Category: Infectious diseases

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Respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, is a viral infection typically experienced early in life, and for most, isn’t a problem. Now more children seem to be experiencing RSV out of season, sometimes along with COVID infection. Helen Hughes, a pediatrician …

With the relaxation of COVID restrictions some common childhood viruses are making an unseasonal comeback, Elizabeth Tracey reports Read more »

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Long Covid is being used to describe continued fatigue, pain, and impaired cognition following Covid-19 infection. Peter Rowe, a ME/CFS expert at Johns Hopkins, says these two conditions may be one and the same, and there are at least two …

Will long Covid respond to strategies used for ME/CFS? Elizabeth Tracey reports Read more »

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If you’ve had Covid-19 and are still struggling with things like fatigue and pain months later, the virus may have triggered ME/CFS, the new term for chronic fatigue syndrome. Peter Rowe, a ME/CFS expert at Johns Hopkins, says the good …

Knowing that ME/CFS may be the real issue in so-called ‘long Covid’ is key to treatment, Elizabeth Tracey reports Read more »

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The chronic medical condition called ME/CFS, the new term for chronic fatigue syndrome, can be triggered by Covid-19 infection, even when the acute illness seems mild. That’s according to Peter Rowe, a ME/CFS expert at Johns Hopkins, who says the …

How might Covid-19 infection and ME/CFS be related? Elizabeth Tracey reports Read more »

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Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome, or ME/CFS for short, is a composite term for a constellation of fatigue, pain, cognition issues and other symptoms of unknown cause. Peter Rowe, a ME/CFS expert at Johns Hopkins, says this also describes many cases …

The condition many are calling ‘long Covid’ may look a lot like another chronic health condition, Elizabeth Tracey reports Read more »

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Have you heard of the ‘nicotine hypothesis’? That’s the idea put forward by supposed scientific studies that somehow nicotine helped protect people from severe Covid-19 disease. Michael Blaha, a cardiologist at Johns Hopkins and tobacco cessation advocate, says there’s no …

Is it possible nicotine has some benefit in Covid-19? Elizabeth Tracey reports Read more »

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What helps people be less susceptible to Covid-19 infection and severe illness? Several recently published scientific papers appear to support the so-called ‘nicotine hypothesis,’ suggesting that nicotine may be beneficial. Micheal Blaha, a cardiologist at Johns Hopkins and tobacco cessation …

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