Results from the first long-term follow-up study of an oral vaccine for recurrent urinary tract infections (UTIs) suggest that it “could be a gamechanger for UTI prevention,” according to consultant urologist Bob Yang, who co-led the trial. “It’s very exciting… for us it was almost magical,” said Yang, who works with […]
A new study shows that people with long COVID respond differently to COVID vaccines and that the condition may be caused by a dysfunction of the immune system — possibly explaining why some people experience symptoms for months while others recover and resume normal lives. The study compared people who […]
Immunocompromised patients can harbour persistent SARS-CoV-2 infection for up to 505 days, show data from a patient who had the longest COVID-19 infection on record, according to a UK study looking at evolution of the virus. An immunocompromised patient who was initially infected with a pre-Alpha variant (most likely the […]
On Dec. 8, 2019, the accountant began to feel ill. He did not frequent Wuhan’s Huanan seafood market, he would later tell World Health Organization experts investigating the coronavirus’s origin. He preferred the RT-Mart near his home on the eastern bank of the Yangtze River — a sleek, multistory supermarket where […]
A 68-year-old woman with COVID-19, who has been in intensive care in an Illinois hospital for a month, started receiving the controversial drug ivermectin (Stromectol) this week after her family sued the hospital to have someone administer it, according to a report in the Chicago Tribune. Nurije Fype’s daughter, Desareta, filed suit against […]
