Ziyad Al-Aly is chief of research and development at VA St. Louis Health Care System and a clinical epidemiologist at Washington University in St. Louis. Since 2020, the condition known as long ...

“Long COVID” means that people continue to experience COVID-19 symptoms for longer than usual after initially contracting the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Other terms for long COVID include post-COVID, ...

Opioid medications are typically prescribed to relieve pain associated with surgery, cancer, or injuries. While their short-term effects are relatively well known, the effects and risks of long-term ...

For the millions of people in the United States with long COVID, getting help comes down to where they live. Long COVID clinics have been popping up, but their accessibility and the kind of care they ...

In the spring of 2023, after her third case of COVID-19, Jennifer Robertson started to feel strange. Her heart raced all day long and she could barely sleep at night. She had dizzy spells. She felt ...

Adults with Long COVID can experience a slew of different symptoms, but some are more common than others. Intense fatigue, crashes after mental or physical effort, brain fog, shortness of breath or ...

There are many strange beauty ideas that are tied to aging. One of them? That women of a “certain age” should never have long hair. In the past, women may have felt obliged to limit their hair’s ...

When someone talks about a long face, they usually mean a face that expresses sadness, stress, or exhaustion. But this is different from long face syndrome, a medical condition that deals with the ...

Amanda Jackson has expertise in personal finance, investing, and social services. She is a library professional, transcriptionist, editor, and fact-checker. Net long refers to a condition in which an ...

A few winters ago, I was sitting next to a good friend on a tiny couch in an even tinier studio apartment, watching lovesick teens pine after each other on Netflix’s holiday film Let It Snow. When ...