In the News
Keep up to date with the latest news articles from around the world.
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08 January, 2024
Differences Between Patients With Chronic Epipharyngitis With And Without Previous COVID-19 Infection
Epipharyngeal abrasive therapy (EAT) is effective in patients with chronic epipharyngitis who previously had coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The study aimed to evaluate differences between patients with chronic epipharyngitis with (long COVID) or without a history of COVID-19 (non-long COVID).
07 January, 2024
Long Covid Patients’ Fatigue Is Biological: Dutch Research
Dutch researchers have discovered that persistent fatigue in patients with Long Covid has a biological cause – their muscle cells produce less energy than those in healthy patients.
07 January, 2024
"It Took 18 Months For Doctors To Figure Out My 'Unseen' Illness - These Are My Symptoms"
Elle spent almost two years in constant pain with no idea why, it wasn't until her fibromyalgia diagnosis that she found out what it was.
07 January, 2024
Superficial Love: Finding Purpose Through Debilitating Disease
Imagine what it’s like to wake up every morning, knowing you’ll have just 10% of the energy you once had. With your physical and emotional battery so low, it’s a challenge just to eat or brush your teeth. You seldom leave the house. It’s almost impossible to work. You think often of your old, “regular” life, when you traveled, hung out with friends, and got up the next morning to do it all again. Caroline Riddle Ranere doesn’t imagine that. It’s the reality of her life. And it has been for 17 years.
06 January, 2024
Gut Bacteria Transplant Offers Relief To Fibromyalgia Patients, Study Finds
Rambam Health Care Campus study shows treatment with gut bacteria reduced pain levels, fatigue and memory impairment, surpassing all previous treatments.
06 January, 2024
Enrollment Of Minorities In Fibromyalgia Trials Remains Low
Among trials performed in the United States and Canada, a significantly lower number of ethnic minorities were included in pharmaceutical studies for fibromyalgia compared with White participants, according to research published in The International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.
06 January, 2024
This Cellular "Powerhouse" Might Be Behind Long COVID Fatigue
We’ve all experienced the overwhelming fatigue following a strenuous hike or an intense exercise class. But for the millions of people worldwide living with long Covid, this exhaustion doesn’t fade once you catch your breath or take a rest. The why behind this post-exertional malaise is a puzzle scientists are still trying to crack. In a study published in the journal Nature Communications, researchers in the Netherlands point to the mitochondria, the cell’s energy powerhouse.
05 January, 2024
Long Covid Patients Risk Serious Long-Term Injury From Running Or Cycling
A new study helps to explain why people with long Covid can feel such high levels of fatigue.
05 January, 2024
Long Covid Causes Changes In Body That Make Exercise Debilitating – Study
Experts say severe muscle damage, mitochondrial problems and microclots may explain impact of working out.
05 January, 2024
Unearthing Connections: Long Flu, Chronic Fatigue, And Post-Viral Impacts
A reader’s chronic battle with severe fatigue, Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (PoTS), shortness of breath, sleep disturbances, brain fog, and neuropathy, which began after an upper respiratory infection two decades ago, raises pertinent questions about the long-term impacts of viral infections like influenza and COVID-19. This concern is echoed in a recent study published in the Lancet Infectious Diseases journal, which identifies a condition termed “long flu”. This condition, marked by persistent fatigue and neurological symptoms, is likely the aftermath of flu-like illnesses.
