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Clinical trials show promising results for sleeping sickness drug; The latest health stories from around the world

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A new drug that can treat human African trypanosomiasis—commonly known as sleeping sickness—with just one dose has shown promise in a clinical trial in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Guinea. www.science.org/content/article/news-at-a-glance-snags-emissions-monitoring-negotiations-biodiversity-sleeping-sickness? The rare disease is caused by the parasite Trypanosoma brucei gambiense, which is transmitted by the tsetse fly. Left untreated, it is …

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Pfizer set to test new COVID-19 pill on long-covid patients

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Plans for the first test of whether Pfizer’s COVID-19 pill known as Paxlovid can alleviate Long Covid were unveiled last week, as organizers said they expect to begin recruiting 1700 volunteers in January 2023. Patient groups and researchers have long sought such a trial to study whether suppressing the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus can reduce Long COVID’s debilitating …

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Study finds long-COVID eases with time

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Long COVID eases with time, according to a study that found about 1% of coronavirus patients had persistent symptoms for a year or more. In the first rigorous assessment of the magnitude of long COVID on a global scale, researchers found 6.2% of people who had COVID-19 in the pandemic’s first two years experienced at …

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Long-COVID devastating lives according to WHO

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Long COVID is “devastating” the lives and livelihoods of tens of millions of people, and wreaking havoc on health systems and economies, WHO director general, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has warned as he urged countries to launch “immediate” and “sustained” efforts to tackle the “very serious” crisis. www.theguardian.com/society/2022/oct/12/long-covid-who-tedros-adhanom-ghebreyesus? The world has never been in a …

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16 million Americans of working age report long Covid with four million out of work

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About 16 million Americans of working age have long Covid, and up to 4 million are out of work as a result, according to a report. Long Covid is affecting employment in other countries too: the Bank of England recently attributed the workforce shrinking by 440,000 largely to “increases in long-term sickness”.www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/25/long-covid-americans-workforce-brookings-report? But many workers are …

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Are Long-COVID and NCDs another Pandora’s box?

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Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) have been increasing at an alarming rate in India in the last few decades, overtaking infectious diseases as India’s most common causes of death. Now, some speculate that NCDs coupled with long-COVID could open up a Pandora’s box in the country. Government data shows that the proportion of deaths due to NCDs …

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‘Long COVID’ test devised by the University of Cambridge

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Many questions have thus far been left unanswered regarding the COVID-19 pandemic. Foremost among these is the question of how will so-called ‘long COVID’ affect us in the future? There remain many unanswered questions. How many individuals have been affected by the disease and remained asymptomatic is all but unknown, as is the length of …

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Long COVID remains a concern

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So-called ‘long COVID’, where survivors of COVID-19 continue to experience debilitating symptoms even requiring hospitalisation, remains a concern for India’s healthcare system. As The Economic Times reports, “doctors are dealing with [a] rising number of long Covid patients with symptoms like persistent body ache, low grade fever, lung fibrosis, pulmonary embolism and brain fogging in …

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Mild COVID-19 cases: still at risk?

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COVID-19 is often only measured through the narrow scope of its mortality rate. While the death toll is undeniably high, some disregard the disease due to the mortality rate now being between a range of one and two percent. However, some individuals, even those with mild symptoms, can experience lasting effects. So-called “Long COVID” is …

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“Long COVID” symptoms underlined by study

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Research has shone a light on “long COVID” symptoms, identifying stroke, chest pain, and blood clot-related complications as among the most serious adverse effects patients experience after recovery. Review authors of the study, published in Nature Medicine, highlighted the plight of so-called ‘COVID long-haulers’. “We felt that a review of all these possible issues would …

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16 million Americans of working age report long Covid with four million out of work

Are Long-COVID and NCDs another Pandora’s box?

‘Long COVID’ test devised by the University of Cambridge

Mild COVID-19 cases: still at risk?

“Long COVID” symptoms underlined by study

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