by Federico Graciano, Duke-NUS Medical School Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A virus that attacks heart tissue wreaks havoc by triggering an inflammatory response that can ultimately lead to cell death. Now, a team of scientists from Singapore and Canada has uncovered the role of a pathogen-detecting sensor in this response and demonstrated that targeting it...
by Goethe University Frankfurt am Main Visualization of heart inflammation by means of MRI: cardiologist Dr. Valentina Puntmann monitors a study participant at the Institute for Experimental and Translational Cardiovascular Imaging at University Hospital Frankfurt. Credit: Goethe University Frankfurt am Main After recovering from a SARS-CoV-2 infection, many people complain of persistent heart complaints, such...
by University of Glasgow Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain One in eight people who were hospitalized with COVID-19 between May 2020 and March 2021 were later diagnosed with myocarditis, or heart inflammation, according to major new research into the clinical long-term effects of COVID-19. The largest study of its kind to date was led by the...
Robert Towey@ROBERTTOWEYCNBC Dr. Ofer Levy, a voting member of the FDA’s vaccine advisory panel, spoke with CNBC’s “Closing Bell” after the committee unanimously recommended the agency approve J&J’s Covid boosters. The panel previously recommended the FDA approve boosters from Moderna and Pfizer for anyone 65 and older, among other high-risk groups. Some committee members have...
By Sally Robertson, B.Sc.Sep 16 2021 Researchers in the UK have assessed data from around the world to better understand the frequency and risk factors for myocarditis and pericarditis following immunization with messenger RNA (mRNA)-based vaccines designed to protect against coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). A signal of myocarditis (inflammation of the heart muscle) and pericarditis (inflammation...
Kim Dacey News Reporter One doctor said heart inflammation can be caused by certain vaccines — the smallpox vaccine was known to cause it. Now the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is investigating whether the mRNA COVID-19 shots do as well. “They haven’t definitively made a causal link. What they’ve seen now is an...
By Gretchen Vogel, Jennifer Couzin-Frankel Jun. 1, 2021 , 1:55 PM The COVID-19 vaccine made by Pfizer and BioNTech appears to put young men at elevated risk of developing a heart muscle inflammation called myocarditis, researchers in Israel say. In a report submitted today to the Israeli Ministry of Health, they conclude that between one in 3000...
Zachary BrennanSenior EditorThe European Medicines Agency’s safety committee said Friday that it’s aware of cases of inflammation of the heart muscle and inflammation of the membrane around the heart, mainly reported following vaccination with Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine, known in Europe as Comirnaty. “There is no indication that these cases are due to the vaccine,” the...
