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A section specially dedicated to Long COVID or PASC ie Post-acute Sequelae of COVID-19. The section on Long COVID will cover all the latest research and developments about Long COVID or PASC and also provide guidelines to all long haulers about the new treatment protocols and therapeutics available for long COVID or Post-acute Sequelae of COVID-19 (PASC). Long COVID is expected to become a major h...
Source: Medical News - Long COVID Fatigue Sep 24, 2022 2 years ago
A new study by Dutch researchers from Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam-Netherlands And Rijndam Rehabilitation, Rotterdam-Netherlands has found that post-COVID fatigue is associated with increased expression of inflammatory genes in monocytes, increased serum pro-inflammatory cytokines and increased CD8+ lymphocytes.
It is already a common occurrence that a significant propo...
Source: Medical News - NEUROCOVID Sep 23, 2022 2 years ago
NeuroCOVID: A new study by researchers from Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis-USA and the Clinical Epidemiology Center at VA St. Louis Health Care System, St. Louis-USA has found that SARS-CoV-2 infections increases risk of various neurological issues including strokes, cognitive disorders and encephalopathy!
To date, the neurologic manifestations...
Source: Medical News - Autoimmune -Long COVID Sep 23, 2022 2 years ago
A new study by researchers from McMaster University-Canada and the University of British Columbia-Canada along with medical scientist from the Research Institute of St. Joes, St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton-Canada has found that even after a year, up to 41 percent of Post-COVID individuals still have autoantibodies that causes autoimmune issues!
At 3 and 6 months, nearly 80% of the C...
Source: Medical News - SARS-CoV-2 Mpro Cleaves Human Proteins Sep 09, 2022 2 years ago
A new study led by researchers from the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory at Stanford University and the National Virtual Biotechnology Laboratory at the US Department of Energy-Washington has found the SARS-CoV-2 main protease Mpro also called 3CLpro (3-chymotrypsin like protease ) is able to cleave a key human immune signaling protein called NEMO (NF-κB Essential Modulator) in the ...
Source- Medical News - COVID-19 Research - Impaired Pain Modulation Sep 08, 2022 2 years ago
A new study by American researchers from the University of Florida and the University of Oklahoma has found that symptomatic COVID-19 infections lead to impaired pain modulation in young adults!
According to the research team in their study abstract, “Pain is a common symptom reported in COVID-19 patients. Impaired endogenous pain-modulatory mechanisms such as conditioned pain modul...
Source: Medical News - Long COVID Research Sep 04, 2022 2 years ago
Long COVID Research: Alarming study findings from a new research conducted by medical scientist from the Hospital Regional de Alta Especialidad in Mexico has found that almost a third of Post-COVID patients who initially only developed mild symptoms upon infection displayed impaired lung function!
To date, only a few studies have assessed lung function in Hispanic subjects recovering from...
Source: Medical News - Long COVID Diagnostics Sep 02, 2022 2 years ago
Long COVID Diagnostics: IncellDx, a company based in California-USA specializing in a precision medicine and an array of advanced novel diagnostics and prognostics for the treatment of various infectious disease and cancer is officially launching the world’s first diagnostic test for Long COVID in Europe this month after securing the CE-IVD marking in Europe.
The company’s uti...
Source: Medical News - Long COVID-19 Research - IBS Aug 20, 2022 2 years ago
Long COVID Research: Researchers Dr Walter Chan, MD, MPH, an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School in Cambridge-USA and Dr Madhusudan Grover, MBBS, an associate professor of medicine and physiology at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota have in a new meta study found that COVID-19 infections can also cause disorders of gut-brain interaction, including post-infection or Post COVID irritable...
Source: Medical News -Long COVID- Microvascular Issues Aug 19, 2022 2 years ago
A new study by researchers from the Houston Methodist DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center at Houston Methodist Hospital has demonstrated that SARS-CoV-2 infections results in decreased myocardial blood flow which can impact cardiovascular health and also cause a variety of other heart related issues especially in Long COVID patients.
According to the study team, their research findings su...
Source: Medical News - Long COVID - Viral Persistence Aug 16, 2022 2 years ago
Long COVID-19 Research: A new study by researchers from the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at University of Kansas-USA has revealed that many Long COVID-19 patients have higher levels of circulating SARS-CoV-2 Viral RNA compared to individuals with acute COVID-19 infection!
For a long time already, Thailand Medical News has been warning that SARS-CoV-2 viral persistence ...
Source: Medical News - Long COVID -Epstein-Barr Virus Reactivation Aug 14, 2022 2 years ago
A new Long COVID study lead by Yale Immunology Professor Dr Akiko Iwasaki, PhD that involved 215 individuals from Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City and Yale New Haven Hospital in Connecticut has interesting found that Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV) reactivation and low cortisol levels are common in many Long COVID patients. The study which also had many other interesting findings is the first study ...
Source: Medical News - Long COVID Research Aug 13, 2022 2 years ago
Long COVID Research: A new study lead by researchers from the University of Birmingham-UK has found that sexual dysfunction and hair loss is joining fatigue and brain fog as leading Long COVID issues.
SARS-CoV-2 infections are associated with a range of persistent symptoms impacting everyday functioning, known as post-COVID-19 condition or long COVID.
The Long COVID Research study ...
Source: Medical News - COVID-19 Research Aug 12, 2022 2 years ago
COVID-19 Research: A new study by German researchers from University Hospital Münster has alarmingly found that that SARS-CoV-2 virus leaves a persistent capillary rarefication (a reduction in vascular density) even 18 months after infection!
Capillary rarefaction is a hallmark of fibrotic disease and reduces blood perfusion and oxygen delivery. Alterations in intracellular pO2 have ...
Source: Medical News - Pediatric Long COVID Aug 11, 2022 2 years ago
Pediatric Long COVID: A new study by researchers from The University of Texas (UT) Health Science Center at Houston-USA has found that children who contracted mild COVID-19 can still develop Long COVID symptoms after ‘recovery’.
The Pediatric Long COVID study findings serve as warnings to parents, teachers and also physicians that children who had contracted COVID-19 irrespect...
Source: Long COVID - ACTH Secretion Impairment Aug 10, 2022 2 years ago
Long COVID: Unknown to many, SARS-CoV-2 infections can also cause a variety of disruptions or dysregulation of the endocrine system causing the impairment of various hormones critical for life sustenance. Some of the Long COVID symptom manifestations are actually due to impairment of certain hormone secretions.
In this documented case study, researchers from Division of Diabetes and Endoc...
NeuroCOVID: Researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital-USA and Meso Scale Diagnostics, LLC. (MSD), Maryland-USA have identified two biomarkers ie GFAP (Glial fibrillary astrocytic protein) and NF-L (Neurofilament light chain) of which their elevated levels typically indicate the presence of NeuroCOVID or neurological sequelae in Long COVID patients.
It has been found that individua...
Source: Medical News- Long COVID Peripheral Neuropathy Jul 22, 2022 2 years ago
A new study by researchers from the People’s Hospital, Hebei Province-China, the Peking University, Beijing-China, North China University of Science and Technology, Hebei Province- China and the Hebei University of Chinese Medicine-China has alarmingly found that many Post COVID individuals will suffer from long term peripheral nerve demyelination and axonal loss and the risk of such damage ...
Source: Long COVID Research Jul 15, 2022 2 years ago
Long COVID Research: A new multi-omics study by researchers from the Medical University of Vienna-Austria, the University of Applied Sciences FH Campus Wien-Austria and the University of Vienna -Austria has discovered a unique anti-inflammatory immune signature and metabolic alterations in individuals with Long COVID.
The Long COVID Research findings showed that the proportions of cytokin...
Source: Neuropathogenic BA.5 Variant Jul 13, 2022 2 years ago
Neuropathogenic BA.5 Variant: Despite studies showing that the BA.5 variant has switched to utilizing the TMPRSS2 proteins more efficiency to gain entry into the host cells and has a tropism towards the lung tissues, we are not witnessing a great increase in numbers of those infected developing ARDs or pneumonia and requiring supplemental oxygen or the need for ventilators except for those who are...
Source: Medical News - COVID-19 - Thrombosis Jul 13, 2022 2 years ago
A new Swedish study led by researchers from Umeå University has found that all those who have been infected with the COVID-19 disease have an increased risk of serious blood clots for up to six months.
The study that also involved scientists from the University of Helsinki-Finland, Helsinki University Hospital-Finland and The Open University, Milton Keynes-UK found that the increased risks ...
Source: Long COVID - Neuroinflammation Jul 09, 2022 2 years ago
Long COVID: Yet another study, this time by researchers from Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University-USA also demonstrated that even mild SARS-CoV-2 infections lead to brain inflammation, brain damage and also cognitive issues!
Numerous clinical evidences suggest that patients with long COVID experience cognitive abnormalities. However, these clinical data are mostly associat...
Source: Long COVID or PASC Jul 09, 2022 2 years ago
A new murine study by researchers from the University of North Carolina at White Chapel-USA has found that SARS-CoV-2 infections ultimately lead to chronic pulmonary epithelial and immune cell dysfunction, including the development of fibrosis.
It is already known that a subset of individuals who recover from COVID-19 disease develop what is known as Long COVID or post-acute sequelae of S...
Source: Long COVID - Research Jul 04, 2022 3 years ago
Long COVID research: A new study by researchers from Northwestern University, Chicago-USA has found that even asymptomatic or mild to moderate SARS-CoV-2 infections can cause direct and indirect neuromuscular damage to the diaphragm resulting in the Long COVID manifestations of fatigue and dyspnea!
The diaphragm, located below the lungs and heart, is the major muscle of respiration. It is...
A new study by researchers from the Medical University of South Carolina-USA and The City College of New York has found that home-based transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation (taVNS) therapy can help in Long COVID.
While the COVID-19 pandemic has now impacted the world for over two years, the persistent secondary neuropsychiatric effects are still not fully understood.
Ma...
Source: SARS-CoV-2-DNA Damage Jun 14, 2022 3 years ago
SARS-CoV-2-DNA Damage: A new study by researchers from the Department of Genomic Medicine and Environmental Toxicology at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México has found that the SARS-CoV-2 protein Nsp13 is able to cause DNA damage and dysregulate tumor suppressor gene P53, increasing the risk of cancer to those who have been exposed to the protein! The study findings adds to t...
Source : Long COVID - Cognitive and Brain Damage Jun 12, 2022 3 years ago
Long COVID: A new study by researchers from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro- Brazil has found that various cognitive issues and impairment that is manifestated in Long COVID is actually caused by the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein that induces long-term TLR4-mediated synapse issues. The study has possible implicationa not only for those infected by the COVID-19 disease but also those exposed to...
Source: SARS-CoV-2 Research - STRA6 Jun 06, 2022 3 years ago
SARS-CoV-2 Research: A study by researchers from Damietta University-Egypt, Kafrelsheikh University-Egypt, Mahala Hepatology Teaching Hospital-Egypt, Federal University of Alfenas-Brazil, Al Azhar University-Egypt and the Ministry of health-Saudia Arabia has found that the SARS-CoV-2 virus is also able to bind with the STRA6 receptors found in the human host to gain entry in to neurons, immune cel...
Long COVID: A new study by researchers from Vrije Universiteit-Netherlands, University of Amsterdam-Netherlands and the University Medical Centre Utrecht-Netherlands has shockingly revealed that most Post-COVID individuals typically suffer continuous and massive brain neuroinflammation that contributes to various Long COVID manifestations.
The study involving the use of a new sensitive ra...
Source: SARS-CoV-2 BF.1 Variant Jun 03, 2022 3 years ago
Yet another divergent BA.5 subvariant has emerged with concerning mutations and scientist have designated the new sub-lineage as the BF.1 variant.
This new BA.5 variant that originated from the BA.5.2 subvariant and was initially classified as the BA.5.2.1 subvariant has the defining mutations G11837T (ORF1a:V3858L) (nsp6:V289L). https://github.com/cov-lineages/pango-designation/issues/61...
Source: Medical News - Long COVID May 25, 2022 3 years ago
Long COVID: A new study by researchers from the School of Clinical Medicine, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, the University of Hong Kong has found that SARS-CoV-2 infections also causes inflammatory bone loss leading to Long COVID skeletal health issues!
A past multi-center study showed that COVID-19 patients requiring intensive care had significantly lower bone mineral density (BMD) tha...
Source: Medical News - NeuroCOVID May 19, 2022 3 years ago
NeuroCOVID: A new study by researchers from the Institute for Neuroscience at Thomas Jefferson University- Philadelphia, East Carolina University and New York University has discovered findings that adds to the growing evidence that SARS-CoV-2 infections, irrespective of the nature of the infection ie whether asymptomatic or symptomatic, mild, moderate or severe, will lead to increased risk of bra...
Source: Medical News - Long COVID May 12, 2022 3 years ago
A new study by researchers from the Haemostasis Research Unit at the University College London-UK and the University College London Hospital-UK has found that most Post COVID individuals have an abnormal blood clotting condition due to an elevated Von Willebrand Factor (VWF) antigen (Ag): ADAMTS13 ratio that generally impairs exercise capacity in most of these individuals.
Long-COVID or P...
Long COVID: A new study by researchers from the PHOSP-COVID Collaborative Group which is a consortium of over 168 researchers focused on Long COVID research and which is led by the National Institute for Health Research Leicester Biomedical Research Centre, University of Leicester-UK has found that Long COVID is more predominant than though with only 1 out of 4 hospitalized COVID-19 patients...
Source: Long COVID - Muscle Weakness And Myalgia Apr 19, 2022 3 years ago
A new study by researchers from State University of Para, Belém-Brazil has found that the conditions of fatigue, muscle weakness, myalgia, and decline in physical and functional performance typically manifested in Long COVID is due to the SARS-CoV-2 virus using the host cellular machinery of the muscle cells for replication, which causes downregulation of cellular muscle functions, resultin...
Source: Medical News - SARS-CoV-2 -Cancers Apr 17, 2022 3 years ago
More worrisome data has emerged from a new study led by researchers from the University of Vermont, Sidney Kimmel Medical College and the University of Vermont Medical Center that indicates more possible long-term medical conditions arising in Long COVID including various cancers! The study that also involved medical scientists from Duke University, New York University and Icahn School of Medicine...
Source: Medical News - Long COVID Apr 05, 2022 3 years ago
Long COVID: Researchers from Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City in a new study involving animal models have discovered that most pain conditions in Long COVID are caused by the SARS-CoV-2 infection leaving a distinct gene expression signature in the dorsal root ganglia that remained even after the virus cleared!
The Long COVID study findings are yet to be published a...
Source: Medical News - Long COVID Mar 23, 2022 3 years ago
A new study by researchers from J. Craig Venter Institute-California, Agilent, Technologies, Inc-California, University of Delaware, Maine Medical Center and University of California-San Diego have found that majority of POSt-COVID-19 individuals have immune and clotting dysfunction which ca be detected via plasma and saliva samples.
To date, it is apparent that individuals who ‘rec...
Source: Medical News - Organ Impairment In Post-COVID Mar 22, 2022 3 years ago
British researchers from a leading biotech company in Oxford called Perspectum along with scientist and medical professionals from University of Liverpool, Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, University of Hull, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, University College London and Barts Health NHS Trust have in...
Source: Medical News - Long COVID Mar 15, 2022 3 years ago
A new study by researchers from the University of Iowa-USA have discovered that small airways disease with the presence of air trapping is a long-lasting sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection irrespective of mild, moderate or severe infections.
To date, the long-term effects of SARS-CoV-2 infection on pulmonary structure and function remain incompletely characterized.
The study team obj...
Source: Pediatric COVID-19 - Long COVID Kids Feb 26, 2022 3 years ago
A new study by German researchers from Friedrich-Alexander-Universität (FAU) Erlangen-Nürnberg and its University Hospital Erlangen along with experts from Hannover Medical School have found that many pediatric COVID-19 patients continue to develop lung issues and dysfunction despite recovery from COVID-19. Many of these kids still experience persistent sequelae after SARS-CoV-2 infectio...
Source: Medical News - Long COVID Feb 25, 2022 3 years ago
Thailand Medical News has been reporting and warning about the occurrences and dangers of SARS-CoV-2 viral persistence since late 2020 and that there is actually no such thing as ‘recovered’ COVID-19 patients as a stupid nasal or saliva swab tests are not able to tell you that there is no presence of the SARS-CoV-2 elsewhere in your body. In fact, it has been coming to light more and m...
Source: Long COVID - Paracrine Senescence Feb 22, 2022 3 years ago
Researchers from Osaka University-Japan, have in a new study found that SARS-CoV-2 infection triggers paracrine senescence and leads to a sustained senescence-associated inflammatory response that could also be responsible for a variety of conditions seen in Long COVID.
Importantly the study found that cells infected by SARS-CoV-2 produce soluble mediators that cause neighboring cells to ...
A new study lead by researchers from Weill Cornell Medicine-New York that also involved scientists and experts from University of Connecticut Health Center, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Harvard University, Harvey Mudd College, Boston Children's Hospital and the Rockefeller University shows that the that SARS-CoV-2 causes epigenetic changes to innate immune cells and their progenitors! S...
Source: Long COVID - Male Fertility Feb 14, 2022 3 years ago
A new study lead by researchers from the Proteomics Core Facility at Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar has identified that the human host proteins SPANXN4, STK25, ATF4, PRKD2, and CHMP3 are targeted by the autoantibodies generated as a result of a SARS-CoV-2 infection. As a result of these proteins being targeted, a variety of health and medical conditions arises in all those infected with the virus, m...
Long COVID Drugs: A new American study involving researchers from the Californian biotech company incellDX and doctors from the Chronic COVID Treatment Center In U.S. (https://covidlonghaulers.com/), has found that the antiviral drug Maraviroc together with the cholesterol lowering medication Pravastatin, are effective in treating long COVID or PASC (Post-Acute Sequelae of COVID).
Maraviroc, sold...
Source: Long COVID - Vagus Nerve Feb 13, 2022 3 years ago
Spanish medical researchers from the University Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol in Badalona claim that in a new study that they have found that the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus causes the Vagus nerve of the human host to become dysfunctional, resulting in a variety of issues that are commonly associated with Long COVID.
The study team led by Dr Gemma Lladós and Dr Lourdes Mateu from the I...
Source: Long COVID - Medical News Feb 12, 2022 3 years ago
To date, more than 408.5 million people have been infected with the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus globally and more than 5.8 million people have died from the COVID-19 disease according to official figures. In the United States alone, 77.6 million Americans out of a population of 334 million people have been infected with the virus and 918,451 Americans have so far died from the COVID-19 disease. https:/...
Long COVID-Lungs: Austrian researchers from the Medical University of Innsbruck, the Karl Landsteiner Institute, University Hospital Innsbruck and St. Vinzenz Hospital have in a new study found that many post COVID-19 individuals sustain continuous systemic inflammation that causes structural and functional lung abnormality!
The study team characterized the kinetics of respiratory and sym...
Source: Long COVID Treatments Feb 10, 2022 3 years ago
Long-COVID-Treatments: A new study by researchers from University of California-Irvine has shown that common over the counter (OTC) antihistamines such as diphenhydramine can help alleviate certain long COVID symptoms.
Long COVID or PASC (Post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection) is an emerging global health crisis, variably affecting millions worldwide.
It is currently estimated that a...
Source: COVID-Cardiovascular Issues - Medical-News Feb 08, 2022 3 years ago
COVID-Cardiovascular Issues: Two new studies are providing evidence that all individuals who have been exposed to the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus are at greater risk of developing a wide range of cardiovascular issues ranging from heart failures, cerebrovascular disorders, dysrhythmias, inflammatory disease of the heart or pericardium, ischemic heart disease, non-ischemic cardiomyopathy cardiac arrest,...
NEUROCOVID: Already there is so much mounting evidence that SARS-CoV-2 infections and the COVID-19 disease will lead to an array of neurological issues but recently more studies are popping up detailing the mechanisms and also providing clinical evidence that SARS-CoV-2 infections will ultimately lead to the enhanced risk of developing various neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s dise...
Source: Long COVID - Breathless Feb 05, 2022 3 years ago
A new study led by researchers from University of Oxford-UK and Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust-UK that was also supported by experts from the University of Birmingham-UK, University of Sheffield-UK and GE Healthcare-Germany has found that many non-hospitalized breathless Long COVID patients have impaired gas transfer in lungs which alarmingly cannot be detected by normal CT scans.
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Source: Long COVID - CVST Feb 03, 2022 3 years ago
While the Western world that have been responsible for developing and forcing usage of the COVID-19 jabs on people globally are now starting to ease COVID-19 restrictions as a result of their failure to rein in the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, they are now starting a new concerted strategy to play down the effects of the SARS-CoV-2 virus on a person’s health especially in terms of long te...
The peer reviewed journal: Cell Discovery by Nature has published a study whose alarming findings are showing that current COVID-19 jabs are causing pathophysiological alterations similar to an actual SARS-CoV-2 Infection! The first actual study that focusses on the full pathological and immune profile of individuals after receiving COVID-19 jabs, (Note we cannot use the V word as certain algorith...
A new study led by researcher from National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London-UK has alarmingly found that SARS-CoV-2 causes a prolonged change to the airway immune landscape in those with persistent lung disease, with evidence of cell death and tissue repair linked to ongoing activation of cytotoxic T cells.
The study also involved researchers and physicians from Westmins...