Solving the puzzle of Long Covid
Long Covid provides an opportunity to understand how acute infections cause chronic disease
Research Preview: Science Magazine – Feb 23, 2024
Tag Archives: Long Covid
Research Preview: Science Magazine -January 26, 2024
How giant ‘water batteries’ could make green power reliable
For times when wind and solar fall short, some utilities are turning to an old technology called pumped storage hydropower
A ghostly quasiparticle rooted in a century-old Italian mystery could unlock quantum computing’s potential
Before he disappeared, Ettore Majorana made a strange prediction. Researchers are still hunting for the truth about him—and his namesake particles
Research Preview: Science Magazine -January 19, 2024
Immune damage in Long Covid
Links between the complement and coagulation systems could lead to Long Covid therapies
Second image of ‘shadow’ confirms giant black hole is real
To zoom in farther, Event Horizon Telescope wants to add more radio dishes to its network—and go to space
Science Review: Scientific American – March 2023
Long COVID Now Looks like a Neurological Disease, Helping Doctors to Focus Treatments
The causes of long COVID, which disables millions, may come together in the brain and nervous system
Tiny Bubbles of Quark-Gluon Plasma Re-create the Early Universe
New experiments can re-create the young cosmos, when it was a mash of fundamental particles, more precisely than ever before
Babies Are Born with an Innate Number Sense
Plato was right: newborns do math
Aging: Healthy Longevity Journal – December 2022
Long COVID and older people
Long COVID is a poorly understood condition, with a wide spectrum of effects on multiple body systems and variable presentation in different individuals. Long COVID is of particular concern among older people (ie, aged 65 years or older), who are at greater risk than younger people of persisting symptoms associated with COVID-19. In addition, COVID-19 might trigger or exacerbate chronic conditions that occur commonly in older people, such as cardiovascular diseases, respiratory diseases, neurodegenerative conditions, and functional decline.
Quantum Healthy Longevity for healthy people, planet, and growth
It is widely thought that lifespans are increasing globally. However, life expectancy has begun to stagnate in the UK, and is falling in more than 50 countries including the USA. Lifespan stagnation or decrease is a consequence of socioeconomic inequalities, lifestyle factors, and the COVID-19 pandemic. In the UK, the National Health Service spends vast sums treating chronic diseases; by some estimates, 40% of its costs go to treating preventable conditions.
Is age-related hearing loss a potentially modifiable risk factor for dementia?
The relationship of measures of age-related hearing loss such as pure-tone autiometry might not be as consistently associated with risk of dementia as previous studies have suggested. Peripheral age-related hearing loss has been posited as a midlife risk factor for dementia.
Preview: Science News Magazine – Nov 5, 2022
Where are the long COVID clinics?
For people with long COVID, finding a place to get appropriate medical care is a challenge.
NASA’s DART mission successfully shoved an asteroid
Cooperative sperm outrun loners in the mating race
Previews: The Guardian Weekly – October 21, 2022
Living with long Covid. Plus Xi Jinping’s historic party congress
The October 21, 2022 cover story this week steps back from the news agenda to explore the impact of living with long Covid. For millions of people worldwide who have survived initial infection with the virus, recovery is slow. Symptoms such as breathlessness, fatigue and loss of smell or taste persist for months and, as our science editor Ian Sample explains, treatments that work for some may not be successful for others.
This week delegates to the Chinese Communist party’s 20th congress are in Beijing where they are expected to rubber stamp Xi Jinping’s historic third term as leader. Our big story looks at what the president’s supremacy means for the country and its closest neighbour – Taiwan – which lives in the shadow of Xi’s avowed intention to bring the island back under China’s tutelage.
Medicine: Why Long Covid Is Still Not Understood
Even mild COVID-19 is at least correlated with a startlingly wide spectrum of seemingly every illness. We need a much better taxonomy to address people’s suffering.
From The Atlantic, October 5, 2022:
The cases of long covid that turn up in news reports, the medical literature, and in the offices of doctors like me fall into a few rough (and sometimes overlapping) categories. The first seems most readily explainable: the combination of organ damage, often profound physical debilitation, and poor mental health inflicted by severe pneumonia and resultant critical illness.
This serious long-term COVID-19 complication gets relatively little media attention despite its severity. The coronavirus can cause acute respiratory distress syndrome, the gravest form of pneumonia, which can in turn provoke a spiral of inflammation and injury that can end up taking down virtually every organ. I have seen many such complications in the ICU: failing hearts, collapsed lungs, failed kidneys, brain hemorrhages, limbs cut off from blood flow, and more. More than 7 million COVID-19 hospitalizations occurred in the United States before the Omicron wave, suggesting that millions could be left with damaged lungs or complications of critical illness. Whether these patients’ needs for care and rehabilitation are being adequately (and equitably) met is unclear: Ensuring that they are is an urgent priority.
Research Preview: Science Magazine – Sept 16, 2022
Seasonal monsoon rainfall replenishes groundwater reserves in the Bengal basin of Bangladesh thanks to the region’s seemingly counterintuitive intensive dry-season irrigation practices, a new Science study finds.
Europe’s energy crisis hits science hard
Supercomputing and accelerator centers struggle with surging gas and electricity prices
Private venture tackles Long Covid, aims to test drugs soon
Initiative to explore whether coronavirus lingers in patients
U.S. Antarctic Program has ignored sexual harassment
Decades of complaints have gone unheeded by NSF and contractors managing operations, employees say
Polio returns in rich countries, but big outbreaks are unlikely
As New York state declares an emergency, experts are far more worried about a resurgence in low-income countries
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