Our study (NCT04800133) aimed to determine the safety and immunogenicity in patients with IEIs receiving a 3-dose primary series of mRNA vaccine BNT16...Read more

The high effectiveness of the third dose of BNT162b2 in healthy adolescents against Omicron BA.1 has been reported in some studies, but immune respons...Read more

香港大學的一項研究發現，接種新冠疫苗的兒童和青少年可以降低重症比率。該研究比較了輝瑞-生物NTech和科興疫苗在預防住院方面的有效性。結果顯示，兩劑疫苗都能提供很高的保護，輝瑞-生物NTech約為80%，科興約為90%。研究人員建議應該接種兩劑疫苗，而不是僅接種一劑。...

香港大學兒科臨牀助理教授陸俊文表示，港大研究發現兒童只要接種兩針，不論是科興或復必泰保護率均逾九成，可預防入院或出現中至重症，包括肺炎、腦炎等，避免插喉、氧氣治療及進入深切治療部。他提醒，若僅打一針，成效較低，家長應讓子女最少打兩針。香港大學感染及傳染病中心總監何栢良則建議，香港的抗疫工作重點仍然是...Read more

Parental vaccine hesitancy is a major barrier to achieving high vaccination uptake among children, particularly in young children during the coronavir...Read more

To our best knowledge, this article presents a novel data set on Hong Kong's adolescents' attitude towards the COVID-19 vaccination, excluding their p...Read more

Background: Children with special educational needs (SEN) are more vulnerable during the COVID-19 pandemic with risk of poor mental wellbeing and chil...Read more

根據香港大學兒童及青少年科學系講座教授、政府專家顧問劉宇隆的研究，輝瑞BioNTech和科興疫苗均可以有效減少兒童和青少年住院和嚴重疾病的風險。研究顯示，兩針輝瑞BioNTech的有效率為93.1%，兩針科興的有效率為95.8%。研究包括近70,000名已接種三針疫苗的兒童和青少年，其中沒有人在感染...Read more

For SARS-CoV-2 vaccines, efficacy data for BNT162b2 but not CoronaVac are available in adolescents. Phase II/III studies focused on neutralizing antib...Read more

The Department of Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine and School of Public Health at HKUMed are now launching the COVID-19 Vaccination in Adolescents ...Read more

Introduction: Two doses of inactivated SARS-CoV-2 vaccine CoronaVac cannot elicit high efficacy against symptomatic COVID-19, especially against the O...Read more

The mRNA-based BNT162b2 and inactivated whole-virus CoronaVac are two widely used COVID-19 vaccines that confer immune protection to healthy individua...Read more

Researchers from the COVID Human Genetic Effort, including HKUMed, have discovered inborn errors of immunity and auto-antibodies affecting type I inte...Read more

抗生素的臨床應用是為了預防細菌感染，殺死病人體內的細菌並抑制其生長。然而，服用抗生素可能引致不良反應，如紅疹、惡心、肚瀉等。醫生會謹慎考慮是否使用抗生素，以避免細菌耐藥性。當子女獲處方抗生素時，家長應按醫生、護士和藥劑師的指示服用，完成整個療程，不要保存剩餘抗生素，不要與他人分享處方抗生素，也不要服...Read more

香港大學的一項研究發現，接種兩劑輝瑞-BioNTech或科興COVID-19疫苗的兒童和青少年，對嚴重病例的保護率超過90％。該研究還發現，疫苗可以預防肺炎、腦炎，以及需要插管、氧氣治療和入住重症監護室的情況。該研究分析了在香港Omicron BA.2爆發期間接種疫苗的3至18歲兒童和青少年的數據。...

Background: Pediatric COVID-19 studies exploring the relationships between NPS and saliva viral loads, clinical and immunological profiles are lacking...Read more

OBJECTIVE: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has led to the ...Read more

Importance: Schools were closed intermittently across Hong Kong to control the COVID-19 outbreak, which led to significant physical and psychosocial ...Read more