A few weeks ago, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) issued their official projection of just how much damage the combined effect of the House GOP's budget reconciliation bill (officially the "One B...

Background Even after a mild initial SARS-CoV-2 infection, a considerable proportion of patients experience long-lasting symptoms. However, there is scarce data on how post-COVID conditions (PCCs) are...

So why is it so hard to do? And how can we make it a bit easier?

This retrospective cohort study investigated whether Paxlovid (nirmatrelvir/ritonavir) use during the acute phase of mild-to-moderate COVID-19 reduces the risk of ischemic or hemorrhagic stroke occur....

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has shown "complete disregard for science” and should resign, says Georges Benjamin of the American Public Health Association.

Trump’s horrible, terrible, no good, very bad week

Some grants for Long COVID pathobiology research in the National Institutes of Health’s RECOVER program are among those rescinded by the federal government this week under a new order to cut all fundi...

And what would happen if we stopped hiding and showed the world the depths of our suffering?

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton released a statement Monday boasting about the arrest of a Houston-area midwife for illegally performing an abortion, marking the state’s first criminal charge for ab...

Laurel Marcinkus says she named the daughter who died in her arms Ember to denote a 'flame that refuses to burn out.'

Lisa McCorkell sheds light on the reality of Long COVID as an often invisible and episodic disability—one that disrupts millions of lives.

Some things live solely at the expense of others.

The founding director of the FDA’s Office of Biotechnology writes that new evidence suggests COVID may be a novel, additional contributor to the risk of heart disease, already the leading cau…

CDC’s National Wastewater Surveillance System, U.S. National trends

A new study that identified 475 patients with post-acute sequelae of COVID-19 (PASC), also known as long COVID, revealed that nearly 85% (403) of these patients had multiple COVID-19 infections over t...

USF public health professor Donna Petersen says collaboration was critical in helping community leaders respond to the pandemic. In hindsight, she says interventions like shutdowns were in place too l...