BY JOCELYN SOLIS-MOREIRA | PUBLISHED AUG 10, 2022 5:00 PM New federal support for long COVID research aims to shed more light on troubling and variable long-term conditions. Heike Trautmann/Unsplash Two years into the pandemic, and political leaders are finally taking strides towards understanding the complexities of long COVID. The Biden administration released two reports last week on August 3...
Hallie Levine July 20, 2022 New Yorker Lyss Stern came down with COVID-19 at the beginning of the pandemic, in March 2020. She ran a 103-degree fever for 5 days straight and was bedridden for several weeks. Yet symptoms such as a persistent headache and tinnitus, or ringing in her ears, lingered. “Four months later, I still couldn’t walk...
by John Donne Potter, The Conversation Credit: Shutterstock/Elizaveta Galitckaia The latest omicron variant BA.5 is fast becoming dominant worldwide, including in New Zealand and Australia. As it continues to surge, reinfection will become increasingly common and this in turn means more people will develop long COVID. The two most concerning aspects of long COVID are its high...
by University of Otago Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Researchers have uncovered how post-viral fatigue syndromes, including Long COVID, become life-changing diseases and why patients suffer frequent relapses. Arising commonly from a viral infection, Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS), is known to cause brain-centered symptoms of neuroinflammation, loss of homeostasis, brain fog, lack of refreshing sleep,...
Nancy A. Melville May 31, 2022 NEW ORLEANS – Patients experiencing brain fog and other persistent symptoms of long COVID show significant deficits on neuropsychiatric testing that correspond with prior acute COVID-19 infection, adding to mounting evidence of the significant toll the chronic condition can have on mental health. “Many clinicians have observed the symptoms...
by Sharon Theimer, Mayo Clinic Credit: Shutterstock Long COVID syndrome, also known as post-COVID, is more than fatigue and shortness of breath. Symptoms such as headaches, brain fog and ringing in the ears have been reported, and recently, physicians are seeing more patients with gastrointestinal problems. Greg Vanichkachorn, M.D., director of Mayo Clinic’s COVID Activity...
JUNE 20, 2022 by Jocelyn Solis-Moreira People continue to experience neurological problems six months after recovering from a COVID-19 infection, finds a recent study from the University of California San Diego. In fact, scientists say most coronavirus long-haulers battle brain-related issues. The findings are part of a long-term study tracking the progression of neurological symptoms...
They span three continents, but a trio of researchers who’ve never met share a singular focus made vital by the still-raging pandemic: deciphering the causes of Long Covid and figuring out how to treat it. Almost 2 years ago in Italy, pediatric infectious disease doctor Danilo Buonsenso, who works at Gemelli University Hospital, started to...
by La Trobe University Output from amyloid assembly prediction software for SARS-CoV-2 ORF6 and ORF10 sequences. a, b Outputs from amyloid predicting algorithm ZIPPER identifying hexapeptide fragments predicted to form steric zippers nucleating the assembly of amyloid fibrils. Hexapeptides with Rosetta energies below −23 kcal mol−1 are predicted to be highly amyloidogenic and are shown with...
Nancy A. Melville May 31, 2022 NEW ORLEANS – Patients experiencing brain fog and other persistent symptoms of long COVID show significant deficits on neuropsychiatric testing that correspond with prior acute COVID-19 infection, adding to mounting evidence of the significant toll the chronic condition can have on mental health. “Many clinicians have observed the symptoms...
