March 16, 2022 — At age 32, Carole Starr, a Maine-based teacher and professional musician, was in a car accident and had a concussion. “Everything in my life changed,” she says. She became extremely sensitive to sounds and had to give up playing in an orchestra and singing. She also developed problems with her thinking … Read more
The Queen still has cold-like symptoms from Covid, but will continue working on light duties. Source link
Prof Karim acknowledged that Omicron’s high transmissibility was causing temporary problems for countries like the US, but, citing South Africa’s own experience, he said “the good thing is that because [the infection rate] has gone up that fast, it’ll go down that fast too, so the pressure on hospitals will be much less”. Source link
Dr Angelique Coetzee, the South African doctor who first spotted the new Covid variant Omicron, says the patients seen so far have had “extremely mild symptoms” – but more time is needed before we know the seriousness of the disease for vulnerable people. Watch her tell the BBC’s Andrew Marr how patients in South Africa … Read more
One expert not part of the study, Dr. Nicholas Kman, pointed out that even vaccinated patients can get a mild case of COVID-19. “We also know that when the immune system is compromised, like in severe obesity, we don’t mount as good a response to the vaccine,” said Kman, an emergency medicine physician at … Read more
By Will Stone Monday, September 20, 2021 (Kaiser News) — The test results that hot day in early August shouldn’t have surprised me — all the symptoms were there. A few days earlier, fatigue had enveloped me like a weighted blanket. I chalked it up to my weekend of travel. Next, a headache clamped down … Read more
Parents should be reassured by the findings, Bristol doctors say, following a small study. Source link
Winter viruses are flourishing as more people mix, and a doctor’s chief says A&Es are struggling to cope. Source link
Researchers are still analysing whether injecting two different vaccines leads to better protection. Source link
By Robert Preidt HealthDay Reporter WEDNESDAY, March 3, 2021 (HealthDay News) — A clinical trial evaluating the use of convalescent plasma in patients with mild to moderate COVID-19 symptoms has been halted because the treatment didn’t benefit them, according to the U.S. National Institutes of Health. Convalescent plasma (also called “survivor’s plasma”) is derived … Read more