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Influenza in a paediatric population can manifest as a neurologic disease, particularly as febrile seizures, according to a study. Hospitalized children with neurologic manifestation of influenza (neuro-flu) experience several neurologic comorbidities, which suggest that this condition is driven by host-factors rather than by pathogen-factors.

Statin therapy, as well as triple antihypertensive combination therapy, may reduce the risk of recurrence in patients who have survived an intracerebral haemorrhage (ICH), according to new local findings presented at HKMF 2023.

Modulation of gut microbiome using the SIM01 synbiotic formula significantly improves neuropsychiatric and gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms of long COVID, according to results of the randomized, triple-blind, placebo-controlled RECOVERY study conducted by researchers from the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK).

Both the 2-dose and 3-dose vaccination schedules of the four-component meningococcal serogroup B vaccine (4CMenB) appear to provide protection against a panel epidemiologically relevant strains in adolescents and young adults, according to a phase III study presented at ESPID 2023.