by sagesgroup | Jul 7, 2024 | Coronavirus, Data, Health, long Covid, Medicine, Mind and Body, Science, Syndicated, The Conversation
— chuchart duangdaw/Moment/Getty Images Throughout the pandemic, one of the key questions on everyone’s mind was why some people avoided getting COVID while others caught the virus multiple times. Through a collaboration between University College London, the Wellcome...by sagesgroup | Oct 8, 2023 | Biology, Coronavirus, Health, homepage, Mind and Body, Science, Syndicated, Undark Magazine
— Maskot/Maskot/Getty Images Growing up, Julian Meeks knew what a life without a sense of smell could look like. He’d watched this grandfather navigate the condition known as anosmia, observing that he didn’t perceive flavor and only enjoyed eating very salty or meaty...by sagesgroup | Oct 3, 2023 | Coronavirus, Health, homepage, hp-latest, Medicine, Mind and Body, Science
— Shutterstock On October 2, Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman jointly received the Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology 2023 for their discoveries of how mRNA interacts with the immune system, which ultimately laid the foundation for vaccines against Covid-19. While...by sagesgroup | Aug 22, 2023 | Biology, Coronavirus, Health, homepage, hp-latest, long Covid, Mind & Body news, Mind and Body
Three years into the ongoing pandemic, our understanding of Covid-19’s long-term effects continues to unfold. While we’ve known that patients with preexisting conditions like high blood pressure and asthma were at higher risk for more severe symptoms and death, we’re...by sagesgroup | Jan 23, 2023 | Biology, Coronavirus, Covid-19, Covid-19 Vaccine, Genetics, Health, Medicine, omicron, Public Health, Science, Syndicated, The Conversation
Despite intensive public health efforts to grind the Covid-19 pandemic to a halt, the recent emergence of the highly transmissible, extensively drug-resistant, and profoundly immune system-evading XBB.1.5 SARS-CoV-2 subvariant is putting the global community on edge....