Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Impacts of COVID on the immune system
So you've had COVID and have now recovered. You don't have ongoing symptoms and luckily, you don't seem to have developed long COVID.
Sep 19, 2022
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News tagged with respiratory conditions
Medical research
International study discovers bacteria previously thought harmless can worsen existing lung disease
A team of international scientists led by the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) has discovered that Neisseria—a genus of bacteria that lives in the human body—is not as harmless as previously ...
Sep 14, 2022
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Long COVID-19 may stem from an overactive immune response in the lungs
Viruses that cause respiratory diseases like the flu and COVID-19 can lead to mild to severe symptoms within the first few weeks of infection. These symptoms typically resolve within a few more weeks, sometimes with the help ...
Aug 5, 2022
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Health
Artificial intelligence edges closer to the clinic
The beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic presented a huge challenge to healthcare workers. Doctors struggled to predict how different patients would fare under treatment against the novel SARS-CoV-2 virus. Deciding how to triage ...
Aug 2, 2022
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Pregnant woman wins 22-day-long battle against COVID-19
Doctors in Croatia give details of a pregnant COVID-19 patient's 22-day-long battle for survival, in a case report being presented at Euroanaesthesia, the annual meeting of the European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive ...
Jun 5, 2022
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Unvaccinated people with heart problems up to nine times more likely to die, suffer serious COVID-19 complications
Researchers from Queen Mary University of London have combined evidence from 110 previous COVID-19 studies and found that unvaccinated individuals who contract the virus when they already have high blood pressure, diabetes ...
May 4, 2022
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Oestrogen levels linked to risk of COVID-19 death in older women
An older woman's oestrogen levels may be linked to her chances of dying from COVID-19, with higher levels of the hormone seemingly protective against severe infection, suggests research published in the open access journal ...
Feb 14, 2022
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Severe COVID-19 patients suffer alterations on their tissue microcirculation
Since the detection of the first SARS-Cov-2 infection cases in November 2019, more than 250 million people worldwide have been diagnosed with the disease, and more than 5 million have died.
Nov 23, 2021
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Pediatrics
Parents of children with chronic lung conditions concerned with safety and side effects of COVID-19 vaccine
With the emergence of different SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern including the more transmissible Delta variant, children are more likely to become infected with COVID-19 than with previous variants. Although in most countries ...
Oct 5, 2021
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Inflammatory disorders
9/11 survivors' exposure to toxic dust and the chronic health conditions that followed
The 9/11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York resulted in the loss of 2,753 people in the Twin Towers and surrounding area. After the attack, more than 100,000 responders and recovery workers from every ...
Sep 13, 2021
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