This study confirms a strong link between COVID and stroke
Ever since the coronavirus became a widespread global pandemic, medical researchers have sought to understand how the virus impacts other medical ailments, especially neurological...
What is flu season likely to bring in an era of COVID-19?
The emergence of COVID-19 has brought with it a steep decline in another—but common—viral infection: the flu.
As the United States prepares for the 2021–22 influenza...
This stuff adds fuel to COVID-19 inflammation, blood clots
In a recent study published in JCI Insight, researchers found another functional autoantibody in COVID-19 patients that contributes to the disease’s development and the...
This study shows 16 drugs could treat COVID-19
In a recent study is published in Pharmaceutics, researchers found a new way to identify existing medicines that could be applied to treat COVID-19.
This...
Fitness didn’t keep him from heart problems or COVID-19, but it did help him...
About a month into the COVID-19 pandemic, LeCount Holmes saw on television that Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan was within a mile of his house...
People doing this work are 3 times more likely to get COVID-19
In a recent study published in the journal Thorax, researchers found that people who work shifts appear to be much more likely to end...
COVID-19 vaccine booster dose can reduce infection in those 60 and older
In a new study from the Weizmann Institute of Science, researchers found among Israeli adults aged 60 years and older, those receiving a third...
This heart problem linked to 5 times higher death risk in COVID-19
In a recent study published in Hypertension, researchers found that hospitalized COVID-19 patients with early, undetected heart failure were nearly 5 times more likely...
Many Americans take immune-weakening drugs that may reduce COVID vaccine effects
In a recent study published in JAMA Network Open, researchers found that nearly 3% of insured U.S. adults under 65 take medications that weaken...
The difference between COVID-19 ‘third doses’ and ‘boosters’
As hospitalizations surge nationwide due to unvaccinated patients with COVID-19, vaccines are a crucial tool to prevent severe disease and overwhelmed hospital systems.
More than...