Tag: COVID-19
One in three older people develop another health problem after Covid-19
The long Covid affects a significant proportion of those infected with the coronavirus. Data are still scarce for the older age groups, but a recent study indicates that 32% of…
70-year-old drug protects lungs from Covid-19
Disulfiram is prescribed to treat alcoholism, but researchers from the Weil Medical Collegein the United States, have also observed that it reduced the damage caused by the coronavirus in the…
Bipolar disorders, schizophrenia: an increased risk of severe forms of Covid-19
News Published 1 hour ago, Reading 2 mins. People suffering from mental illnesses are more at risk of being contaminated by Covid-19 but also of developing a serious form. For…
This new Covid-19 screening test developed by China is very reliable and ultra-fast
Since the start of the pandemic, none of the tests, whether PCR, antigen, saliva or self-test, have combined two essential properties to massively contain the Covid-19 virus: speed and reliability…
Vitamin D: do deficiencies increase the risk of severity of Covid-19?
News Published on 10/14/2020 at 10:39 a.m.update 17 hours ago Reading 6 mins. Preliminary research has shown that there may be a link between significant vitamin D deficiencies and an…
Covid-19: is the Omicron variant more resistant to surfaces and hydroalcoholic gel?
News Published on 02/04/2022 at 6:17 p.m., Reading 2 mins. According to Japanese scientists, the Omicron variant would be able to survive longer on the skin and on plastic than…
Covid-19: can doing too many nasopharyngeal tests be dangerous?
News Posted on 02/02/2022 at 3:01 p.m., Reading 2 mins. With the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, we are required to regularly perform nasopharyngeal tests. Can they be dangerous? What are the…
Covid-19: no authorization for Xenothera laboratory treatment
News Published 1 day ago, Reading 1 min. The National Medicines Agency and the High Health Authority (HAS) have announced their refusal to authorize the drug Xav-19 to the Nantes…
Post-Covid respiratory problems associated with routinely undetectable lung abnormalities
Breathless patients after Covid-19, however, show no problem on lung scans. But another more thorough examination revealed a dysfunction in the exchanges between the pulmonary alveoli and the blood. You…
Covid-19: rediscover your sense of smell in the cold thanks to cryotherapy!
News Posted 6m ago, Reading 1 min. Loss of smell, or anosmia, is one of the symptoms of Covid-19 infection. People who suffer from it are hampered in their daily…