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Doctors struggle to treat long Covid patients in India; researchers point to inadequate studies

October 28, 2024 6:08 pm

Inflammation persisting despite recovery from acute Covid infection is thought to lie at the heart of long Covid.

Chef Taryn Marquez, who is living with 'long Covid', shares 3 foods she no longer eats at restaurants

September 20, 2024 6:41 pm

"I didn’t realise how much my safety training would prepare me for life with chronic illness. It’s intriguing how masking and dietary allergens are discussed, but food safety often isn’t," she wrote on Instagram

Spike protein changes found to help coronavirus infect brain, could be basis of long Covid: Study

August 28, 2024 6:15 pm

The exact causes of long Covid, which persists for months after the initial infection, and its brain-affecting symptoms are still not known

ICMR Covid study: key findings on mortality rate, comorbidities

ICMR study on long Covid: What its key findings say on post-Covid-19 conditions, vaccine efficacy

August 25, 2023 11:07 am

The ICMR study defines “post Covid-19 conditions” as persistent or new onset of fatigue, breathlessness, or cognitive abnormalities.

Unusual case of 'blue legs' in long Covid patient seen, a Lancet research reports

August 12, 2023 3:28 pm

A minute after standing, his legs began to redden and became increasingly blue over time, with the veins becoming more prominent, the study from the University of Leeds, UK, said

Daily Covid-related worrying impacted daydreams' quality more than night-dreams', study finds

July 02, 2023 11:31 am

People who generally tended to worry more about Covid, also tended to have more negative dreams, a new research examining how Covid-related concerns and worries affected the emotional quality of daydreaming and nighttime dreaming in these times found

Long COVID could be caused by the virus lingering in the body. Here's what the science says

June 15, 2023 11:04 am

A 2022 study found SARS-CoV-2 in the stool of about half of the participants in the first week after infection. At four months, there was no virus present in the respiratory tract but 12.7% of stool samples were RNA positive. A further 3.8% of fecal samples remained positive for RNA at seven months.

Overactive inflammatory response could be at the root of long Covid: Study

June 13, 2023 4:27 pm

A set of molecules associated with inflammation was found in the blood proteins of only a subset of patients with long COVID and not those recovered from the disease, said scientists from the Allen Institute and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Washington, US, in the research.

Can Metformin reduce risk of long Covid by 40 per cent? Experts still wary of new study

June 13, 2023 12:30 pm

The results of the trial will not be applicable to everyone with acute COVID-19 because the definition of long Covid has been evolving throughout the pandemic, and basing efficacy analysis of the drug for preventing it can be tricky. More trials are needed, say experts

Is long COVID causing joint pains, damaging your bones?

May 04, 2023 6:43 pm

The exact mechanism by which COVID-19 may lead to Avascular Necrosis (AVN) is not fully understood but it is related to the systemic inflammation and blood clotting abnormalities that can occur in severe Covid cases and disrupt blood supply to the bone, says Dr Vaibhav Bagaria, Director, Orthopaedics, Sir H N Reliance Foundation Hospital and Research Centre, Mumbai