LongCovid
The German Federal Ministry of Health (Bundesministerium für Gesundheit) just launched a website (www.bmg-longcovid.de) with relevant information about Long COVID. This website will provide the latest scientific findings and…
Excellent new review article (Nature Reviews Immunology)! “Here, we focus on current thinking about the pathophysiology of long COVID and the evidence for potential underpinning mechanisms. It will…
How much does Long COVID cost? This new study published by BMC Health Services Research aimed to project the economic, health care, and pension costs due to long/post-COVID-19 syndrome with…
The 1st genome-wide hunt to find genetic risk factors for long COVID has identified a DNA sequence near a gene called FOXP4, which is active in the lungs and…
Very interesting opinion article published by Scientific American: “We need to plan for a future where millions of survivors are chronically ill”. This publication highlights the four competences/areas that…
The authors of this publication conducted a systematic review to determine the prevalence of persistent symptoms, functional disability, or pathological changes in adults or children at least 12…
New review article published by the Cell Death Discovery journal (Nature). “This review mainly provides the molecular foundations for understanding the mechanism of SARS-CoV-2 invading human brain and…
The British Medical Association just published a very interesting paper showing the impact post-acute COVID symptoms on the medical workforce, personally and professionally in the UK. This publication…
Excellent new article published by Outlook magazine on Ziyad Al-Aly, nephrologist and clinical epidemiologist for the Institute for Public Health at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Dr.…
Very interesting new article on Long COVID published by Sociology of Health and Illness (Wiley). ‘I am just a shadow of who I used to be’—Exploring existential loss of identity…