Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Who'll get long COVID? Just a look at a patient gives clues
Sometimes just looking at a person can give clues to their likelihood of developing long COVID after a bout with the virus.
Jul 19, 2022
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Genetics
Women's heart attacks are often missed. This gene may help explain why.
When diagnostic tests for the heart were first created, scientists at the time did not fully consider that no two bodies are the same, especially between the sexes.
Jun 23, 2022
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Heart disease risk and depression: A new study explores whether the two may be linked
For generations, people have been fascinated by the links between mind and body. For example, do people really die of a broken heart? Does a healthy mind indicate a healthy body?
Apr 15, 2022
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Cardiology
Heart issues after COVID-19 uncommon in children and young adults, more research needed
Heart complications are uncommon, yet treatable for children and young adults after COVID-19 disease or SARS-CoV-2 infection, according to a new scientific statement from the American Heart Association that details what has ...
Apr 11, 2022
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Cardiology
Shortness of breath heralds worse survival than chest pain for heart attack patients
Just 76% of heart attack patients with dyspnoea or fatigue as their main symptom are alive at one year compared to 94% of those with chest pain as the predominant feature. That's the finding of research presented today at ...
Mar 20, 2022
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Medical research
Long COVID could be linked to the effects of SARS-CoV-2 on the vagus nerve
New research to be presented at this year's European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID 2022, Lisbon, 23–26 April) suggests that many of the symptoms connected to post-COVID syndrome (PCC, ...
Feb 14, 2022
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
EXPLAINER: What to do if you test positive for COVID-19
You've tested positive for COVID-19. Now what?
Dec 22, 2021
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Prolonged brain dysfunction in COVID-19 survivors: A pandemic in its own right
One in three survivors of COVID-19, those more commonly referred to as COVID-19 long-haulers, suffered from neurologic or psychiatric disability six months after infection, a recent landmark study of more than 200,000 post-COVID-19 ...
Apr 16, 2021
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Psychology & Psychiatry
The stressors of stress on your body and behavior
Stress symptoms may be affecting your health, even though you might not realize it. You may think illness is to blame for that irritating headache, your frequent insomnia or your decreased productivity at work. But stress ...
Apr 9, 2021
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Medications
Trial finds no overall effect of statins on muscle pain
A trial published by The BMJ today finds no overall effect of statins on the frequency or severity of muscle symptoms compared with placebo in people who had previously reported severe muscle symptoms when taking statins.
Feb 24, 2021
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