Public Health

Sleep disorders after COVID-19

Recently, scientists conducted a study on sleep disorders, mood and fatigue after COVID-19. They found these factors are interrelated and recommend a comprehensive approach to...

Higher risk of heart disease could mean much higher risk of severe COVID-19

Scientists found that people with an elevated risk of developing a stroke or heart attack over the next 10 years who contract COVID-19, are...

Your mental health may affect your chances of breakthrough COVID-19

Scientists from UC San Francisco found that people who are vaccinated against SARS-CoV-2, and have a history of certain mental conditions, have a heightened...

COVID-19 vaccines, boosters effectively prevent severe reinfection

Scientists from the CDC found if you already got COVID-19, vaccines and boosters could protect against hospitalization from COVID -19 reinfection. The research is published...

Vaccination can strongly cut viral load in COVID-19 infection

Scientists from the University of Geneva and elsewhere found that vaccination greatly reduces infectious viral load in COVID-19. They measured the infectious viral load of...

This oral drug could reduce COVID-19 death risk by 55%

Scientists from Veru Inc., an oncology biopharmaceutical company, found a novel COVID-19 drug reduces deaths by 55% in patients at high risk for Acute...

Long COVID affects 1 in 5 people following infection

Vaccination, masks and better indoor air are our best protections. Many patients recover from COVID within a week or two, but at least one in five...

Is five days of COVID isolation enough?

When the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said in January it was shifting its recommended isolation period for people infected with COVID-19...

This drug is effective in COVID-19 patients

Scientists from Spain confirmed that a drug protease inhibitor aprotinin prevented cells to be infected by the COVID-19 virus. They found that patients receiving an...

Scientists find the cause of loss of smell in COVID-19

Scientists from Johns Hopkins Medicine found that inflammation caused by COVID-19, rather than the virus itself, may lead to loss of smell. They found that...