Can Breakthrough Infections Lead to Long COVID? For an Unlucky Few, Yes
When health experts talk about the remarkable efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines, they typically point to their ability to prevent severe disease and death. Fully vaccinated people can still get “breakthrough” infections from the virus that causes COVID-19—but compared to an unvaccinated person, they’re more than 10 times less likely to be hospitalized or die from their illness, according to U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) research. Officials often point to these impressive figures as evidence that we can tame COVID-19 into a mostly mild illness that behaves like a routine cold or f...
Source: TIME: Health - September 30, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jamie Ducharme Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 healthscienceclimate Source Type: news

We must fight gender inequality in healthcare research | Letter
Less is known about women ’s health than men’s – that’s because research on the former is underfunded, saysSilvia HummelJessica Nordell raises several important issues facing women and people from ethnic minorities in accessing quality healthcare (The bias that blinds: why some people get dangerously different medical care, The long read, 21 September). Another important factor is that less is known about women ’s health than men’s.A recent analysis of the US National Institutes of Health expenditure (by far the largest funder of health research in the world) concluded that the “NIH applies a disproporti...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - September 28, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Letters Tags: Women's health Society UK news Research funding US healthcare US news Gender Medical research Source Type: news

Emerging Data Point to Underlying Autoimmunity in ME/CFS Emerging Data Point to Underlying Autoimmunity in ME/CFS
Findings suggest that potential treatments targeting autoantibodies may alleviate symptoms for patients with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) .Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Pharmacist Headlines)
Source: Medscape Pharmacist Headlines - September 1, 2021 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Tags: Rheumatology News Source Type: news

Health watchdog PAUSES publication of NHS guidelines for chronic fatigue syndrome
Long-awaited guidelines from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence on ME have been postponed after disagreements about how the condition should be treated. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - August 18, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

NICE delays update to ME/chronic fatigue advice over lack of support
NICE has 'paused' publication of updated advice on ME/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), citing concerns that the guidance lacked the support of some patient and professional groups. (Source: GP Online News)
Source: GP Online News - August 18, 2021 Category: Primary Care Tags: Clinical News Source Type: news

Outrage at chronic fatigue syndrome advice update pause
NICE decided to pause the final update to its advice just hours before planned publication. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - August 17, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Study highlights possible link between 'long' COVID-19, chronic fatigue syndrome
" Long-haul " COVID-19 shares some symptoms and biologic abnormalities with chronic fatigue syndrome, researchers said in a paper published Monday by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. (Source: Health News - UPI.com)
Source: Health News - UPI.com - August 16, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

My hope vs. myalgic encephalomyelitis, a chronic neuroimmuno illness
I’ve managed the past 30 years without my health, but it seems impossible that I would have lasted this long without my optimism for better therapy — or even a cure. (Source: Washington Post: To Your Health)
Source: Washington Post: To Your Health - August 8, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Litsa Dremousis Source Type: news

How COVID-19 Long Haulers Could Change the U.S. Disability Benefits System
When COVID-19 began spreading in the U.S. in March 2020, McKale Santin was working at a nursing home in Burlington, Vermont. She and her coworkers didn’t yet know how deadly the virus would become, but she remembers feeling nervous as the first patients got sick and she was asked to examine them with only a surgical mask, not the more protective N95 mask that she wore to test for conditions like tuberculosis. One day, a patient pulled down her own mask to sneeze while Santin was conducting a respiratory assessment. Soon after, the woman became one of Vermont’s first people to die from COVID-19—and Santin...
Source: TIME: Health - July 20, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Abigail Abrams Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 feature Source Type: news

‘I felt betrayed’: how Covid research could help patients living with chronic fatigue syndrome
People with ME/CFS face debilitating symptoms but often feel dismissed by doctors. The focus on long Covid could help change that In the fall of 2016, Ashanti Daniel, a nurse in Beverly Hills, California, went to an infectious disease physician looking for answers about a weird illness she couldn ’t shake. After falling sick with a virus four months earlier, she still felt too tired to stand up in the shower.The appointment lasted five minutes, she said. The doctor didn ’t do a physical exam or check her vitals. His assessment: her illness was psychogenic, resulting from something psychological.Continue reading... (Sou...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - June 30, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Christina Frangou Tags: Coronavirus Health US news US healthcare Society Infectious diseases Science Medical research World news Source Type: news

We Used to Have a Lyme Disease Vaccine. Are We Ready to Bring One Back?
At my animal hospital in upstate New York, an epicenter of the U.S. tick epidemic, my dog Fawn lets out a whimper as the veterinarian injects her with her annual Lyme disease shot. I roll my eyes. She doesn’t know how good she has it. The injection means that if a tick bites her (and in rural New York, a tick always does), the creepy crawly will feast on dog blood that’s been supercharged with a Lyme bacteria-killing substance, and Lyme disease won’t be transmitted to Fawn. I wish I could be shot up with that superpower. Currently, there is no human vaccine for Lyme disease—even though more than two...
Source: TIME: Health - June 17, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Mandy Oaklander Tags: Uncategorized Disease feature Source Type: news

Why are women more prone to long Covid?
While men over 50 tend to suffer the most acute symptoms of coronavirus, women who get long Covid outnumber men by as much as four to oneCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageIn June 2020, as the first reports of long Covid began to filter through the medical community, doctors attempting to grapple with this mysterious malaise began to notice an unusual trend. While acute cases of Covid-19 – particularly those hospitalised with the disease – tended to be mostly male and over 50, long Covid sufferers were, by contrast, both relatively young and overwhelmingly female.Early reports of long Covid a...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - June 13, 2021 Category: Science Authors: David Cox Tags: Long Covid Coronavirus Infectious diseases Women's health Medical research ME / Chronic fatigue syndrome Pregnancy Microbiology Science Source Type: news

Sleep Apnea After COVID-19: Possible Cause for Chronic Fatigue? Sleep Apnea After COVID-19: Possible Cause for Chronic Fatigue?
Might sleep apnea account for the chronic fatigue that affects some patients after COVID-19 infection?Journal of Medical Case Reports (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - June 10, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Family Medicine/Primary Care Journal Article Source Type: news

Winner Art of Neuroscience competition announced
(Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience - KNAW) The eleventh edition of the Art of Neuroscience competition is won by Yas Crawford, an associate of the Royal Photographic Society and independent artist. With her artwork 'Cognition IX', Crawford looks at neurological interoception in myalgic encephalomyelitis (M.E) patients. The winner was chosen by a jury out of 293 entries from over 20 countries. (Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science)
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - June 10, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

Some Patients Are Reporting Long COVID Recoveries —But Experts Still Don’t Fully Understand Why
A few months ago, Lana Lynch had resigned herself to never getting better. Months after testing positive for COVID-19, she still felt fatigued, still got daily headaches, still had to carefully regulate how much she exerted herself each day. She was coming to terms with her new normal—until she didn’t have to. After receiving her second dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine in May, Lynch, a 32-year-old from Texas, noticed that she wasn’t quite so tired anymore. She could get through a yoga class without hitting a wall. “I felt like I had some energy,” she says, “but I didn’t...
Source: TIME: Health - June 9, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jamie Ducharme Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 Source Type: news