Long COVID
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COVID can mimic prostate cancer symptoms
“I had none of those previously reported experiences that could suddenly trigger a spike in PSA.”
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Inflammation and immunity troubles top long-COVID suspect list
“I think that it’s a much more complex picture than just inflammation, or just autoimmunity, or just immune dysregulation,” says expert.
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Without guidelines, docs make their own long-COVID protocols
Treating the condition requires equal combinations of skill, experience, and intuition. Doctors begin to cobble together treatment plans.
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‘A huge deal’: Millions have long COVID, and more are expected
More than a quarter say their condition is severe enough to significantly limit their day-to-day activities.
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I’m a physician battling long COVID. I can assure you it’s real
“I’ve also seen, firsthand, the frustration of navigating diagnosis and treatment. It’s given me a taste of what millions of other patients are...
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For many, long COVID’s impacts go on and on, major study says
“This infection has become so common in a community because it’s so mild and spreading so rapidly that we’re seeing more long COVID symptoms than...
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Epidemic of brain fog? Long COVID’s effects worry experts
“We need to be paying attention to this. What we’ve seen is really the tip of the iceberg.”
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How do you live with COVID? One doctor’s personal experience
Early in 2020, Anne Peters, MD, caught COVID-19. The author of Medscape’s “Peters on Diabetes” column was sick in March 2020 before state-mandated...
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Long COVID mimics other postviral conditions
“We think they are frighteningly similar, if not identical.”
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Long COVID’s grip will likely tighten as infections continue
“If we conservatively assume 100 million working-age adults have been infected, that implies 10 to 33 million may have long COVID.”
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Treatments explored to ease postviral symptoms of ME/CFS and long COVID
“There aren’t cures, but there are many management techniques to improve symptoms.”