Practical Emergency Medicine

Practice Essentials Encephalitis presents as diffuse or focal neuropsychological dysfunction. Although it primarily involves the brain,...

Nirmatrelvir is an orally bioavailable protease inhibitor that is active against MPRO, a viral protease that plays an essential role in...

Remdesivir is a nucleotide prodrug of an adenosine analog. It binds to the viral RNA-dependent RNA polymerase and inhibits viral...

Nirmatrelvir is an orally bioavailable protease inhibitor that is active against MPRO, a viral protease that plays an essential role in...

Background Hepatitis, a general term referring to inflammation of the liver, may result from various causes, both infectious (ie, viral,...

Background Adenovirus, a DNA virus, was first isolated in the 1950s in adenoid tissue–derived cell cultures, hence the name. These...

A worldwide outbreak of acute, severe hepatitis in children has made headlines recently. This is in part because the precise cause has...

Practice Essentials Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a blood-borne virus typically transmitted via sexual intercourse, shared...

Incident Lead Incident Director Health Protection Teams are asked to share this BN with Local Authority Directors of Public Health for...

Tuesday, 12 April 2022 The Public Health Agency (PHA) is working with counterparts in other jurisdictions on a UK-wide investigation...