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A new study demonstrates that infection with Covid-19 appears to impact the risk of cardiovascular events up to 12 months post infection, even in those who weren’t hospitalized or had mild cases. Risks increased regardless of age, race, sex or other cardiovascular disease risk factors.

Covid-19 was linked with “significant” and damaging brain abnormalities even in mild cases, according to a study published in Nature on Monday, shedding light on what could be behind the lingering symptoms of long Covid.

“Although conversion therapy has been demonstrated to be ineffective, and often harmful, it is still being used in 2022,” wrote Dr. Johanna Olson-Kennedy, a medical director at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles.

Hospital design experts Teri Oelrich and Bryan Langlands explore ways to improve the efficiency and experience for nurses in hospital settings.

The global death toll from Covid-19 passed 6 million Monday, a bleak milestone as a growing number of countries around the world drop all pandemic restrictions and prepare to live with the virus.

Animal studies in monkeys and hamsters show that Covid-19 can inflict serious damage to the male reproductive organs. Damage includes low sperm count, shrunken testicles, erectile dysfunction, and decreased testosterone levels. Preliminary evidence suggests vaccination may prevent or limit damage.

Brain scans revealed a “significant, deleterious impact” associated with Covid-19, including an overall reduction in brain size, damage in regions linked to smell and greater cognitive decline compared to people who had not been infected.

Getting to and Sustaining the Next Normal: A Roadmap for Living with COVID is a comprehensive blueprint written by a who’s who of health, scientific, and policy experts to set us on the path to the “next normal” with Covid-19, lest we develop a collective amnesia during this Omicron wave respite.

In an exclusive excerpt from Moonshoot, Dr. Albert Albert Bourla recalls the fraught diplomacy with Jared Kushner to distribute the Covid-19 shot at warp speed to America first—and then the rest of the world.

Homeward will provide mobile services and technologies designed for low bandwidth internet to better penetrate into rural markets.