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Research updates, October 13
A new study found COVID-19 was linked to a significant increase in dementia in older people with type 2 diabetes. The retrospective study published in Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience included a cohort of nearly half a million people with documented SARS-C0V-2 infections.
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Biological pathways and mechanistic trials centered at new Long COVID conference in Amsterdam
Researchers, clinicians, and advocates gathered for the inaugural conference of the International Society for Long COVID and Post-Acute Infection Syndromes in the Netherlands in late August. The four-day event featured hundreds of presentations and posters about trials and disease mechanisms.
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Research updates, October 6
As many as 2.3 million new cases of cancer were triggered by viral infections worldwide in 2024, according to new research in The Lancet Oncology. French researchers analyzed a large database of cancer incidence from 2024, looking at specific diagnoses that were attributable to infections.
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Research updates, September 29
A small clinical trial found Remdesivir was safe for people with Long COVID and that some exploratory results warrant a larger trial. The U.K. trial, which included 73 participants who took a five day course of the intravenous antiviral COVID-19 drug, was published in Oxford Open Immunology.
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People with Long COVID demand pause of McMaster University clinical trial
The trial, run by researchers at McMaster University in Canada, is testing the Lightning Process, a pseudoscientific mind-body program that outside experts have heavily criticized.
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Research updates, September 22
A small study in NeuroImage: Reports has found more evidence of reduced blood flow to the brain of people with Long COVID. The authors concluded that this abnormality was linked with fatigue, after they assessed brain imaging results of 22 people with Long COVID and compared them with 19 controls.
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Bezisterim may help with some Long COVID symptoms, drug’s developer reports in early trial results
While the phase 2 clinical trial results, shared by BioVie in a webinar on Tuesday, have yet to be peer-reviewed, investigators say they can inform a confirmatory phase 3 trial.
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Research updates, September 15
Repeat SARS-C0V-2 infections were linked to a higher odds of new health conditions, according to a new study in the Canada Communicable Disease Report.
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Department of Defense funds $8 million grant for Long COVID trials
A new U.S. clinical trials program called PROBE-PASC was announced on Friday at a Long COVID conference in Amsterdam. The program received initial funding of $8 million from a Department of Defense (DOD) grant.
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Research updates, September 1
People with Long COVID are at a higher risk for cardiovascular, renal, and pulmonary (CRP) outcomes, according to a large observational study published in Journal of the American Heart Association. The study was a retrospective study and assessed more than 2.6 million people who developed COVID-19, comparing about 158,000 people who had been diagnosed with…
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