Yale scientists find an important cause of severe COVID-19
Scientists from Yale University have identified a particular immune response pathway that leads to severe illness and death in people infected by the SARS-CoV-2...
How COVID-19 triggers massive inflammation
Scientists from Boston Children's Hospital found why COVID-19 causes severe inflammation in some people, leading to acute respiratory distress and multi-organ damage.
They also found...
COVID-19 vaccines lower the death risk in people with prior infection
Scientists from Stanford Medicine found that people who have recovered from COVID-19 still benefit from vaccination.
They found clear evidence that COVID-19 vaccines are highly...
COVID-19 linked to high risk of serious blood clots
Scientists from Umeå Universitet found an increased risk of deep vein thrombosis (a blood clot in the leg) up to three months after COVID-19...
The pandemic’s ripple effects on health have begun. What can we do now?
For more than two years, COVID-19's direct harm has been visible in overflowing intensive care wards and grim statistics. Now, some of its indirect...
How worried should you be about BA.2?
The omicron variant swept around the globe, bringing a significant surge in COVID-19 cases and a resurgence of public health concerns about the pandemic...
Scientists find why people with blood type O have lower COVID-19 risk
Many studies have found that blood type affects the risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection, with blood Type O being less susceptible and non-O blood types...
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...