Jesse Ehrenfeld, an anesthesiologist at a Wisconsin hospital, asked a patient about to have heart surgery if she would consent to a blood transfusion should it become necessary. It’s a standard question. But the patient refused. It was 2021, and the COVID-19 vaccine had become publicly available only a few […]
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Match Day 2024: Pritzker’s ‘COVID class’ takes the next step forward
Ida Noyes Hall fell silent at 11 a.m. on Friday as 91 students at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine simultaneously tore open their envelopes to learn which hospitals they matched with for their residency training. The room, heavy with nerves, erupted with joyful screams. Students popped out […]
Drug design at the atomic level to thwart COVID-19
Stanford researchers aim to get ahead of coronavirus evolution by designing antiviral drugs that continue to work on Paxlovid-resistant mutants. (Image credit: Getty Images) Although COVID-19 has faded from the headlines, SARS-CoV-2 – the coronavirus behind the pandemic – is still rampantly infecting people around the world. Public health officials […]
Pfizer bets on cancer drugs to recover from COVID business declines
Pfizer is pushing to be more involved in cancer drugs after a turbulent year marked by the rapid decline of its COVID business. During a four-hour investor event last week, Pfizer pushed its initative to “accelerate breakthroughs that help people with cancer globally live better and longer lives,” according to […]
Opinion | Long covid treatment on horizon after chronic fatigue syndrome study
Long before the coronavirus pandemic brought about persistent symptoms known as long covid, an eerily similar condition was disabling thousands of Americans. Previously healthy individuals would go from living normal and active lives to being so fatigued that they could hardly get out of bed. Many had a preceding viral […]
COVID Booster Shots Reshape Immune Memory
Credit: matejmo/Getty Images T cell populations can change significantly after each COVID mRNA vaccine or booster, a new study from Japan demonstrates. The study, which included about 40 patients and used TCR sequencing, shows certain spike epitopes can become immunodominant. In addition, the team found intra-epitope shifts of vaccine-responding immune […]
A call for better diagnosis and treatment
In a recent review published in the journal Nature Reviews Microbiology, a group of authors summarized recent advancements in understanding long coronavirus disease (COVID) ‘s mechanisms, impacts, and research needs for better diagnostics and treatments. Review: Long COVID: major findings, mechanisms and recommendations Background Long COVID, affecting over 65 million globally, […]
COVID-19 Increases Risk for Autoimmune Inflammatory Rheumatic Disease
Credit: Puwadol Jaturawutthichai/Shutterstock A large study led by Kyung Hee University in Seoul shows that infection with SARS-CoV-2 significantly increases the risk of developing autoimmune inflammatory rheumatic disease for up to a year after infection. The research, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, shows that COVID-19 increased the risk […]
Research suggests COVID-19 affects brain age and IQ score
Ziyad Al-Aly is chief of research and development at VA St. Louis Health Care System and a clinical epidemiologist at Washington University in St. Louis. From the very early days of the pandemic, brain fog emerged as a significant health condition that many experience after COVID-19. Brain fog is a colloquial term […]
CDC Shortens COVID-19 Isolation Period
Key Takeaways The CDC says people with COVID no longer need to isolate for five days. They can leave their homes after being fever-free for 24 hours without the help of medications if symptoms are improving. People with COVID-19 no longer need to isolate for five days before returning to […]
COVID-19 antiviral treatment should be taken for longer, says study
Viral and spike antibody dynamics in molnupiravir (purple) and Usual Care (gray) arms. a) Median viral load ±95%CI with time, below limit of quantification (BLOQ) measures substituted with LOQ/2 for molnupiravir (n = 253) and Usual Care (n = 324) compared with a Mann–Whitney test. b) Viral load with time showing multivariable linear viral […]
Long COVID research hasn’t yet produced results, as millions suffer
More than a year after catching COVID-19, Sawyer Blatz still can’t practice his weekly rituals: running for miles in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park or biking around his adopted hometown. In many ways, the pandemic isn’t over for the 27-year-old and millions of other Americans. It may never be. They […]
Why are billions of euros worth of COVID drug Paxlovid going to waste in Europe?
European countries rushed to buy the antiviral drug in January 2022, but now it’s going to waste. Why? ADVERTISEMENT A COVID-19 antiviral drug has been underused in Europe with about 3.1 million courses of the medicine set to expire in the UK, Germany, Spain, Italy, and France by the end […]
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) – Symptoms and causes
Overview COVID-19, also called coronavirus disease 2019, is an illness caused by a virus. The virus is called severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, or more commonly, SARS-CoV-2. It started spreading at the end of 2019 and became a pandemic disease in 2020. Coronavirus Enlarge image […]
Church hands out free Paxlovid treatments to combat COVID-19
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Dozens of people in West Palm Beach got access to free doses of the COVID-19 treatment Paxlovid, a packaged medication that can cost nearly $1,400. The Centers for Health Promotion, in conjunction with New Bethel Missionary Baptist Church, handed out the anti-viral treatment to members […]
COVID explained by healthcare professionals
AUGUSTA COUNTY – Since the start of the pandemic, over one million Americans have died due to COVID-19. The Center for Disease Control (CDC) public health emergency ended last May, but COVID has not left. The University of Virginia held a press briefing in January with Dr. Costi Sifri, who outlined […]
Does Paxlovid really work for COVID? Dr. Mallika Marshall answers your questions
Does Paxlovid work to treat COVID-19? Does Paxlovid work to treat COVID-19? 00:29 BOSTON – Dr. Mallika Marshall is answering your latest health questions. If you have a question, email her or message her on Facebook or X (formerly known as Twitter). Sharon on Facebook writes, “I had COVID and I took Paxlovid, but a […]
Long term outcomes of hyperbaric oxygen therapy in post covid condition: longitudinal follow-up of a randomized controlled trial
In this long-term longitudinal follow-up of the active treatment group in our original randomized controlled trial, we found HBOT effects on quality of life, emotional well-being, sleep quality and neuropsychological symptoms in long COVID patients were maintained even more than 1 year (486 ± 73) after the last HBOT session. In all […]
Lefkowitz Lecture: Progress in Solving the Mystery of Long COVID
Long COVID, which affects 65 million people worldwide, appears to be not one disease but different collections of symptoms all precipitated by an acute COVID infection, said Akiko Iwasaki, PhD, director of the Center for Infection & Immunity at Yale School of Medicine. “We hope to classify long COVID into […]
West Palm Beach church giving away thousands of doses of COVID medication
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — At New Bethel Missionary Baptist Church, Pastor Toby Philpart and Dr. Dwight Reynolds have been working on a big project. “You don’t have to die because of COVID,” Philpart told WPTV. With special permission from the state of Florida, they’re giving away thousands of doses […]