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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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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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Experts call new Canadian Long COVID guidelines “contradictory” and “deeply concerning”
Guidelines recommend exercise and therapy as treatments, following attempted influence from Paul Garner.
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Emergency departments aren’t trained for Long COVID — and patients are paying the price
What do you call a system that doesn’t believe you’re sick until you’re dying? While emergency clinicians are trained to handle acute medical situations, many lack even a basic understanding of Long COVID and related diseases, such as myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME).
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Research updates, May 13
The Bateman Horne Center and Open Medicine Foundation recently released a highly anticipated ME and Long COVID clinical care guide. The 96-page guide has been praised by many in the community as a useful tool for clinicians, patients, and their families.
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Letter to the editors: The University of Washington’s Long COVID clinic
In February, The Sick Times published a story highlighting how educating primary care doctors about Long COVID could help address some of the challenges people face in finding healthcare for the disease. The story focused on the University of Washington (UW)’s Long COVID clinic as an example of a center working to train doctors, and…
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A lack of provider literacy is straining people with Long COVID. Training programs for doctors could help.
Across the board nationally, primary care providers are largely uneducated on Long COVID, and typically don’t have the time or expertise to appropriately treat it. But some medical institutions are trying to address this knowledge gap through new training programs and resources to get clinicians up to speed.
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Without clear clinical guidelines in México, people with Long COVID face gaslighting and erasure
The only explanation Jacqueline Ventura can think of is Long COVID, also called COVID persistente in México. But though Ventura accrued a hodgepodge of symptoms for two years after getting reinfected with SARS-CoV-2, doctors never diagnosed her with the disease. Every symptom had an alternate explanation. Like many around the world with Long COVID, the…
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“Really pissed off”: Cochrane receives backlash from advocates and experts after abandoning ME/CFS review
For decades, Cochrane — formerly called the Cochrane Collaboration — has been known internationally for its systematic reviews of medical treatments and interventions. Now the U.K.-based charity is under fire for its clumsy handling of a thorny issue: the status of a flawed 2019 review of exercise therapy for myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS).
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Long COVID Essentials: New resources published
We are thrilled to release the next batch of resources in our Long COVID Essentials series, featuring 32 new sheets! Our first batch of resources in Spanish is now live, along with the remaining English resources. Long COVID Essentials is a collaboration between Long COVID Justice and The Sick Times. The series includes 30+ resource…
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