Based on studies published through July 2021, most SARS-CoV-2 infections were not persistently asymptomatic, and asymptomatic infections were less infectious…
Breakthrough COVID-19 cases resulting in infections, hospitalizations and deaths are significantly more likely in cancer and Alzheimer’s patients, according to…
Brain fog, headaches, insomnia are some of the neurological symptoms doctors have observed in COVID-19 patients. Neurological sequelae after a…
According to a study published today in Blood Advances, people suffering from long COVID may face an increased risk of…
Scientists at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) have identified a promising drug candidate for the…
Globally, breakthrough COVID-19 infections among vaccinated people are increasing, raising concerns about the durability of protection against emerging, highly contagious…
New research being presented at this year’s European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases (ECCMID) in Lisbon, Portugal (23-26…
A new study from the from the University of Missouri School of Medicine and MU Health Care shows patients hospitalized…
Researchers at La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI) have found that Zika virus can mutate to become more infective—and potentially…
A new analysis of data on the ‘COVID-19 pill’ molnupiravir shows it appears to clear active SARS-CoV-2 virus equally well…
Researchers have found that receiving a COVID-19 vaccine during pregnancy does not lead to increases in the frequency of complications…
Millions of Americans have needed hospitalization for COVID-19 since the pandemic began, including hundreds of thousands in the recent Omicron…
A new study has analysed over 3000 proteins to identify which are causally linked to the development of severe COVID-19….
New research led by the Doherty Institute has found the SARS-CoV-2 virus has the ability to momentarily accelerate its evolutionary…
With the COVID-19 pandemic entering its third year, efforts to mitigate the risk for infection remain vitally important, especially for…
Researchers from Yale University, University of Basel, University of Antwerp, CDDEP and other institutions recently published ‘Estimating the effect of…
Teams at the Institut Pasteur, CNRS, Vaccine Research Institute (VRI) and Université de Paris have discovered a new function of…
More than half of nurses had difficulty sleeping during the first six months of the COVID-19 pandemic—and getting less sleep…
COVID-19 vaccination in either partner does not appear to affect fertility, according to new research led by Boston University School…
The placebo effect is the well-known phenomenon of a person’s physical or mental health improving after taking a treatment with…
Even though clinical trials haven’t shown it works against COVID-19, doctors continue to prescribe ivermectin – and a new study…
The effectiveness of face masks has been a hotly debated topic since the emergence of COVID-19. However, a new study…
The Omicron variant was detected for the first time in South Africa in November 2021 and has since spread to…
Parenting communities on Facebook were subject to a powerful misinformation campaign early in the COVID-19 pandemic that pulled them closer…
A Cleveland Clinic study shows that among patients with obesity, prior weight loss achieved with bariatric surgery was associated with…
COVID-19 lockdown measures appear to have had drastically different effects on men and women living with chronic pain, with women…
Scientists have discovered a new potential treatment that has the ability to reverse antibiotic resistance in bacteria that cause conditions…
A new rapid systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials shows zinc can prevent symptoms and shorten the duration…
Scientists at La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), have found a possible way to…
Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) is one of the most common bacterial infections worldwide, affecting more than 40 % of the…