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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...
COVID-19 News - SARS-CoV-2 Induced Isolated Diastolic Hypertension -IDH  Nov 26, 2022  2 years ago
COVID-19 News: In the last few months, based on data that we have been collating from various Long COVID clinics and also small research groups involved in Post COVID medical issues, it has been found that many post-COVID patients tend to be displaying a unique condition that is termed as Isolated Diastolic Hypertension or IDH.   Isolated diastolic hypertension (IDH) is defined as diastolic...
Long COVID News - Persistent Interferon Gamma Release   Nov 22, 2022  2 years ago
Long COVID News: A new study by researchers from University of Cambridge - UK, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - UK, Cambridge National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) - UK, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research - UK and Addenbrooke's Hospital – UK has found that most individuals with Long COVID tend to have persistent T-cell dependent Interferon Gamma (IFN-&g...
Source: COVID-19 News - neuroPASC - Immunologic Imprinting   Nov 15, 2022  2 years ago
COVID-19 News: A new study lead by researchers from Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard Medical School, Cambridge – USA has found that NeuroCOVID manifestations in post infections are determined by immunologic imprinting from previous coronaviruses!   The study also involved medical researchers from the Department of Neuroscience, Biomedicine and Movement Sciences, University of V...
Source: Long COVID Treatments - Melatonin  Nov 10, 2022  2 years ago
Long COVID Treatments: A new multinational study involving researchers from Pontificia Universidad Católica - Argentina, University of Toronto - Canada and Saveetha University, Chennai – India has found that melatonin supplements can aid in relieving and treating certain Long COVID symptoms. Being a cheap generic supplement that is easily available, the study team suggested that melat...
Source: Medical News - COVID-19 Research - Cystitis  Nov 08, 2022  2 years ago
A cohort study by medical researchers from the Department of Urology, Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine, Beaumont Hospital-Royal Oak, Michigan – USA has found that COVID-19 increases the incidence of cystitis, overactive bladder and other urinary issues!   Shockingly, the research findings showed that symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection was associated with a three ti...
COVID-19 News - Long COVID - Viral Persistence  Nov 04, 2022  2 years ago
COVID-19 News: Researchers from the Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IMCB) at the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (ASTAR) - Singapore, Long Covid Autonomous Comm unities Together Spain (Research Group) Madrid -Spain, Vetcare Hospital Veterinario Madrid -Spain, Singapore General Hospital, Cancer Science Institute of Singapore and the Singapore Immunology Network (SIgN) presented...
Source: Long COVID - Thyroid Dysfunction  Nov 01, 2022  2 years ago
Long COVID: In the early part of 2022, Thailand Medical News covered a report by a British lab that there an on uptick in the number of patients being diagnosed with thyroid issues and that it was speculated that the Omicron variants and its sub-lineages could be responsible for these. https://www.thailandmedical.news/news/breaking-cso-from-london-medical-laboratory-warns-that-thyroid-issues-escal...
Source: COVID-19 News - Risk Of Venous Thromboembolism  Oct 28, 2022  2 years ago
COVID-19 News: A new study by researchers from Queen Mary University of London – United Kingdom has found that even those who simply contracted mild SARS-CoV-2 infections had a higher risk of developing venous thromboembolism (VTE).   Venous thromboembolism (VTE), a term referring to blood clots in the veins, is an underdiagnosed and serious, yet preventable medical condition that can...
Source: Thailand Medical - Long COVID Erectile Dysfunction  Oct 27, 2022  2 years ago
Long COVID Erectile Dysfunction: It seems that for Thais, sex is an important component of their life considering what the country’s night life is famous for and what social media is basically being used for in the country and the volume of pornography that is associated with Thais (just visit the porn sites and add Thai in the search functions for any category or go to sites like Only Fans)...
Source: Long COVID News  Oct 16, 2022  2 years ago
Long COVID News: A new study conducted by researchers from Stellenbosch University-South Africa has found that the increased levels of six different inflammatory molecules in most post-COVID individuals known to be key drivers of endothelial and clotting pathology, causes thrombotic endotheliitis, a contributing factor to Long COVID. These six inflammatory molecules were:   -1) Von Willebra...
Source: Long COVID  Oct 12, 2022  2 years ago
A new study by researchers from University of Birmingham-UK has found that SARS-CoV-2 infections can also trigger a variety of immune-mediated inflammatory diseases (IMIDS) especially type 1 diabetes mellitus, inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and psoriasis.   The aim of the study was to assess whether there is an association between SARS CoV-2 infection and the incidence of immune mediated ...
Source: Long COVID  Oct 12, 2022  2 years ago
A study by Harvard researchers involving humoral immune profiling has discovered that immunity to non-COVID-19 endemic coronaviruses may play a role in who develops PASC (Post-Acute Sequelae of COVID-19) commonly known as Long COVID!   The study team comprised scientists from Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT, and Harvard-USA, Brigham and Women’s Hospital-Boston, Massachusetts General Hospi...
Source: Long COVID - Premature Aging Of Lungs  Oct 04, 2022  2 years ago
Long COVID: A study by researchers from University of Oxford- United Kingdom involving a new computational technique has shockingly revealed that the lungs of Post COVID-19 individuals displayed premature aging of more than 15 years along with other lung dysfunctions!   To date, the long-term effects of COVID-19 on lung physiology remain poorly understood.   The study team utilized a n...
Source: Medical News - Long COVID Fatigue  Sep 24, 2022  2 years ago
A new study by Dutch researchers from Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam-Netherlands And Rijndam Rehabilitation, Rotterdam-Netherlands has found that post-COVID fatigue is associated with increased expression of inflammatory genes in monocytes, increased serum pro-inflammatory cytokines and increased CD8+ lymphocytes.   It is already a common occurrence that a significant propo...
Source: Medical News - NEUROCOVID  Sep 23, 2022  2 years ago
NeuroCOVID: A new study by researchers from Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis-USA and the Clinical Epidemiology Center at VA St. Louis Health Care System, St. Louis-USA has found that SARS-CoV-2 infections increases risk of various neurological issues including strokes, cognitive disorders and encephalopathy!   To date, the neurologic manifestations...
Source: Medical News - Autoimmune -Long COVID  Sep 23, 2022  2 years ago
A new study by researchers from McMaster University-Canada and the University of British Columbia-Canada along with medical scientist from the Research Institute of St. Joes, St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton-Canada has found that even after a year, up to 41 percent of Post-COVID individuals still have autoantibodies that causes autoimmune issues!   At 3 and 6 months, nearly 80% of the C...
Source: Medical News - SARS-CoV-2 Mpro Cleaves Human Proteins  Sep 09, 2022  2 years ago
A new study led by researchers from the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory at Stanford University and the National Virtual Biotechnology Laboratory at the US Department of Energy-Washington has found the SARS-CoV-2 main protease Mpro also called 3CLpro (3-chymotrypsin like protease ) is able to cleave a key human immune signaling protein called NEMO (NF-κB Essential Modulator) in the ...
Source- Medical News - COVID-19 Research - Impaired Pain Modulation  Sep 08, 2022  2 years ago
A new study by American researchers from the University of Florida and the University of Oklahoma has found that symptomatic COVID-19 infections lead to impaired pain modulation in young adults!   According to the research team in their study abstract, “Pain is a common symptom reported in COVID-19 patients. Impaired endogenous pain-modulatory mechanisms such as conditioned pain modul...
Source: Medical News - Long COVID Research  Sep 04, 2022  2 years ago
Long COVID Research: Alarming study findings from a new research conducted by medical scientist from the Hospital Regional de Alta Especialidad in Mexico has found that almost a third of Post-COVID patients who initially only developed mild symptoms upon infection displayed impaired lung function!   To date, only a few studies have assessed lung function in Hispanic subjects recovering from...
Source: Medical News - Long COVID Diagnostics  Sep 02, 2022  2 years ago
Long COVID Diagnostics: IncellDx, a company based in California-USA specializing in a precision medicine and an array of advanced novel diagnostics and prognostics for the treatment of various infectious disease and cancer is officially launching the world’s first diagnostic test for Long COVID in Europe this month after securing the CE-IVD marking in Europe.   The company’s uti...
Source: Medical News - Long COVID-19 Research - IBS  Aug 20, 2022  2 years ago
Long COVID Research: Researchers Dr Walter Chan, MD, MPH, an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School in Cambridge-USA and Dr Madhusudan Grover, MBBS, an associate professor of medicine and physiology at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota have in a new meta study found that COVID-19 infections can also cause disorders of gut-brain interaction, including post-infection or Post COVID irritable...
Source: Medical News -Long COVID- Microvascular Issues  Aug 19, 2022  2 years ago
A new study by researchers from the Houston Methodist DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center at Houston Methodist Hospital has demonstrated that SARS-CoV-2 infections results in decreased myocardial blood flow which can impact cardiovascular health and also cause a variety of other heart related issues especially in Long COVID patients.   According to the study team, their research findings su...
Source: Medical News - Long COVID - Viral Persistence  Aug 16, 2022  2 years ago
Long COVID-19 Research: A new study by researchers from the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at University of Kansas-USA has revealed that many Long COVID-19 patients have higher levels of circulating SARS-CoV-2 Viral RNA compared to individuals with acute COVID-19 infection!   For a long time already, Thailand Medical News has been warning that SARS-CoV-2 viral persistence ...
Source: Medical News - Long COVID -Epstein-Barr Virus Reactivation  Aug 14, 2022  2 years ago
A new Long COVID study lead by Yale Immunology Professor Dr Akiko Iwasaki, PhD that involved 215 individuals from Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City and Yale New Haven Hospital in Connecticut has interesting found that Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV) reactivation and low cortisol levels are common in many Long COVID patients. The study which also had many other interesting findings is the first study ...
Source: Medical News - Long COVID Research  Aug 13, 2022  2 years ago
Long COVID Research: A new study lead by researchers from the University of Birmingham-UK has found that sexual dysfunction and hair loss is joining fatigue and brain fog as leading Long COVID issues.   SARS-CoV-2 infections are associated with a range of persistent symptoms impacting everyday functioning, known as post-COVID-19 condition or long COVID.   The Long COVID Research study ...
Source: Medical News - COVID-19 Research  Aug 12, 2022  2 years ago
COVID-19 Research: A new study by German researchers from University Hospital Münster has alarmingly found that that SARS-CoV-2 virus leaves a persistent capillary rarefication (a reduction in vascular density) even 18 months after infection!   Capillary rarefaction is a hallmark of fibrotic disease and reduces blood perfusion and oxygen delivery. Alterations in intracellular pO2 have ...
Source: Medical News - Pediatric Long COVID  Aug 11, 2022  2 years ago
Pediatric Long COVID: A new study by researchers from The University of Texas (UT) Health Science Center at Houston-USA has found that children who contracted mild COVID-19 can still develop Long COVID symptoms after ‘recovery’.   The Pediatric Long COVID study findings serve as warnings to parents, teachers and also physicians that children who had contracted COVID-19 irrespect...
Source: Long COVID - ACTH Secretion Impairment  Aug 10, 2022  2 years ago
Long COVID: Unknown to many, SARS-CoV-2 infections can also cause a variety of disruptions or dysregulation of the endocrine system causing the impairment of various hormones critical for life sustenance. Some of the Long COVID symptom manifestations are actually due to impairment of certain hormone secretions.   In this documented case study, researchers from Division of Diabetes and Endoc...
Source: NeuroCOVID  Aug 07, 2022  2 years ago
NeuroCOVID: Researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital-USA and Meso Scale Diagnostics, LLC. (MSD), Maryland-USA have identified two biomarkers ie GFAP (Glial fibrillary astrocytic protein) and NF-L (Neurofilament light chain) of which their elevated levels typically indicate the presence of NeuroCOVID or neurological sequelae in Long COVID patients.   It has been found that individua...
Source: Medical News- Long COVID Peripheral Neuropathy   Jul 22, 2022  2 years ago
A new study by researchers from the People’s Hospital, Hebei Province-China, the Peking University, Beijing-China, North China University of Science and Technology, Hebei Province- China and the Hebei University of Chinese Medicine-China has alarmingly found that many Post COVID individuals will suffer from long term peripheral nerve demyelination and axonal loss and the risk of such damage ...
Source: Long COVID Research  Jul 15, 2022  2 years ago
Long COVID Research: A new multi-omics study by researchers from the Medical University of Vienna-Austria, the University of Applied Sciences FH Campus Wien-Austria and the University of Vienna -Austria has discovered a unique anti-inflammatory immune signature and metabolic alterations in individuals with Long COVID.   The Long COVID Research findings showed that the proportions of cytokin...
Source: Neuropathogenic BA.5 Variant  Jul 13, 2022  2 years ago
Neuropathogenic BA.5 Variant: Despite studies showing that the BA.5 variant has switched to utilizing the TMPRSS2 proteins more efficiency to gain entry into the host cells and has a tropism towards the lung tissues, we are not witnessing a great increase in numbers of those infected developing ARDs or pneumonia and requiring supplemental oxygen or the need for ventilators except for those who are...
Source: Medical News - COVID-19 - Thrombosis  Jul 13, 2022  2 years ago
A new Swedish study led by researchers from Umeå University has found that all those who have been infected with the COVID-19 disease have an increased risk of serious blood clots for up to six months. The study that also involved scientists from the University of Helsinki-Finland, Helsinki University Hospital-Finland and The Open University, Milton Keynes-UK found that the increased risks ...
Source: Long COVID - Neuroinflammation  Jul 09, 2022  2 years ago
Long COVID: Yet another study, this time by researchers from Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University-USA also demonstrated that even mild SARS-CoV-2 infections lead to brain inflammation, brain damage and also cognitive issues!   Numerous clinical evidences suggest that patients with long COVID experience cognitive abnormalities. However, these clinical data are mostly associat...
Source: Long COVID or PASC  Jul 09, 2022  2 years ago
A new murine study by researchers from the University of North Carolina at White Chapel-USA has found that SARS-CoV-2 infections ultimately lead to chronic pulmonary epithelial and immune cell dysfunction, including the development of fibrosis.   It is already known that a subset of individuals who recover from COVID-19 disease develop what is known as Long COVID or post-acute sequelae of S...
Source: Long COVID - Research  Jul 04, 2022  2 years ago
Long COVID research: A new study by researchers from Northwestern University, Chicago-USA has found that even asymptomatic or mild to moderate SARS-CoV-2 infections can cause direct and indirect neuromuscular damage to the diaphragm resulting in the Long COVID manifestations of fatigue and dyspnea!   The diaphragm, located below the lungs and heart, is the major muscle of respiration. It is...
Source: Long COVID  Jun 24, 2022  2 years ago
A new study by researchers from the Medical University of South Carolina-USA and The City College of New York has found that home-based transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation (taVNS) therapy can help in Long COVID.   While the COVID-19 pandemic has now impacted the world for over two years, the persistent secondary neuropsychiatric effects are still not fully understood.   Ma...
Source: SARS-CoV-2-DNA Damage  Jun 14, 2022  2 years ago
SARS-CoV-2-DNA Damage: A new study by researchers from the Department of Genomic Medicine and Environmental Toxicology at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México has found that the SARS-CoV-2 protein Nsp13 is able to cause DNA damage and dysregulate tumor suppressor gene P53, increasing the risk of cancer to those who have been exposed to the protein! The study findings adds to t...
Source : Long COVID - Cognitive and Brain Damage  Jun 12, 2022  2 years ago
Long COVID: A new study by researchers from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro- Brazil has found that various cognitive issues and impairment that is manifestated in Long COVID is actually caused by the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein that induces long-term TLR4-mediated synapse issues. The study has possible implicationa not only for those infected by the COVID-19 disease but also those exposed to...
Source: SARS-CoV-2 Research - STRA6  Jun 06, 2022  2 years ago
SARS-CoV-2 Research: A study by researchers from Damietta University-Egypt, Kafrelsheikh University-Egypt, Mahala Hepatology Teaching Hospital-Egypt, Federal University of Alfenas-Brazil, Al Azhar University-Egypt and the Ministry of health-Saudia Arabia has found that the SARS-CoV-2 virus is also able to bind with the STRA6 receptors found in the human host to gain entry in to neurons, immune cel...
Source; Long COVID News  Jun 05, 2022  2 years ago
Long COVID: A new study by researchers from Vrije Universiteit-Netherlands, University of Amsterdam-Netherlands and the University Medical Centre Utrecht-Netherlands has shockingly revealed that most Post-COVID individuals typically suffer continuous and massive brain neuroinflammation that contributes to various Long COVID manifestations.   The study involving the use of a new sensitive ra...
Source: SARS-CoV-2 BF.1 Variant  Jun 03, 2022  2 years ago
Yet another divergent BA.5 subvariant has emerged with concerning mutations and scientist have designated the new sub-lineage as the BF.1 variant.   This new BA.5 variant that originated from the BA.5.2 subvariant and was initially classified as the BA.5.2.1 subvariant has the defining mutations G11837T (ORF1a:V3858L) (nsp6:V289L). https://github.com/cov-lineages/pango-designation/issues/61...
Source: Medical News - Long COVID  May 25, 2022  2 years ago
Long COVID: A new study by researchers from the School of Clinical Medicine, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, the University of Hong Kong has found that SARS-CoV-2 infections also causes inflammatory bone loss leading to Long COVID skeletal health issues!   A past multi-center study showed that COVID-19 patients requiring intensive care had significantly lower bone mineral density (BMD) tha...
Source: Medical News - NeuroCOVID  May 19, 2022  2 years ago
NeuroCOVID: A new study by researchers from the Institute for Neuroscience at Thomas Jefferson University- Philadelphia, East Carolina University and New York University has discovered findings that adds to the growing evidence that SARS-CoV-2 infections, irrespective of the nature of the infection ie whether asymptomatic or symptomatic, mild, moderate or severe, will lead to increased risk of bra...
Source: Medical News - Long COVID  May 12, 2022  2 years ago
A new study by researchers from the Haemostasis Research Unit at the University College London-UK and the University College London Hospital-UK has found that most Post COVID individuals have an abnormal blood clotting condition due to an elevated Von Willebrand Factor (VWF) antigen (Ag): ADAMTS13 ratio that generally impairs exercise capacity in most of these individuals.   Long-COVID or P...
Source: Long COVID  Apr 25, 2022  2 years ago
Long COVID: A new study by researchers from the  PHOSP-COVID Collaborative Group which is a consortium of over 168 researchers focused on Long COVID research and which is led by the National Institute for Health Research Leicester Biomedical Research Centre, University of Leicester-UK has found that Long COVID is more predominant than though with only 1 out of 4 hospitalized COVID-19 patients...
Source: Long COVID - Muscle Weakness And Myalgia  Apr 19, 2022  2 years ago
A new study by researchers from State University of Para, Belém-Brazil has found that the conditions of fatigue, muscle weakness, myalgia, and decline in physical and functional performance typically manifested in Long COVID is due to the SARS-CoV-2 virus using the host cellular machinery of the muscle cells for replication, which causes downregulation of cellular muscle functions, resultin...