A longitudinal study reveals that distinct gut microbiome profiles during acute SARS-CoV-2 infection can predict long COVID risk, offering insights into symptom clusters and potential biomarkers.

Millions of people worldwide continue to experience lingering health problems long after recovering from an initial infection—a group of conditions now known as post-acute infection syndromes (PAISs), ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In last month’s editorial — “Infection-associated chronic conditions: Why aren’t we talking about these ...

In recent years, doctors and scientists are increasingly studying long-lasting illnesses that begin after someone recovers from an infection. Two of the most well-known examples are long COVID and ...

According to a US cross-sectional study, every fifth hospital patient with a respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection develops an acute cardiovascular event. For patients with a preexisting ...

Inflammation resulting from a viral infection has traditionally been thought to cause acute myocarditis, which can lead to fatal heart arrhythmias in otherwise healthy young adults. Now, a new study ...

Long COVID brain fog is an inflammatory condition and is not "all in your head." Source: Mel Lituañas / Unsplash Long COVID has the biological signature of an acute infection in the brain, according ...

For the first time since the pandemic, progress is being made in decreasing healthcare-associated infections at acute care hospitals, according to a new CDC report. Between 2021 and 2022, adverse ...

ORLANDO -- Challenging medical dogma, the use of intravenous (IV) iron therapy for hospitalized patients with iron deficiency anemia dealing with acute infections was associated with a reduced risk ...

A case of a 45-year-old construction worker with a history of intravenous drug use, homelessness, and occasional alcohol and tobacco use.