by Duke University Medical Center Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The reason some people fail to recover their sense of smell after COVID-19 is linked to an ongoing immune assault on olfactory nerve cells and an associated decline in the number of those cells, a team of scientists led by Duke Health report. The finding, publishing online...
by Harish Narasimhan, The Conversation Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Viruses that cause respiratory diseases like the flu and COVID-19 can lead to mild to severe symptoms within the first few weeks of infection. These symptoms typically resolve within a few more weeks, sometimes with the help of treatment if severe. However, some people go on...
By Pooja Toshniwal PahariaApr 18 2022 Reviewed by Danielle Ellis, B.Sc. In a recent study published in Reviews in Medical Virology, researchers reviewed the mechanisms of muscle tissue injury, aggravating conditions, and associated sequelae in long coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19). Study: Muscle dysfunction in the long coronavirus disease 2019 syndrome: Pathogenesis and clinical approach. Image Credit: Anatomy...
by The Physiological Society Credit: CC0 Public Domain Women with long COVID experience heart rate irregularities in response to physical exertion, and this has the potential to constrain not only exercise tolerance but free-living physical activity. In perspective of the greater prevalence of age-related physical disability among women, compared to men, these findings highlight a...
