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TL;DR: In a Chinese trial of 108 breast cancer survivors, 7 weeks of daily self-acupressure eased a combined score for fatigue, poor sleep and low mood more than pressing fake points or usual care. The gains held 12 weeks later, though all results were self-re…
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TL;DR: A 2026 cross-sectional study in PLOS One found that people with post COVID-19 condition reported worse quality of life, fatigue, sleep, psychological wellbeing, and subjective cognition than COVID-19 survivors without the condition, while many objective…
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TL;DR: A 2026 narrative review in Clinical Drug Investigation argued that desvenlafaxine, a serotonin-noradrenaline reuptake inhibitor (SNRI), may be a first-line major depressive disorder option for selected patients, especially when fatigue, cognitive compla…
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TL;DR: A 2026 medRxiv preprint found that adults with multiple sclerosis showed accelerated long-term forgetting (ALF), meaning unusually steep memory loss over days despite normal early recall, on two verbal memory tests. Key Findings The long-delay test was…
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TL;DR: A 2026 study in Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment followed 55 adults after mild-to-moderate COVID-19 and found that neurocognitive test performance improved over time after both Alpha/Delta-era and Omicron-era infections. Key Findings 55-person lon…
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TL;DR: A 2026 cross-sectional metabolomics study in Brain, Behavior, & Immunity – Health found that serum and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) metabolite signatures differed in knee osteoarthritis and related to pain, fatigue, sleep, and pressure sensitivity, while C…
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A study found that adults recovering from their first COVID-19 infection more than 1-year ago have higher levels of fatigue and other chronic neuropsychiatric symptoms, influenced by vaccination status and socioeconomic factors. Highlights: Adults who had thei…
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TLDR: Objective olfactory dysfunction 1-3 months after COVID-19 predicts post-COVID condition (PCC) and reduced quality of life after one year, while subjective symptoms do not. Highlights: Individuals with objectively measured olfactory dysfunction shortly af…
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