/oss/taxonomy/term/4104/all en /oss/article/covid-19-medical/potential-treatment-prevent-long-covid <hr /> <p><em>This article was originally posted in the</em> <a href="https://montrealgazette.com/opinion/columnists/christopher-labos-a-potential-treatment-to-prevent-long-covid"><em>Montreal Gazette.</em></a></p> <hr /> <p>The cruelty of COVID is that many people recover only to be left with long-term symptoms. What we have taken to calling long COVID seems to affect about 10 per cent of people post infection. Symptoms tend to resolve slowly over months, if not years, but apart from suggesting patience there was not much medicine could offer. Until now.</p> Fri, 16 Jun 2023 10:00:00 +0000 Christopher Labos MD, MSc 9543 at /oss /oss/article/health-nutrition-pseudoscience/fountain-youth-and-alligators <p>Funny the things one remembers. Like “Don’s Fountain of Youth,” a short cartoon I saw some time back in the 60s. “Don” was Donald Duck and the story was all about taking his nephews on a Florida vacation. The “kids” are more interested in reading comics than the sights that Donald is pointing out, at least until they chance upon a pond with a sign "Mistaken for the Fountain of Youth by Ponce de Leon 1512." Donald decides to have a little fun with his nephews and removes the “mistaken for” part of the sign.</p> Tue, 15 Oct 2019 17:06:33 +0000 Joe Scwarcz PhD 7962 at /oss