J. B. Long COVID brain fog may originate in a surprising place, say scientistsverified_publisherNPR - Will StoneScientists have uncovered a possible explanation for one of COVID-19's most vexing legacies: the stubborn neurological symptoms of long COVID, such as brain fog, memory loss and fatigue. The first clue emerged when researchers scoured the blood of long COVID patients: It was serotonin – …
J. B. Long COVID Patients Are Far More Likely to Have Multiple Organ Abnormalitiesverified_publisherScienceAlert - Betty RamanIt wasn't that long ago that some people speculated that long COVID was all in the mind – a psychosomatic illness. Thankfully, that period of …
J. B. People who’ve had Covid at least 5 times describe how the illness changed with each reinfectionNBC News - By Aria BendixThree people interviewed said their later infections were less severe than their first ones. Even so, getting Covid over and over takes a mental toll. Nearly four years after Covid’s emergence, plenty of people have tested positive at least twice. But an unlucky group has been hit with reinfection …
J. B. mRNA vaccine innovators win the Nobel Prize in medicineverified_publisherPopular Science - Laura BaisasKatalin Karikó and Drew Weissman’s work was fundamental in developing COVID-19 vaccines and more. The 2023 Nobel Prize in medicine was awarded to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman, two of the scientists whose work helped pave the way for mRNA vaccines against COVID-19. Karikó is a biochemist from …
J. B. Cause of increased heart risk from COVID infection revealedcosmosmagazine.com - Matthew Ward AgiusResearchers from New York University have uncovered an explanation for why infection with the virus that causes COVID-19 can increase the risk of …
J. B. Scientists edge closer to finding a biomarker for long Covid, which could lead to better tests and treatmentsCNN - Brenda GoodmanCNN — People who have struggled to recover after Covid-19 often find that clinicians treat them like medical mysteries. Routine tests often don’t reveal that anything is amiss, so doctors sometimes wrongly assume that long Covid might be a form of depression or anxiety or is otherwise all in a …