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Medscape: 'Chronic Lyme Infection-Associated Illness in Urgent Need of Symptom-Targeted Treatments' 'The report also emphasizes the “unrealized opportunity” for the sharing of knowledge about other IACIes — such as long COVID and myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) — to...

NPR: 'NIH scientists call on director to protect biomedical research' 'In the Bethesda Declaration, the scientists say the Trump administration has "forced NIH, under [Bhattacharya's] watch" to "politicize" research, "stigmatize" studies about health disparities, and cut research into COVID-19...

University Hospitals: 'Igho Ofotokun, MD, MSc, FIDSA, Joins University Hospitals as Chair of the Department of Medicine and Physician-in-Chief' 'Drawing on his HIV experience, Dr. Ofotokun led the Atlanta hub of the NIH RECOVER initiative aimed at understanding long Covid. He also serves as the...

Sharing for relevancy 1) Boston Globe: '‘Unrecognizable and highly toxic’: NIH staffers speak out ahead of Senate hearing on budget cuts’ 'More than 300 staffers signed a letter to the NIH director urging him to stop politically motivated cuts and delays to research grants’ 2) AP News: 'NIH...

Harvard: 'Brain Barriers and Breaking Barriers' 'Neuroscientist Ya’el Courtney’s journey from poverty to PhD' 'Now a postdoctoral scholar in immunology and rheumatology in the Department of Medicine at Stanford University, Courtney focuses on uncovering the mechanisms underlying post-acute...

June 2025, PLOS One: 'Severity of acute SARS-CoV-2 infection and risk of new-onset autoimmune disease: A RECOVER initiative study in nationwide U.S. cohorts'

Bateman Horne Center: 'The Youngest Victims: A Mother’s Perspective on Long COVID Research and the ME/CFS Reality We’ve Lived' 'Part of the NIH-funded RECOVER initiative, followed over 1,000 children across 30 medical centers from March 2022 to July 2024.' 'This study represents a critical...

June 2025, Frontiers: 'Prevalence and severity of neurologic symptoms in Long-COVID and the role of pre-existing conditions, hospitalization, and mental health' By Avindra Nath, Brian Walitt, et al.

New York Times: 'Kennedy Says Healthy Kids Don’t Need Covid Shots. Is That True?' What’s the risk of long Covid? "Estimates of long Covid among children vary widely. But even at the lower end, studies show that around 1 percent of children in the United States, or roughly one million...

Financial Times: 'We are flying blind on disease surveillance' By Ian Lipkin 'Pandemic fatigue is real, but complacency is deadly. The next threat could emerge anywhere, anytime.'

BioVie: 'Long COVID Treatment Landscape and BioVie’s ADDRESS-LC Trial (Hosted on April 10, 2025)' 'BioVie hosted a virtual investor event on April 10, 2025 featuring key opinion leader (KOL) Lindsay McAlpine MD, Yale University, to discuss the unmet need and current treatment landscape for long...

6/2/25 - Conversations on Health Care: '400 Million+ People Globally With Long COVID: A Top Researcher Seeks Solutions' 'Dr. Igor Koralnik, the co-director of Northwestern Medicine’s Comprehensive COVID-19 Center, is one of the world’s leading Long COVID researchers. I the second part of our...

Pharmafocus Magazine: 'First official long COVID-19 treatment could emerge from the NIH’s RECOVER initiative' 'While this should lead to positive outcomes, the Long-COVID Alliance has expressed its concern that the NIH has not presented a solid timeline for the trial results, meaning it will be...

Excerpts from most recent RECOVER webinar on Understanding Metformin Use and Long COVID and ME/CFS Following COVID-19 Infection. Transcript here. Dr. Susan Vernon: " So, RECOVER provided this incredible opportunity because of the infrastructure, the longitudinal follow-up in the study, and the...

11/30/21, NIHCM: 'Long COVID: New Research and Supporting Patients' with Walter Koroshetz "At NINDS and NIH we've been working on another condition called myalgic encephalomyelitis / chronic fatigue syndrome and that has been very difficult to understand but the point to make here is that the...

Salt Lake Tribune: 'For Latter-day Saints afraid of getting sick at church, new guidelines are a breath of fresh air' 'Erin has a condition known as myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome, or ME-CFS'

4/30/25, "Physical Function Differences by COVID-19 Status: A Cross-Sectional Analysis from the RECOVER Adult Cohort" 'Physical function (main outcome) was assessed by number of repetitions on a 30-second sit-to-stand test (30STS)..from 11,578 participants...'

Forbes: 'How Does Long Covid Manifest In Infants And Young Children?' ''Long Covid symptoms are completely different in infants and toddlers, a recent JAMA Pediatrics study found.'' Thread on the study here

NIH Oral History: 'Michael Sneller (2021)' Sneller: 'I was nearly certain that given the nature of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic and the sheer number of people that were infected, there were going to be people who suffered long term effects of it, and it would be important to characterize those...

NIH Oral Interview: "Walter Koroshetz (2022)" Koroshetz: "The big surprise was that people who were never in the hospital were also going to those clinics because they weren't getting better weeks or months after COVID. People on popular social media were getting together and coined this term...