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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Data from China suggest no survival benefit of two antiviral drugs in elderly COVID patients
gorodenkoff / iStock An observational study in eClinicalMedicine suggests that the antiviral drugs azvudine and nirmatrelvir/ritonavir (Paxlovid) were similarly ineffective in preventing death in elderly patients hospitalized for COVID-19 in China, although the authors acknowledge that the findings may be subject to confounding factors and bias. Azvudine has conditional approval […]
Long COVID: Another Great Pretender
George D. Lundberg, MD Has COVID replaced syphilis as the great imitator? At the turn of the 20th century, Sir William Osler was quoted as saying, “He who knows syphilis knows medicine.” If you have any doubts about the “imitator” analogy, simply use any broad search engine or AI portal […]
US healthcare is failing COVID patients. Paxlovid cost is far too high
As all of us know, the COVID-19 pandemic was the worst public health crisis in more than a century. Since the first cases four years ago, well more than 100 million Americans have gotten the virus, more than 6.7 million Americans have been hospitalized and more than 1 million Americans have died. More […]
The Minefields Ahead in Long COVID Treatment Development
Jeremy Faust is editor-in-chief of , an emergency medicine physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, and a public health researcher. He is author of the Substack column Inside Medicine. Follow Emily Hutto is an Associate Video Producer & Editor for MedPage Today. She is based in Manhattan. In […]
Potent new pill provides COVID relief for the masses
Boxes of the COVID-19 drug simnotrelvir are displayed at a manufacturing facility in Nanjing, China.Credit: VCG via Getty There’s new hope for the average person seeking relief from COVID-19: a drug called simnotrelvir has been shown to speed recovery from mild to moderate disease by about 1.5 days1. A clinical […]
COVID Vaccine Strongly Effective in Young People
PHILADELPHIA— Children and adolescents who received one of the main COVID-19 vaccines were significantly protected from the illness and showed no increased signs of cardiac complications compared to young people who were not vaccinated, according to a new real-world study led by researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at […]
Hydroxychloroquine use during COVID pandemic may have induced 17,000 deaths, new study finds
The drug hydroxychloroquine was prescribed off-label during the pandemic and touted in particular by a prominent French researcher. ADVERTISEMENT The antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine may have induced nearly 17,000 deaths in six countries during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. This molecule was presented during the pandemic as a miracle […]
Donald Trump’s ‘miracle drug’ for COVID killed nearly 17,000 people: Study
A drug promoted by former US President Donald Trump to cure COVID-19 has been linked to nearly 17,000 deaths, according to a new study. During the COVID pandemic, Trump urged Americans to take hydroxychloroquine (HCQ), an anti-malaria medicine that is also often used to cure rheumatoid arthritis and lupus, claiming […]
Study finds Paxlovid treatment does not reduce risk of long COVID
In all models, treatment with oral nirmatrelvir was not associated with lower odds of patient reported Long COVID symptoms with confidence intervals that cross 1, which suggests that treatment is not beneficial in reducing the risk of Long COVID. Model 3, the prespecified primary result, includes age, sex, and time […]