In a major discovery, a team of scientists discovered disruption to the blood vessels in the brains of patients suffering from Long Covid and ‘brain fog’. The team from Trinity College Dublin showed that this blood vessel “leakiness” was able to objectively distinguish those patients with brain fog and cognitive decline compared to patients suffering from Long Covid but not with brain fog.
One in nine adults in the US who have ever had Covid-19 continue to experience Long Covid with a wide range of symptoms, according to new data of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). To bolster Long Covid research efforts, the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced on Tuesday that it is investing an additional $515 million over the next four years into the Researching Covid to Enhance Recovery (RECOVER) Initiative, a nationwide research program to fully understand, diagnose and treat Long Covid.
US pharma giant Pfizer’s antiviral drug Paxlovid (Nirmatrelvir-ritonavir) does not reduce the risk of developing long Covid for vaccinated, non-hospitalised individuals, according to a study.
A team of researchers from the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) revealed that among Paxlovid users, a higher proportion of individuals with acute symptoms rebound and test-positivity than previously reported.
Australian researchers, including one of Indian-origin, have developed a new drug that could help long Covid symptoms including fatigue, breathlessness and brain fog, affecting between 10 per cent and 20 per cent of the millions infected with Covid-19.
A new health update comes from Duke Univeristy. According to a team of scientists led by Duke Health report, the reason some people do not recover their sense of smell after Covid-19 is due to an ongoing immune assault on olfactory nerve cells and an associated decrease in the number of those cells.
People suffering from serious long-term symptoms of coronavirus disease, also known as Long Covid, may qualify as “disability” under federal law, US President Joe Biden has said.
Overcoming recession concerns, several Indian American entrepreneurial accelerators, service providers, and investors with an objective to work in a collaborative way to boost startups, attended the year’s first networking event on January 21 at FalconX in Milpitas, California. The main host was the American Tamil Entrepreneurs Association (ATEA), a non-profit organization.
The Foundation for India and Indian Diaspora Studies (FIIDS) launched a campaign to promote Indian American engagement in the 2022 general election on Nov 8.
On the CBS ’60 Minutes’ TV show on Sunday, Biden said: “The pandemic is over. We still have a problem with Covid. We’re still doing a lot of work on it. It’s… but the pandemic is over”.
Partha Chakraborty- Sometime early in 1970’s at the B.R. Singh Railway Hospital in Kolkata, India, my mother lay unconscious on an operating table. That morning she was undergoing a C-Section to bring me to this world but all signs were looking ominous. For the past eight months, she had been going through a cocktail of […]
Ritu Jha- Starting Tuesday, June 21, COVID-19 vaccines for children aged six months to five years will be available in the United States. On June 18, advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommended the vaccines for children as young as six months old. The same day, CDC director Rochelle Walensky […]
Ritu Jha- Jayakumar Rajadas, director of the Regenerative Biomaterials Lab (ADDReB) at Stanford University, works on developing therapeutic, and vaccine solutions aimed mainly toward helping people who are either unable to access or take the COVID-19 vaccine for medical reasons. In an interview with indica, Rajadas said that when he first began addressing the problem […]
An Indian-American scientist who specializes in neuroimmunology has discovered that long Covid is affecting human brains and nervous systems at a deeper level.
