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Yale's Center for Infection & Immunity, directed by Akiko Iwasaki, PhD, will lead the funded research.
- January 23, 2024Source: The New Yorker
People with post-viral illnesses often feel shut out of the scientific establishment. Two renowned Yale researchers are attempting to bring them in.
- January 03, 2024Source: Spiegel Gesundheit
Yale professor Akiko Iwasaki is one of the world's best immunologists. Here she reveals how she fights against toxic bosses, what could help those suffering from Long Covid and why she still wears a mask to this day.
- October 31, 2023
The term post-acute infection syndrome refers to chronic diseases that occur after an acute viral, bacterial, or parasitic infection, including chronic Lyme and myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). Yale School of Medicine is investigating the many questions surrounding post-acute infection syndromes in its new Center for Infection & Immunity.
- October 27, 2023
Yale School of Medicine has received major gifts to support Professor Akiko Iwasaki's research into Long COVID, chronic Lyme disease, and ME/CFS.
- September 11, 2023
The effects of infection don't necessarily end when the first symptoms subside. The new center will work to unravel the mysteries of lingering diseases.
- September 09, 2023Source: NPR
Harlan Krumholz, MD, SM, Harold H. Hines, Jr. Professor of Medicine (Cardiology), is seeing evidence of derangements in people with long COVID.
- August 27, 2023Source: NY Magazine
At Yale’s clinic, medical sleuth Lisa Sanders is trying almost everything.
- August 22, 2023Source: Verywell Health
Long COVID currently affects millions of people in the U.S. Symptoms can include brain fog, tremors, sleep disorders, and shortness of breath. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) and other academic medical centers recently launched clinical trials aimed at finding treatments for long COVID. Researchers think that there may be different causes of long COVID symptoms in different people, which is why they are conducting different clinical trials in many centers around the country.
- June 07, 2023Source: Yale Medicine
Yale’s Long COVID program aims to treat patients with lingering COVID-19 symptoms, such as fatigue, brain fog, and shortness of breath.