The third British Paediatric Surveillance Unit (BPSU) survey of herpes simplex virus (HSV) infection in infants presenting before 90 days of age, reported in this edition of Archives, informs us that ...

On World Encephalitis Day, experts urge early recognition and timely treatment to prevent lifelong disability or death ...

South Carolina health officials are warning of "irreversible" neurological damage in children as measles-related hospitalizations climb in the state. Of the 876 confirmed cases in the state’s upstate ...

1 MBBCh (Wits), MMed (Wits), FCPsych (SA), FCNeuropsych South Africa Definitive management for autoimmune encephalitis includes first-line immunotherapy (corticosteroids, intravenous immunoglobulins, ...

Herpes is one of the most common viral infections in the world, yet it remains widely misunderstood. Caused by the herpes simplex virus (HSV), herpes exists primarily in two forms: HSV-1, commonly ...

South Carolina children who have contracted cases of the measles virus in recent months have also been affected by a worrying and sometimes deadly complication, the state’s epidemiologist said ...

A straightforward case of measles is nasty—but the disease’s complications are even worse. One of those complications has been confirmed in the ongoing, record-breaking measles outbreak in South ...

Some children affected by measles in the ongoing South Carolina outbreak have developed a serious complication of the disease called encephalitis, or swelling of the brain, state epidemiologist Linda ...

Researchers observed no significant difference in the primary outcome of verbal memory score at 26 weeks; there were 27 adverse events in 18 participants in the control group and 25 in 18 participants ...

The study included adults with HSV encephalitis admitted to UK hospitals who were randomly assigned to receive intravenous dexamethasone plus intravenous acyclovir or intravenous acyclovir alone ...

Dear Dr. Roach: My 28-year-old son is in the hospital. He hasn't been acting like himself for a few weeks (not sleeping nor eating well), and he suddenly had four seizures. The doctors are worried ...