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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Experimental drug that alters gut microbiome shows promise for long COVID relief
Proportion of PACS symptoms alleviation by six months. Credit: The Lancet Infectious Diseases (2023). DOI: 10.1016/S1473-3099(23)00685-0 A randomized controlled trial in Hong Kong finds that the synbiotic drug SIM01 relieves multiple symptoms of long COVID, or post-acute COVID-19 syndrome (PACS). SIM01 contains strains of anaerobic Bifidobacterium bacteria (which are probiotics) […]
Companies Market Stem Cell Treatments to Long COVID Patients
Clinics that sell stem cell and exosome treatments have turned their attention to long COVID patients, researchers found. Among 38 businesses selling such treatments for COVID-19, the majority (36) marketed those therapies for long COVID, stated Leigh Turner, PhD, of the University of California Irvine, and colleagues in Stem Cell […]
Long covid: What we now know about its causes and possible treatments
FOR many of us, the covid-19 pandemic is fading into memory. But for millions of people, that isn’t possible as they are still unwell. An illness that is often brief and mild is, for some, the start of a rollercoaster of symptoms that can last years. Today, around 65 million […]
Science & Medicine: Counter Long COVID with pacing
In the first episode of “Science and Medicine,” we heard from one of the nation’s leading experts on Long COVID. Dr. Monica Verduzco-Gutierrez is the chair of rehabilitation medicine at UT Health San Antonio and she runs two long COVID clinics. She said that for some, Long COVID feels a […]
From a Grassroots Survey to Long COVID Treatment Trials
In January 2020, Martha Eckey was working at a retail pharmacy in Champaign, Illinois, when she developed a sore throat, hacking cough, and stiff neck. A second bout of illness struck about a month later, leaving the pharmacist with a persistent fever and shortness of breath. Covid tests […]
The Long History of Long COVID and Other Chronic Illnesses < Yale School of Medicine
Long COVID is by no means unique in causing a wide array of symptoms that persist for weeks, months, or even years after a person has recovered from the acute infection. “Post-acute infection syndromes have been going on for decades—or maybe hundreds of years—but we haven’t been paying attention,” says […]
Penn Medicine researchers find serotonin is linked to long COVID-19 symptoms
Researchers from Penn’s Perelman School of Medicine found that traces of the COVID virus in longterm patients inhibit the development of serotonin. Credit: Riley Eastham A new study led by researchers from Penn’s Perelman School of Medicine found that a decrease in serotonin levels is linked to the development of […]
Penn Study Finds Serotonin Reduction Causes Long COVID Symptoms
PHILADELPHIA—Patients with long COVID – the long-term symptoms like brain fog, fatigue, or memory loss in the months or years following COVID-19 – can exhibit a reduction in circulating levels of the neurotransmitter serotonin, according to new research published today in Cell. The study, led by researchers from the Perelman […]
Long COVID clinic receives $5M grant for underserved
The Post-COVID Rehabilitation and Recovery Clinic at Harborview Medical Center has received a $5 million grant to help members of underserved communities who are battling long COVID. The Harborview clinic comprises 10 physicians from across the departments of rehabilitation medicine, general internal medicine, family medicine and neurology. Dr. Janna Friedly, […]
Early Treatment With Plasma May Reduce Long COVID Risk
Johns Hopkins Medicine’s Dr. Aaron Tobian seen thawing a bag of convalescent plasma, an antibody-rich blood product collected from patients recovered from COVID-19. A new Johns Hopkins-led study — for which Dr. Tobian is one of the authors — suggests early treatment with convalescent plasma may lower the risk of […]
Mississippi politicians have long history of opposing efforts to provide health care for their citizens
There’s a strong feeling of déjà vu in Mississippi politics. When Haley Barbour began his successful 2003 gubernatorial campaign, he criticized Democratic incumbent Ronnie Musgrove for expanding the state’s welfare rolls. Barbour was referring to the fact that during the Musgrove administration, enrollment in the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) […]
Wait goes on for effective long Covid treatments
Receive free Coronavirus updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Coronavirus news every morning. While Covid-19 rapidly emptied cities and shut industries, long Covid has been more stealthy. Yet its impact in the past two years has been huge: a study last month showed […]
Multiple trials testing treatments for long COVID symptoms
Symptoms of long COVID include shortness of breath, brain fog, sleep disturbances and fatigue. Two new clinical trials at UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital are testing treatments for long COVID symptoms. Photo: Getty Images. Sweeping new research in Colorado aims to help patients who are suffering from varied, persistent and […]