CHARITÉ – UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN Patients who still have health problems three months after a SARS-CoV-2 infection, with symptoms ongoing for at least two months and no other explanation for these issues, are said to have post-COVID syndrome (PCS), also known as “long COVID.” Symptoms vary widely. Many people have problems with breathing, trouble concentrating, or...
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Research illuminates approaches for long-term hearing loss treatment
by Baylor College of Medicine Non-sensory cells of the neonatal mouse cochlea can be efficiently reprogrammed to a hair cell fate with combinations of Atoh1, Gfi1 and Pou4f3 transcription factors. Credit: eLife (2022). DOI: 10.7554/eLife.79712 About 430 million people around the world experience disabling hearing loss. In the United States, approximately 37.5 million adults report some trouble...
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The lasting misery of coronavirus long-haulers
A person who has recovered from COVID-19 takes part in a rehabilitation programme in Genoa, Italy. The lung scans were the first sign of trouble. In the early weeks of the coronavirus pandemic, clinical radiologist Ali Gholamrezanezhad began to notice that some people who had cleared their COVID-19 infection still had distinct signs of damage....