COVID is linked to loss of brain tissue, but correlation doesn’t prove causation
COVID can lead to long-term loss of brain tissue. This is a worrying find, which comes against the backdrop of numerous reports of long COVID.
Everything you need to know about stuffy and runny noses
What's worse than a runny nose? A runny nose and stuffy nose at the same time.
Can you get COVID-19 booster and flu shot at the same time?
With flu season right around the corner in the United States, and Omicron subvariants of the coronavirus still circulating, many people are wondering if they should get their influenza vaccine and the latest COVID-19 booster shot together.
What causes severe COVID symptoms?
Since the earliest months of the COVID-19 pandemic, physicians and scientists worldwide have been working to understand how exactly the virus makes us sick.
That...
COVID-19 surges linked to spike in heart attacks
Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, heart attacks were the leading cause of death worldwide but were steadily on the decline.
In a study from Cedars-Sinai,...
Long COVID common in U.S. adults with prior COVID-19 infection
Some people who have been infected with the virus that causes COVID-19 can experience long-term effects from their infection, known as post-COVID conditions (PCC)...
COVID vaccines don’t just benefit physical health – they improve mental health too
The considerable physical health benefits of COVID vaccines, in particular, the significantly reduced risk of serious illness, hospitalisation and death from the virus, are...
Yale designs new nasal vaccine to fight COVID-19
Intramuscular vaccine shots, which are what most people have received to protect against COVID-19 infection, provide a broad-based immune response throughout the body and...
New evidence on rare blood clots after COVID-19 vaccination
Scientists found new evidence on the risk of developing this very rare blood-clotting condition after COVID-19 vaccination.
COVID-19 virus is becoming less severe, study finds
In a study from Massachusetts General Hospital, scientists examined the severity of the SARS-CoV-2 omicron BA.2 subvariant (the strain making a re-emergence this fall).
They...