The price of a pre-pandemic lifestyle
As COVID numbers fall and mandates lift, the question remains: Is it possible to avoid trade-offs between returning to pre-pandemic lifestyles and an uptick...
COVID-19 can infect heart’s pacemaker cells, study finds
Scientists from Weill Cornell Medicine and elsewhere found the SARS-CoV-2 virus can infect specialized pacemaker cells that maintain the heart’s rhythmic beat, setting off...
Cancer treatment and diagnosis backlogs during COVID-19 may affect cancer survival
Unlike the COVID-19 pandemic, the cancer pandemic has raged on for centuries, though it similarly afflicts people in all corners of the world.
In 2020...
Duke study finds the cause of COVID vaccine resistance
Scientists from Duke University found the cause of covid-19 vaccine resistance.
The research is published in PNAS Nexus and was conducted by Terrie Moffitt et...
Scientists find a better way to detect severe COVID-19 early
Scientists from the University of Utah found a family of proteins that is strongly increased in the saliva of patients hospitalized with COVID-19.
The proteins,...
Scientists conduct first human challenge study to show how COVID-19 attacks
A human challenge study also called a controlled human infection trial, is a type of clinical trial for a vaccine or other pharmaceutical involving...
COVID-19 has lingering impacts on brain, scientists find
COVID-19 patients commonly report having headaches, confusion and other neurological symptoms, but doctors don't fully understand how the disease targets the brain during infection.
Scientists...
Common coronavirus infections cannot produce antibodies against COVID-19
Although SARS-CoV-2 has taken the world by storm, it's not the only coronavirus that can infect humans.
But unlike SARS-CoV-2, common human coronaviruses (HCoVs) generally...
This type of drug may help reduce ‘long COVID’ symptoms
Scientists from the University of California, Irvine found antihistamines may provide relief for the millions of people suffering from the painful, debilitating symptoms of...
Why diabetes is a big risk factor for severe COVID-19
More than 40% of hospitalized individuals with COVID-19 have diabetes. But why is having diabetes a major risk factor for a more serious COVID-19...