately 5-24% of confirmed COVID cases, at least three to four months after infection. The risk of long COVID...
The brains of people who died from COVID-19 were remarkably similar to the brains of people who die from neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, showing inflammation and disrupted circuitry, researchers report. “The brains of patients who died from severe COVID-19 showed profound molecular markers of inflammation, even though those patients didn’t have any reported clinical...
Do you need to have your teeth cleaned or a cavity filled? Go ahead. Dental treatment won’t put you at risk for contracting COVID-19, a new study affirms. “Getting your teeth cleaned does not increase your risk for COVID-19 infection any more than drinking a glass of water from the dentist’s office does,” said lead author Purnima...
