Study finds connection between COVID-19 and insomnia
Hunter Boyce | The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (TNS) Researchers in Vietnam have discovered a connection between COVID-19 cases and trouble sleeping in patients. Related Articles Health | Inside the...
View ArticleLargest COVID vaccine study yet finds links to health conditions
Jason Gale | Bloomberg News (TNS) Vaccines that protect against severe illness, death and lingering long COVID symptoms from a coronavirus infection were linked to small increases in neurological,...
View ArticleDo we simply not care about old people?
Judith Graham | KFF Health News (TNS) The COVID-19 pandemic would be a wake-up call for America, advocates for the elderly predicted: incontrovertible proof that the nation wasn’t doing enough to care...
View ArticleStudy: About a third of children hospitalized with COVID-19 experience...
BALTIMORE — A new study by 12 medical sites found that up to a third of children who were hospitalized because of COVID-19 experienced persistent symptoms one to two years after they were released. The...
View ArticlePaul Offit looks back on COVID-19, misinformation, and how public health lost...
Abraham Gutman | (TNS) The Philadelphia Inquirer PHILADELPHIA — Trust in public health agencies declined during the COVID-19 pandemic, as misinformation about vaccines and the virus proliferated on...
View ArticleHidden COVID virus found nearly two years after infection
Pieces of the COVID virus can lurk in our blood and tissue for almost two years after the initial illness has vanished, a discovery that might offer clues to the mystery of lingering post-infection...
View ArticleWhy COVID patients who could most benefit from Paxlovid still aren’t getting it
Arthur Allen | KFF Health News (TNS) Evangelical minister Eddie Hyatt believes in the healing power of prayer but “also the medical approach.” So on a February evening a week before scheduled prostate...
View ArticleHealth workers fear it’s profits before protection as CDC revisits airborne...
Amy Maxmen | KFF Health News (TNS) Four years after hospitals in New York City overflowed with COVID-19 patients, emergency physician Sonya Stokes remains shaken by how unprepared and misguided the...
View ArticleCOVID-19 can damage the heart, even without infecting it, study says
Hunter Boyce | The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (TNS) COVID-19 can damage your heart, even when the virus doesn’t directly infect cardiac tissue. That’s the latest from a recent study supported by the...
View ArticleFour years after shelter-in-place, COVID-19 misinformation persists
By Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu, KFF Health News From spring break parties to Mardi Gras, many people remember the last major “normal” thing they did before the novel coronavirus pandemic dawned, forcing...
View ArticleCongress likely to kick the can on COVID-era telehealth policies
Sarah Jane Tribble | (TNS) KFF Health News Nearly two hours into a Capitol Hill hearing focused on rural health, Rep. Brad Wenstrup emphatically told the committee’s five witnesses: “Hang with us.”...
View ArticleThere’s a new highly transmissible COVID-19 variant. Could FLiRT lead to a...
Rong-Gong Lin II | (TNS) Los Angeles Times Two new COVID-19 subvariants, collectively nicknamed FLiRT, are increasingly edging out the winter’s dominant strain ahead of a possible summer uptick in...
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Mistrust, fights and blood sport: How COVID-19 trauma is shaping the 2024...
Jeffrey Fleishman | (TNS) Los Angeles Times Much of the country has moved on from the COVID-19 pandemic, but Ruth and Mohammed Nasrullah keep a vigil from their Houston home, posting thousands of...
View ArticlePositive test not needed for long COVID diagnosis, experts conclude
By Emily Alpert Reyes, Los Angeles Times LOS ANGELES — People do not need to have tested positive for the coronavirus to be considered for a diagnosis of long COVID, a new report from the National...
View ArticleAnother COVID vaccine? Yes, and here’s why
This fall, prepare for the latest round of COVID vaccine Whac-a-Mole. Like the old arcade game, no matter how many shots we get, the enemy always pops back up. But here’s why the new shot, recommended...
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‘You’re in a room of people that get it’: Long COVID support group navigates...
After contracting a COVID-19 infection, Nate Freeman lost hope as symptoms of long COVID lingered well after his infection. A support group for long COVID patients that began meeting this year gave him...
View ArticleDo you have COVID? Here’s how long the CDC recommends you stay home
Michelle Marchante | (TNS) Miami Herald MIAMI — COVID is going around again this summer, with infections rising across Florida and the country. The good news is that the most common variants...
View ArticleLong COVID risk has decreased but remains significant, study finds
Rong-Gong Lin II | (TNS) Los Angeles Times LOS ANGELES — The risk of developing long COVID — enduring, sometimes punishing symptoms that linger well after a coronavirus infection — has decreased since...
View ArticleLong COVID ties heart disease for health outcomes. Vaccines reduce risk: study
By Serina DeSalvio, St. Louis Post-Dispatch ST. LOUIS — Long COVID is on par with heart disease in terms of its severity, but vaccination reduces risks of long COVID by nearly 70%, say researchers at...
View ArticleThis year’s new COVID shot has been approved by FDA
This year’s newly formulated COVID vaccines are expected to start shipping in the next few days after the FDA on Thursday officially approved the new shots. “Vaccination continues to be the cornerstone...
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