Common gout drug cannot reduce severe COVID-19 or death
In a new study, researchers found colchicine, a cheap anti-inflammatory drug normally used to treat gout, doesn't lessen COVID-19 severity or stave off the...
What happens to our immune systems when we get a booster?
Questions about COVID-19 vaccine boosters—like who is eligible and how to choose one—have dominated scientific discussions, news headlines, and dinner-table conversations recently, but the...
What are the links between COVID-19, brain harm and dementia risk?
Headaches, brain fog and that peculiar inability to smell or taste things. By now most people know these symptoms as a few of the...
This finding may lead to new COVID-19 vaccines
In a new study from UCL Infection & Immunity, researchers found next-generation vaccines for COVID-19 should aim to induce an immune response against 'replication...
Testing positive for COVID-19 linked to fatigue, mental illness, and sleep problems
In a new study from The University of Manchester, researchers found those who tested positive for COVID-19 (confirmed by a PCR test) had an...
Safe Thanksgiving playbook as new COVID surge expected
As the U.S. braces for a new surge of COVID-19 cases expected to start hitting around Thanksgiving, Northwestern Medicine experts offer a playbook to...
COVID-19: The older you are, the more antibodies you have
With the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 variants worldwide, the pandemic's spread is accelerating.
In a new study from Université de Montréal, researchers found that those who...
COVID patients on this depression drug are less likely to die
In a new study from UC San Francisco, researchers found that people taking a class of antidepressants called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), particularly...
This familiar drug may help treat COVID-19
For the past year and a half, the COVID-19 pandemic has continued to engulf the globe, fueled in part by novel variants and the...
Scientists find how COVID-19 damages lungs
In a new study from the National Institutes of Health, researchers found lung autopsy and plasma samples from people who died of COVID-19 have...