
Research updates for the week of August 20 include Long COVID in children (one new study, one that was retracted!), and the symptom of internal tremors.

The first few weeks of fifth grade were going smoothly for my ten-year-old daughter, until one evening when I found her lying still on the couch, flat on her tummy, not moving, nor uttering a single word. I called out her name a few times but got no response. I walked over to her, touched…

Research updates for the week of May 7 include brain inflammation, Long Covid in children, and more data on metformin and Covid-19.

Last week, researchers from the National Institutes of Health’s RECOVER consortium had a major review paper about Long Covid in children published in the journal Pediatrics. The paper explores what researchers have learned about how this disease can impact children, including estimates of how many children may be impacted — up to 5.8 million in…
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