Long COVID
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Off-label meds: Promising long COVID treatments?
Low-dose naltrexone is a major topic of discussion on public long COVID patient groups on Facebook.
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Infection-related chronic illness: A new paradigm for research and treatment
Researchers are looking to build a common research agenda for infection-related chronic illnesses to “understand the epidemiology and pathogenesis...
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Long COVID and vaccines: Separating facts from falsehoods
Discussions of vaccination with patients, including those with long COVID, are often fraught and challenging. “There’s a lot of fear that they...
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Long COVID ‘brain fog’ confounds doctors, but new research offers hope
Brain fog is among the most common symptoms of long COVID, and also one of the most poorly understood.
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Postacute effects of COVID on par with those of sepsis, flu
“I think what this tells us is that maybe a lot of the issues that we’ve been seeing as complications attributable to COVID are, in fact,...
From the Journals
Millions who had COVID-19 still don’t have sense of smell, taste
“If you lost your sense of smell, did you get it back? There’s about a one in four chance you didn’t. That’s terrible.”
From the Journals
Anxiety, your brain, and long COVID: What the research says
Anxiety, depression, and COVID-19 can be a bad combination for your brain and your long-term health.
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Long COVID risk not higher with rheumatic diseases
“The data demonstrate that rheumatic disease itself is not a risk factor for long COVID. However, patients with rheumatic diseases are at a higher...
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Menopause and long COVID: What women should know
Women at midlife who have long COVID seem to get specific, and severe, symptoms, including brain fog, fatigue, new-onset dizziness, and difficulty...
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Could vitamin D supplementation help in long COVID?
“COVID-19 patients with low vitamin D levels are more likely to develop long COVID, but it is not yet known whether vitamin D supplements could...
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Hyperbaric oxygen may improve heart function in long COVID
“We should open our minds to thinking about this treatment for another indication. That is the basis of precision medicine. We have this treatment...