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The approval of a new oral postexposure prophylaxis for COVID-19 marks a significant advancement in the disease's prevention ...

Rajkumar Dasgupta, MD, is the associate program director of Internal Medicine Residency at Huntington Health in Pasadena, California, and associate professor of medicine at the University of ...

Helen Branswell covers issues broadly related to infectious diseases, including outbreaks, preparedness, research, and vaccine development. Follow her on Mastodon and Bluesky. You can reach Helen on ...

Nothing about long Covid adds up. All of this is very strange. Stranger still are patients’ stories of astonishing recoveries from severe long Covid, achieved entirely outside mainstream medicine. The ...

Heterogeneous long COVID definitions across CDC, NASEM, and studies create downstream effects on diagnosis thresholds, treatment pathways, and outcome measurement, undermining equity and research ...

A boy who was placed in an induced coma because of a rare post-covid response has taken on a fundraising challenge to "give ...

Here's what to know about the reemergence of the COVID variant, Cicada. BA.3.2, nicknamed Cicada, first started infecting people in South Africa in late 2024, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease ...

Passenger traffic at Europe's airports fell in April for the first time ​since the post-COVID recovery five years ago, ...