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Business school competition centers Long COVID and IACCs
At this case competition in Ann Arbor, Michigan, the winning team sought to better connect people with IACCs and healthcare providers who serve them.
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Metformin has been shown to reduce the risk of Long COVID. Why isn’t it more widely used?
Recent studies add evidence to a prior phase 3 clinical trial, suggesting that taking the diabetes drug during acute COVID-19 reduces the risk of long-term symptoms.
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NBA player Kristaps Porziņģis shares POTS diagnosis
Earlier this week, professional basketball player Kristaps Porziņģis shared his diagnosis of postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS). The 30-year-old player began facing severe health challenges this spring while playing for the Celtics that made running and exercise extremely difficult. While standing at rest he said his heart rate could be as high as 130. “It…
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Shutdown leaves gaps in states’ health data, possibly endangering lives
As the federal shutdown continues, states have been forced to fall back on their own resources to spot disease outbreaks — just as respiratory illness season begins.
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Nicotine patches help relieve symptoms in some people with Long COVID. Can the science behind it lead to future therapies?
Some people with Long COVID and the providers who were treating them wondered if nicotine, delivered by a mechanism other than cigarettes, might help with the chronic disease. For the next several years, white papers used anecdotal evidence to expand on that initial hypothesis.
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Despite the ongoing pandemic, some companies are banning employees from masking
While some anti-mask policies have failed — a win for workers — there is a larger effort to ban masks in the U.S. on state and local levels. And more businesses may attempt to ban masks in the workplace even though these policies may violate laws that protect masks as accessibility devices. The Sick Times…
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Getting diagnosed with hypermobility can help some people with Long COVID. Upcoming guidelines may make it easier.
Current diagnostic criteria for hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (hEDS), a common comorbidity of Long COVID, are restrictive. The Ehlers-Danlos Society is developing new hEDS criteria that will be released in 2026.
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Long COVID is not FND, but some patients are getting diagnosed with it. Here’s what to do if it happens to you.
Some people with Long COVID are receiving potentially unhelpful diagnoses of functional neurological disorder (FND), a condition in which people experience neurological symptoms that cannot be attributed to known or currently identifiable pathophysiological causes.
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Violet Affleck advocates for children with Long COVID, masks, and clean indoor air at United Nations event
During today’s United Nations (UN) event “Healthy Indoor Air: A Global Call to Action,” advocate Violet Affleck spoke about how clean air and masking are vital tools to address the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
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Epidemiologist Caitlin Rivers shares advice for interpreting COVID-19 and other infectious disease data
To offer guidance on finding and interpreting infectious disease data during these confusing times, managing editor Betsy Ladyzhets talked to Caitlin Rivers, an epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins University’s Bloomberg School of Public Health and author of the popular newsletter, Force of Infection.
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