by Trish Greenhalgh, Brendan Delaney and Manoj Sivan, The Conversation Credit: bbernard/Shutterstock Graham was a healthy 34-year-old until he developed COVID in July 2020. Along with his wife and children, he had a fever, a cough, breathlessness, profound fatigue and he lost his sense of smell. But instead of getting better like the rest of his...
Bridget M. Kuehn April 27, 2022 Even mundane tasks like making a meal can be exhausting for Louise Salant. “I’m totally wiped out,” said the 71-year-old former private music instructor with asthma who lives in New York City and has been coping with debilitating symptoms of fatigue, shortness of breath, and gastrointestinal symptoms since recovering from a...
COVID-19 may be primarily a respiratory illness, but its reach extends beyond the lungs. Since the pandemic’s onset, neurologists have realized that the pervasive disease can impact even our most precious organ—the brain. The neurologic and psychiatric complications of COVID-19 are incredibly diverse and sometimes persist long after patients recover from their initial infections. Studying...
by European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Transmission electron micrograph of SARS-CoV-2 virus particles, isolated from a patient. Image captured and color-enhanced at the NIAID Integrated Research Facility (IRF) in Fort Detrick, Maryland. Credit: NIAID New research to be presented at this year’s European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases (ECCMID) in...
by University of California, Los Angeles COVID-19. Credit: Pixabay New UCLA research finds that 30% of people treated for COVID-19 developed Post Acute Sequelae of COVID-19 (PASC), most commonly known as “Long COVID.” People with a history of hospitalization, diabetes, and higher body mass index were most likely to develop the condition, while those covered...
EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY IMAGE: THIS RESEARCH WAS LED BY ALEX SERAFINI (MIDDLE PHOTO, LEFT) AND JUSTIN FRERE (MIDDLE PHOTO, RIGHT) UNDER THE MENTORSHIP OF VENETIA ZACHARIOU FROM THE ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI (LEFT) AND BENJAMIN TENOEVER FROM NEW YORK UNIVERSITY (RIGHT). CREDIT: ALEX SERAFINI, ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI Philadelphia (April...
Heidi Ledford Researchers are studying the long-term effects of treatments given to people hospitalized with COVID-19. Credit: Diego Vara/Reuters In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, urologist and clinical epidemiologist Kari Tikkinen found his schedule full of cancelled surgeries, so he had some time to kill. “Do whatever you feel is most useful,” his...
25 March 2022 Researchers are trying to establish whether existing COVID-19 vaccines and treatments can prevent lasting symptoms. Heidi Ledford Researchers are studying the long-term effects of treatments given to people hospitalized with COVID-19.Credit: Diego Vara/Reuters In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, urologist and clinical epidemiologist Kari Tikkinen found his schedule full of...
A new study investigates the cognitive symptoms of long COVID. Alita/Stocksy, Photo, Stocksy Among the many lingering effects that health experts attribute to long COVID are problems with concentration and memory. More than three-quarters of people with long COVID reported such issues in a new study. Many individuals with these issues say that doctors do...
by University of Cambridge Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Seven in ten long COVID patients experience concentration and memory problems several months after the initial onset of their disease, with many performing worse than their peers on cognitive tests, according to new research from the University of Cambridge. Half of the patients in the study reported...
