Learn more about the ways viral infections can impact people with and without chronic diseases.

COVID triples the risk of a heart attack, researchers say, while flu quadruples the risk. Shingles, HIV, and hepatitis C ...

In the weeks following a bout of influenza or COVID, the risk of heart attack or stroke may rise dramatically, and chronic ...

Viral infections trigger inflammation that raises heart disease risk, study finds. Vaccination against COVID, flu and ...

Researchers also found that vaccination for flu, COVID and shingles might reduce heart attacks and strokes. For example, a ...

In the largest synthesis to date, researchers reviewed 155 studies linking viral infections, including influenza, SARS-CoV-2, ...

RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- NeuroHIV refers to the effects of HIV infection on the brain or central nervous system and, to some extent, the spinal cord and peripheral nervous system. A collection of diseases ...

The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the virus that causes healthy adults to become immunosuppressed, integrates its viral genetic code into the genome of the immune CD4+ T cells. While ...

A Houston nonprofit group is preparing to provide housing and social services to 50 homeless people this year, a prospect welcomed by local leaders working on a 10-year plan to end chronic ...

In the weeks following a bout of influenza or COVID, the risk of heart attack or stroke may rise dramatically, and chronic infections such as HIV may increase the long-term risk of serious ...