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At the Asia Vaccines and Antivirals Summit (AVAS) 2025 held in Bangkok, Thailand, two expert-led sessions provided valuable perspectives on the expanding role of oral antivirals in COVID-19 management. Dr Daniel Griffin, an infectious disease specialist and Clinical Instructor of Medicine at Columbia University, New York, US, focused on protecting high-risk populations through the timely use of antiviral therapy. Complementing this, Professor Ching-Tai Huang of Chang Gung University and Memorial Hospital in Taiwan offered practical guidance on clinical management strategies, including patient risk stratification and therapeutic selection.

A team from the LKS Faculty of Medicine at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) has developed an innovative clinical tool to help physicians effectively identify intracerebral haemorrhage (ICH) patients who would benefit from early initiation of triple antihypertensive therapy to reduce the risks of ICH recurrence and subsequent strokes.

In patients with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation (AF), the best predictor of major bleeding was the HAS-BLED score, demonstrating similar efficacy to the DOAC score and superiority to the ORBIT score, suggests a China study.

One in 10 individuals hospitalized for a respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection has a concurrent acute cardiovascular event, and this number is higher than that observed among individuals hospitalized for a COVID-19 infection, according to a study from Singapore.

In the treatment of patients with resistant hypertension, amiloride is no better or worse than spironolactone at reducing home systolic blood pressure (SBP) levels, according to a study.

A new meta-analysis suggests that fasting before elective coronary angiography is not necessarily beneficial in terms of reducing adverse events (AEs) and may even reduce patient satisfaction.

Approximately one in six atrial fibrillation (AF) patients who sustained a stroke experiences another one within 5 years despite receiving modern preventive therapy, according to a systematic review and meta-analysis.