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Abstract Susceptibility-Weighted Magnetic Resonance Imaging Highlights Brain Alterations in COVID Survivors PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of COVID-19 on the human brain using susceptibility weighted imaging (SWI). We hypothesized that the COVID recovered...

Patients without fibromyalgia have chronic pain:

Emerson Wheeler: We are failing the many people struggling with long Covid https://vtdigger.org/2022/11/21/emerson-wheeler-we-are-failing-the-many-people-struggling-with-long-covid/

Yes, I can understand that upsetting a doctor may be counter productive and backfire. But I don't see the point of avoiding to tell the blunt truth to protect any quack's feeling .

So telling. It's all about the doctor, their life, their stress, the heartsink patient the poor physician has to deal with. The "functional" patient is just another annoyance that they need to get rid of, with an appearance of humanity to let the doctor think they are caring.

The first step to improve communication could be to throw away the whole concept of MUS and all its avatars.

The fundamental thing that helped me to make sense of my experience was to realise how dysfunctional medecine is, and try to get my head around it.

Is knowing what mediates effects of a treatment that "may be helpful"* according to the abstract of the study helpful? *and not effective if you look a bit closer according to Tuller and Tack

Now published in Nature: Acute and postacute sequelae associated with SARS-CoV-2 reinfection https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-022-02051-3

This is insulting, patronising and telling.

https://retractionwatch.com/2022/11/09/pain-researchers-lose-three-papers-after-cochrane-group-questioned-data/

My bet is that pacing is defined very differently from one study to another...

Abstract Background Brain 18F-FDG PET imaging has the potential to provide an objective assessment of brain involvement in post-COVID-19 conditions but previous studies of heterogeneous patient series yield inconsistent results. The current study aimed to investigate brain 18F-FDG PET findings...

Will the objective outcomes last till the end of the trial?

Graphic summary of of the key messages highlighted in the paper positioning Long COVID as a global health concern. https://jogh.org/2022/jogh-12-03067

The tweet is in German, but the drawing in English :)

The LC survival guide is a a peer-to-peer advice book, edited by Fiona Lowenstein. https://theexperimentpublishing.com/catalogs/fall-2022/long-covid-survival-guide/ Events will take place for its release (one of which will be hosted by @dave30th )

Even a mild case of COVID can put you at higher risk for blood clots and death, according to a new study Erin Prater Article in Fortune

ABSTRACT Objective To examine association of COVID-19 with incident cardiovascular events in 17 871 UK Biobank cases between March 2020 and 2021. Methods COVID-19 cases were defined using health record linkage. Each case was propensity score-matched to two uninfected controls on age, sex...