Researchers say the lingering symptoms are often misdiagnosed by doctors and dismissed by employers or loved ones. The results can be devastating for patients and the economy.
An immune response in the nasal tract could explain the disease’s typically mild course in young children. Scientists hope to parlay the finding into increased protections for adults.
Pioneering epidemiology project WastewaterSCAN has added parainfluenza, rotavirus, adenovirus group F, enterovirus D68, Candida auris, and hepatitis A to the list of infectious diseases it can monitor for public health. Its monitoring roster already included COVID-19, RSV, Mpox, influenza A and B, human metapneumovirus (HMPV), and norovirus.
The mRNA vaccine is better than natural infection at revving up killer T cells to fight future infection, and better still if you get vaccinated before having had COVID-19.
Researchers have developed methods for using wastewater to track the levels of various respiratory viruses in a population. This can provide real-time information about virus circulation in a community.
In a trial led by Stanford Medicine researchers, more than half of patients with persistent smell loss saw improvement with injections of platelet-rich plasma.
The brains of adolescents who were assessed after the pandemic shutdowns ended appeared several years older than those of teens who were assessed before the pandemic. Until now, such accelerated changes in “brain age” have only been seen in children experiencing chronic adversity, such as neglect and family dysfunction.
A one-time test could predict which people hospitalized with COVID-19 are likely to worsen significantly, even if they were admitted with relatively mild symptoms, according to a Stanford Medicine study.
People with lower levels of an antiviral antibody as well as those with lung disease take longer to clear COVID-19 symptoms, say Stanford Medicine researchers.
Children as young as 6 months can now receive the Pfizer BioNTech and Moderna mRNA vaccines. Grace Lee, professor of pediatrics, answers parents’ frequently asked questions.
Stanford Medicine psychiatrist David Spiegel discusses the impact community grief has on our health and what we can do to care for ourselves and others.
Civil and environmental engineering Professor Alexandria Boehm discusses the system her team developed for monitoring COVID-19’s prevalence on campus, collaboration with public health officers, and the great promise that wastewater monitoring holds for anticipating the spread of other diseases.
Mindsets developed in the first 10 days of the COVID-19 pandemic influenced people’s emotions and health behaviors – and ultimately predicted their well-being six months later, Stanford psychologists find.
In a message to the community, Russell Furr, associate vice provost for environmental health and safety, shares an update on steps the university is taking to help minimize the spread of COVID-19.
A team of economists and political scientists that included Stanford’s Brad Larsen ran a large-scale advertising experiment in thousands of U.S. counties showing a video compilation of former President Donald Trump’s Fox News interview recommending the COVID-19 vaccine, leading to a significant increase in vaccinations.
In a new report, Stanford researchers outline steps that public health officials and the research community can take to curb the spread of vaccine-related mis- and disinformation online.
Stanford Medicine’s clinical virology laboratory has processed its 1 millionth COVID-19 test nearly two years after becoming one of the first academic center testing sites in the country.
Rituximab, a drug widely used in patients with lymphoma, blunts or eliminates the antibody response to COVID-19 vaccines if it is administered before them, Stanford researchers say.
