NIH-funded study finds long COVID affects adolescents differently than younger children

Published by: National Institutes of Health
Published on: August 21, 2024

Scientists investigating long COVID in youth found similar but distinguishable patterns between school-age children (ages 6-11 years) and adolescents (ages 12-17 years) and identified their most common symptoms. The study, supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and published in JAMA, comes from research conducted through the NIH’s Researching COVID to Enhance Recovery (RECOVER) Initiative, a wide-reaching effort to understand, diagnose, treat, and prevent long COVID, a condition marked by symptoms and health problems that linger after an infection with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.

Children and adolescents were found to experience prolonged symptoms after SARS-CoV-2 infection in almost every organ system with most having symptoms affecting more than one system.

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pro-virus policies

The US Government Is Shutting Down A Key Covid Website

Published August 15, 2024

Published by: ¡Do Not Panic!
Published on: August 15, 2024
By Nate Bear

Tomorrow the US government agency responsible for biomedical and public health research, The National Institutes of Health, will shut down its Covid-19 ‘special populations’ website.

This site hosts a huge amount of information about how to treat covid and long covid in the immunocompromised and in people with HIV, cancer and similar immune supressing conditions – so-called ‘special populations.’

The site is going totally offline.

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vaccines

NIH announces launch of clinical trial for nasal COVID vaccine

Published July 2, 2024

Published by: CIDRAP
Published on: July 2, 2024
By Lisa Schnirring

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) yesterday announced the launch of a phase 1 trial of a nasal vaccine against COVID-19, which also marks the first National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) trial conducted as part of the government’s Project NextGen—an effort designed to advance the development of next-generation vaccines against the disease.

In an NIH statement, NIAID Director Jeanne Marrazzo, MD, said first-generation COVID vaccines have greatly mitigated the toll of the disease and are still effective for preventing severe illness, hospitalization, and death. She added, however, that they aren’t as good at preventing illness and battling milder disease.

“With the continual emergence of new virus variants, there is a critical need to develop next-generation COVID-19 vaccines, including nasal vaccines, that could reduce SARS-CoV-2 infections and transmission,” she said.

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cardiovascular disease

SARS-CoV-2 infects coronary arteries, increases plaque inflammation

Published September 28, 2023

Published by: National Institutes of Health
Published on: September 28, 2023

SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, can directly infect the arteries of the heart and cause the fatty plaque inside arteries to become highly inflamed, increasing the risk of heart attack and stroke, according to a study funded by the National Institutes of Health. The findings, published in the journal Nature Cardiovascular Research, may help explain why certain people who get COVID-19 have a greater chance of developing cardiovascular disease, or if they already have it, develop more heart-related complications.

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long COVID

Frustrating futility on long COVID

Published September 4, 2023

Published by: Star Tribune
Published on: September 4, 2023
By Star Tribune Editorial Board

So far, the National Institutes of Health’s progress has left patient advocates and some scientists underwhelmed. Accountability and oversight are needed.

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With new flurry of clinical trials, NIH finally seeks treatments for Long Covid

Published August 1, 2023

Science

August 1, 2023

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long COVID

Nouvelles études pour traiter la COVID-19 longue

Published July 31, 2023

Published by: La Presse / The Associated Press
Published on: July 31, 2023

The National Institutes of Health in the United States have begun a series of studies to test possible treatments for long COVID, a step eagerly awaited in the efforts of the United States to fight this mysterious disease that affects millions of people.

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