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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: Cognitive Issues and COVID-19 Oct 23, 2021 3 years ago
Cognitive Issues and COVID-19: A new study by researchers from Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York has shown that that cognitive decline and brain fog can persist up to 8 months after contracting COVID-19!
Individuals who have survived COVID-19 frequently complain of cognitive dysfunction, which has been described as brain fog. The prevalence of post–COVID-19 cognitive im...
Long COVID is now becoming a more serious issue as initially certain earlier studies had found that only about 30 to 37 percent of people who were infected with the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus will continue to suffer from a variety of long-term health/medical conditions known collectively as PASC or Post-acute Sequelae of COVID-19. However newer data is showing that not only are the medical conditions ...
Source: COVID-19 Immunology Oct 14, 2021 3 years ago
COVID-19 Immunology: A new study by researchers from the University of Glassgow-Scotland, the Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCCS-Italy and the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore-Italy has identified that a macrophage induced protein called SPP1 as a mediator that is driving multiple pathogenic inflammatory responses in severe COVID-19 as well as in Long COVID.
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Source: SARS-CoV-2-Eyes-Long COVID Oct 13, 2021 3 years ago
A new study by researchers from Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine has discovered that the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus is able to infect and replicate in the photoreceptor and also retinal ganglion cells of human retinal organoids.
Alarmingly the study findings not only suggest a retinal involvement in COVID 19 but also emphasize the need to monitor retinal pathologies as potential sequela...
Source: Long COVID-Kidney Disease Oct 08, 2021 3 years ago
Long-COVID-Kidney Disease: While many morons out there are assuming that COVID-19 is nothing as serious as the common flu and that it only affects the old or obese or those with existing comorbidities, its going to be fun in coming months and years as we see more people who had once been infected with the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus start developing not just the mild manifestations of Long COVID such a...
Source: Long COVID Research Oct 07, 2021 3 years ago
Long COVID Research: A new study by researchers from Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai-New York shows that gene expression changes during acute SARS-CoV-2 infection may decide long-COVID symptoms.
Physicians and medical experts around the world are finally coming to terms that after 21 months into the COVID-19 pandemic, the post-acute sequelae of COVID-19 disease (PASC) or what are c...
Long COVID News: Long COVID or Post-Acute Sequelae of COVID-19 (PASC) is becoming a major issue of importance as the emerging data is indicating that it could be a major threat to public healthcare in various countries in coming months and years as the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus and its emerging variants continue to ravage the world and infection rates are still increasing.
The spect...
Source: Long COVID Research Oct 04, 2021 3 years ago
Long COVID Research: A new study by researchers from McMaster University-Canada and University of Melbourne- Australia has found that individuals that only had mild COVID-19 infections still exhibited persistent leukocyte changes even three months after ‘recovery’!
It has been found that survivors of severe SARS-CoV-2 infections frequently suffer from a range of post-infection ...
SARS-CoV-2-Brain: A new preliminary but large-scale study led researchers from the Department of Clinical Neurosciences of the University of Oxford-UK, along with scientist from National Institutes of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health-USA and the Department of Brain Sciences, Imperial College-UK investigating brain changes in individuals who had experienced COVID-19 dr...
Source: COVID-19-Autoimmune Diseases Sep 26, 2021 3 years ago
COVID-19 And Autoimmune Diseases: Various new studies are showing that an infection with the SARS-CoV-2 can also trigger a variety of autoimmune conditions and diseases including some never seen before.
In the first study by researchers from Stanford University School of Medicine-USA, the study team found that in severe hospitalized COVID-19 patients, the immune system is tricked into prod...
Source: Guillain-Barré Syndrome and COVID-19 Sep 23, 2021 3 years ago
Guillain-Barré Syndrome and COVID-19: A new international collaborative study has confirmed that SARS-CoV-2 infections can trigger Guillain-Barré Syndrome.
Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) is a rare, autoimmune disorder in which a person's own immune system damages the nerves, causing muscle weakness and sometimes paralysis. GBS can cause symptoms that ...
Source: COVID-19 Immunology Sep 22, 2021 3 years ago
COVID-19 Immunology: A new study by researchers from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center-California not only confirms that SARS-CoV-2 infections whether symptomatic (Be it Mild, Moderate or Severe) or even asymptomatic can generate distinct autoantibodies that can lead to a variety of autoimmune issues not only during the infection stage but also in the long term. The study has also found that males tend ...
Medical News: For a long time now, a lot of research on the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus mode of infection and pathogenesis has only been focuses on the spike proteins with very little paid to the rest of the proteins found on the viral genome.
A new study by German scientists from Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology and the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine-Berlin and the...
Long COVID News: A new study led by researchers from Columbia University-USA along with support of scientists from the Zan Mitrev Clinic-North Macedonia and University of Florence-Italy has found that Long-COVID is associated with sustained biochemical disturbances especially elevated levels of D-dimers and Ferritin.
The Study team aimed to evaluate the incidence of Post-Acute Sequelae of ...
Source: COVID-19 Supplements-Flavonoids Sep 18, 2021 3 years ago
COVID-19-Supplements: As part of Thailand Medical News continued initiatives on herbs and phytochemical research for treating COVID-19 and also Long COVID, the following coverage on the usage of herbs and phytochemicals to treat COVID-19 and a health conditions arising with the novel coronavirus infection or what is termed as Long COVID or PASC (Post-acute Sequelae of COVID-19) shows the growing i...
Long COVID News: A new study by researchers from the University of Texas-Arlington shows that young and otherwise healthy adults would suffer persistent peripheral macrovascular and microvascular complications following ‘recovery’ from COVID-19.
The study was the first to investigate the persistent effects of COVID-19 on vascular function in otherwise healthy young adults.
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Long-COVID News: Scientists from the University of Vermont-USA along with support from researchers from Duke University School of Medicine-North Carolina-USA have in a new study confirmed that the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus has the ability able to cause damage to the DNA and telomeres of the human host. The study findings has alarming implications in terms of long term medical conditions and also help...
Long-COVID: The COVID-19 pandemic is an extremely dynamic event in which new and better evolving research are constantly materializing and superseding whatever we had earlier known along with the fact that there are constantly new players in the pandemic due to the variety of emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants, each with unique mutations, characteristics, pathogenesis and their own specific manner of di...
NeuroCOVID: New alarming study findings by researchers from the Ruđer Bošković Institute-Croatia, University of Zagreb-Croatia and the National Institute of Chemistry- have shown that the Spike proteins of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus have a strong biding affinity for the enzyme found in the brain called monoamine oxidases (MAO) enzymes and it is as a result of these binding and su...
Source: COVID-19 And Hyperglycaemia Sep 03, 2021 3 years ago
Researchers from the Università di Milano in Italy and the from the Nephrology Division, Boston Children’s Hospital,Harvard Medical School-USA are warning that there will be a huge surge of diabetes caseloads in individuals who had been infected with the COVID-19 disease despite being healthy prior to the SARS-CoV-2 infection.
COVID-19 patients who were otherwise healthy...
Source:Long-COVID-FibroCOVID Sep 01, 2021 3 years ago
A new Italian study led by the Rizzoli Orthopedic Institute and the University of Bologna that also involved researchers from the University of Catanzaro, University of Turin, Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma and the University of Ferrara has alarming found that there is now a growing prevalence of the medical condition known as fibromyalgia among so called recovered COVID-19 patients w...
Source: COVID-19 News Briefs Aug 29, 2021 3 years ago
COVID-19 News Briefs: Study Shows That Microscopic Lung Damage Continues In The Recovered!
A new study shows that the persistent breathing issues that plague some COVID-19 survivors, known as "long COVID," may be due to microscopic processes that continue to damage lungs even after the acute infection is over! https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.10.21261834v1
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Source:Long COVID Updates Aug 12, 2021 3 years ago
COVID-19-Brain Fog: A new study by researchers from the University of Oxford has found that many non-hospitalized COVID-19 patients will exhibit brain fog for weeks or months after SARS-CoV-2 infection.
The study team intended to explore the lived experience of ‘brain fog’ ie the wide variety of neurocognitive symptoms that can follow COVID-19 infection.
Out of a study g...
Long-COVID: A new study by researchers from the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute-Adelaide, University of Adelaide, Royal Adelaide Hospital and Flinders University-South Australia has revealed that long COVID could be the result of persistent immune disturbances.
According to the study team, increasing evidence suggests immune dysregulation in individuals recovering from SARS...
Source: Epstein-Barr virus and COVID-19 Jul 22, 2021 3 years ago
A number of studies are emerging that indicate Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) reactivation may play a role both in the development of long COVID symptoms, as well as severe COVID-19 cases.
It has been found that Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients sometimes experience long-term symptoms following resolution of acute disease, including fatigue, brain fog, and rashes.
One study published ...
Source: Long COVID-19 News Jul 18, 2021 3 years ago
A new study conducted by researchers from the University of Birmingham indicates that individuals who exhibit 5 or more symptoms during the first week of a SARS-CoV-2 infection are most likely to develop Long COVID.
Note: Not only adults can get Long COVID, lots of children are now
being discovered to suffer from Long COVID as well and special
attention are needed for them.
Worldwide, ther...
A new comprehensive study by researchers from University of São Paulo-Brazila and the Hospital do Servidor Público Estadual –Brazil has uncovered more concerning details about the COVID-19 disease. The researchers warn that COVID-19 is a chronic disease that can trigger immunoparalysis , autoimmune diseases, neoplastic transformation and latent infectious diseases! The Lon...
With official figures stating that more than 188 million individuals globally have been infected with the COVID-19 disease and majority deemed ‘recovered’ but the US CDC and WHO saying the figures could be far much more ie tenfold, one cannot but feel worried about the impact of long term medical conditions from Long COVID and how it is going to bring about the eventual collapse health...