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24 January, 2024
Long Covid: NHS Legal Action Launched By Family Of Girl
The mother of an 11-year-old Aberdeenshire girl with long Covid has launched a legal action against their health board, in what lawyers claim is the first case of its kind in Scotland.
23 January, 2024
Dunedin Researchers Reveal Strong Link Between Long COVID And Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
A group of Dunedin researchers have found a strong link between long COVID and chronic fatigue syndrome.
23 January, 2024
Long COVID Creates Changes In The Blood, Aiding Detection, Reports New Study
An international team of scientists has found distinct changes in the blood of people with long COVID, suggesting a potential strategy to diagnose and perhaps treat a mysterious condition that takes many forms.
23 January, 2024
Patients, Experts Take Center Stage At Senate Long-COVID Hearing
Before the Senate's Health, Education, Labor, and Pension (HELP) committee Friday January 19, patients battling long COVID and the mother of a teen patient detailed the day-to-day struggles with the condition and the obstacles in getting care. Also, healthcare providers and researchers described the challenges in managing and studying a condition with a wide spectrum of health impacts and debilitating effect on patients. Today's hearing attracted a large crowd of patients and their advocates that spilled over into a second room.
22 January, 2024
Pain And The Biochemistry Of Fibromyalgia: Patterns Of Peripheral Cytokines And Chemokines Contribute To The Differentiation Between Fibromyalgia And Controls And Are Associated With Pain, Fat Infiltration And Content
This explorative study analyses interrelationships between peripheral compounds in saliva, plasma, and muscles together with body composition variables in healthy subjects and in fibromyalgia patients (FM). There is a need to better understand the extent cytokines and chemokines are associated with body composition and which cytokines and chemokines differentiate FM from healthy controls.
22 January, 2024
Woman With Disability Hasn't Had Heat At Her Detroit Apartment For Nearly A Week
DETROIT (WXYZ) — As the feels-like temperatures dip into the negatives this week, multiple units at the Russell Woods Apartments in Detroit have not had heat since last Friday. Tiffany Shoate has fibromyalgia, chronic pain that gets worse in cold temperatures. Her and about a dozen other tenants at the apartment complex have not had heat since the snow storm Friday. That's five days that she's had to use multiple space heaters and heat from her oven to stay warm.
22 January, 2024
Study Finds Low-Dose Naltrexone Works No Better Than Placebo
In recent years, low-dose naltrexone (LDN) has grown in popularity as a treatment for fibromyalgia and other chronic pain conditions. Although naltrexone is only FDA-approved for the treatment of substance use disorders, a growing number of patients and providers say low doses of naltrexone prescribed off-label can be effective in relieving pain. A new study by Danish researchers is casting doubt on the some of those claims, finding that LDN works no better than a placebo in reducing pain for women with fibromyalgia. In their double-blind, placebo-controlled study, 99 adult women with fibromyalgia were randomly assigned to receive either an LDN pill or an identical-looking placebo daily for 12 weeks.
21 January, 2024
Life Derailed: Long COVID Still Gnawing At B.C. Long After Pandemic Fades
Long, slow path of a constrained self facing thousands in Canada dealing with lingering effects of the virus.
21 January, 2024
Cardiovascular Effects Of The Post-COVID-19 Condition
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, the new clinical entity of the post-COVID-19 condition, defined as a multisystemic condition of persistent symptoms following resolution of an acute severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infection, has emerged as an important area of clinical focus. While this syndrome spans multiple organ systems, cardiovascular complications are often the most prominent features. These include, but are not limited to, myocardial injury, heart failure, arrhythmias, vascular injury/thrombosis and dysautonomia. As the number of individuals with the post-COVID-19 condition continues to climb and overwhelm medical systems, summarizing existing information and knowledge gaps in the complex cardiovascular effects of the post-COVID-19 condition has become critical for patient care. In this Review, we explore the current state of knowledge of the post-COVID-19 condition and identify areas where additional research is warranted. This will provide a framework for better understanding the cardiovascular manifestations of the post-COVID-19 condition with a focus on pathophysiology, diagnosis and management.
21 January, 2024
WOND-EAR-FUL Who Is Giselle Boxer And What Does Her Company Acu Seeds Make?
Giselle Boxer is a business owner from Sheffield, England. The entrepreneur started her own business, Acu Seeds, after a battle with chronic fatigue. Boxer, who used to work at an advertising agency, is one of the contestants on the 2024 series of BBC's Dragons' Den. Ahead of her episode, Boxer opened up about her experience on the reality TV show.
