New York, June 9 (Ians) Taking a two-week course of metformin, a safe and affordable diabetes medication, after testing positive for Sars-CoV-2, may lead to 40 per cent fewer long Covid risk, according to a results of trial published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases journal.
Currently, there are no proven treatments or ways to prevent long Covid, other than reducing the risk of infection in the first place.
The phase 3 trial is the first to show a medication that can reduce the risk of long Covid when taken after testing positive for Sars-CoV-2, said researchers from University of Minnesota, US.
However, the results do not indicate whether metformin would be effective as a treatment for those who already have long Covid, they said.
“Long Covid is a significant public health emergency that may have lasting physical health, mental health, and economic impacts, especially in socioeconomically marginalised groups. There is an urgent need...
Currently, there are no proven treatments or ways to prevent long Covid, other than reducing the risk of infection in the first place.
The phase 3 trial is the first to show a medication that can reduce the risk of long Covid when taken after testing positive for Sars-CoV-2, said researchers from University of Minnesota, US.
However, the results do not indicate whether metformin would be effective as a treatment for those who already have long Covid, they said.
“Long Covid is a significant public health emergency that may have lasting physical health, mental health, and economic impacts, especially in socioeconomically marginalised groups. There is an urgent need...
- 6/9/2023
- by Agency News Desk
- GlamSham
“This is the greatest public health crisis in a century,” said Centers for Disease Control Director Robert Redfield bluntly on Thursday.
In fact, Redfield sees the coming flu season in Dickensian terms.
“It’s dependent on how the American people choose to respond. It’s really the worst of times or the best of times, depending on the American public,” he said, paraphrasing the opening of Charles Dickens’s classic A Tale of Two Cities.
The current pandemic, paired with the oncoming flu season, could create the “worst fall, from a public health perspective, we’ve ever had,” said the CDC director in an interview with WebMD.
On which side of the scale will the U.S. fall? Redfield said that depends on how consistently Americans wear face masks, stay 6 feet away from each other, wash their hands and avoid crowded gatherings.
“I’m not asking some of America to...
In fact, Redfield sees the coming flu season in Dickensian terms.
“It’s dependent on how the American people choose to respond. It’s really the worst of times or the best of times, depending on the American public,” he said, paraphrasing the opening of Charles Dickens’s classic A Tale of Two Cities.
The current pandemic, paired with the oncoming flu season, could create the “worst fall, from a public health perspective, we’ve ever had,” said the CDC director in an interview with WebMD.
On which side of the scale will the U.S. fall? Redfield said that depends on how consistently Americans wear face masks, stay 6 feet away from each other, wash their hands and avoid crowded gatherings.
“I’m not asking some of America to...
- 8/14/2020
- by Tom Tapp
- Deadline Film + TV
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