Aug. 3, 2022 – When Joel Fram woke up on the morning of March 12, 2020, he had a pretty good idea why he felt so lousy. He lives in New York, where the first wave of the coronavirus was tearing through the city. “I instantly knew,” says the 55-year-old Broadway music director. It was … Read more
April 5, 2022 – The Biden administration announced Tuesday a massive federal effort to better understand, diagnose, and treat the crippling effects of long COVID. The National Research Action Plan on Long COVID will gather experts from various agencies, including the Department of Defense and the Department of Veterans Affairs, to expand existing long-COVID clinics … Read more
Feb. 9, 2022 — People who have had COVID-19 have an increased risk of heart disease 12 months after infection, a danger that is substantial and spans an array of heart and vasculars disorders, a deep dive into federal data suggests. “I went into this thinking that this is most likely happening in people to … Read more
Feb. 8, 2022 — It’s a story of promise at a time of urgent need. Scientists are optimistic about new evidence into what is causing long COVID, a panel of research experts brought together by the New York State Department of Health said. They proposed many theories on what might be driving long COVID. A … Read more
Feb. 7, 2022 — Jamie Cantrell was the picture of health when she contracted COVID-19. The 44-year-old marketing executive from Lewisville, TX, had been an athlete all her life and was training for a half marathon when a headache like no other prompted her to take a test. Even after a positive COVID-19 test result, … Read more
Feb. 4, 2022 — Long COVID continues to be a moving target — continuously evolving and still surprising doctors and patients who have sometimes incapacitating long-term symptoms. Little about the disorder seems predictable at this point. People can have long COVID after asymptomatic, mild, or severe COVID-19, for example. And when a person gets long … Read more
Nov. 18, 2021 — We have so much to learn from the COVID-19 pandemic and Sanjay Gupta, MD, CNN’s chief medical correspondent in his new book, World War C: Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic and How to Prepare for the Next One, urges us to get prepared now for future pandemics. Gupta uses the clever … Read more
For many survivors of COVID-19, problems, sometimes severe, linger. Medicine is racing to catch up with the elusive diagnosis and treatment. Source link
July 30, 2021 — Infection from COVID-19 may have a substantial negative effect on intelligence, according to a new large-scale study from the United Kingdom, findings that are consistent with reports of “brain fog” among long-haul COVID-19 patients. Researchers analyzed data from 81,337 people who took the Great British Intelligence Test in 2020. Of … Read more
June 30, 2021 — Thoughts of getting sick were the furthest thing from Paul Garner’s mind when symptoms of COVID-19 upended his life. “It knocked me sideways,” says Garner, a public health doctor specializing in infectious diseases. He says he never dreamed he would become a high-profile COVID-19 case documenting his struggle for a medical … Read more