Patients hospitalized within 30 days after infection face 29% higher death risk in 3rd year.News Published: May 31, 2024 | Original story from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis Credit: Olga Kononenko / Unsplash. New findings on long COVID — long-term effects on health experienced by many who have had COVID-19 — present...
Written by Cheyenne Buckingham, BS | Reviewed by Patricia Pinto-Garcia, MD, MPH Published on January 9, 2023 Key takeaways: Green mucus has long been said to be a sign of an infection, but that’s not actually true in some cases.Mucus plays an important role in the body. It works with your immune system to protect...
by University of California, San Francisco Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public DomainThe COVID-19 virus can persist in the blood and tissue of patients for more than a year after the acute phase of the illness has ended, according to new research from UC San Francisco that offers potential clues to why some people develop long COVID. The scientists...
Peer-Reviewed PublicationUNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE Problems with iron levels in the blood and the body’s ability to regulate this important nutrient as a result of SARS-CoV-2 infection could be a key trigger for long COVID, new research has discovered. The discovery not only points to possible ways to prevent or treat the condition, but could help...
by Elana Gotkine The percentage of Mycoplasma pneumoniae infections decreased during the pandemic, but has increased since September 2023, according to research published in the Feb. 22 issue of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. Chris Edens, Ph.D., from the CDC in Atlanta, and colleagues used data from...
by LaTina Emerson, Georgia State University Therapeutic treatment of lethal CDV infection in ferrets. Ferrets were infected with a lethal challenge of CDV and treated with GHP-88309, ERDRP-0519, or therapeutic vaccination. a Schematic of the study design. Ferrets were infected with wild-type recCDV-5804p and monitored for 6 weeks. Symbols in the different boxes show clinical presentation...
By Paul McClure Researchers have found that RSV, very common in children, can also infect and damage nerve tissue Depositphotos Thought only to infect the respiratory tract, new research has proved for the first time that the respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), very common in young children, can also penetrate nerve cells directly, triggering excessive inflammation and...
Gut bacteria are stronger together when it comes to preventing infectious diseases. When a large, diverse community of gut bacteria compete with pathogens for nutrients, the pathogens may not have enough fuel to colonize and invade the body, according to a new study in Science. The more microbes there are, the more different nutrients they’re...
by Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard 3D rendering of a B cell. Credit: Blausen.com staff (2014). “Medical gallery of Blausen Medical 2014”. WikiJournal of Medicine 1 (2). DOI:10.15347/wjm/2014.010. ISSN 2002-4436. CC BY-SA 4.0 B cell deficiency is a common condition that can result either from immunosuppressant drugs used to treat autoimmune disease or...
Researchers from Charité and McGill University quantify association between Helicobacter pylori and Alzheimer’s diseasePeer-Reviewed Publication CHARITÉ – UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN Infection with the stomach bacterium Helicobacter pylori could increase the risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease: In people over the age of 50, the risk following a symptomatic infection can be an average of 11 percent higher,...
