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The Association of Physicians of Great Britain and Ireland (AoPGBI) Annual Meeting will be held in Newcastle in May 2024, marking the first time in 30 years that the conference has been held in the city. The conference will focus on translational medicine and will feature world-class experts and emerging researchers. The program will cover a range of topics, including ageing and multimorbidity, rare diseases, novel therapies and diagnostics, and population health and data science. The conference aims to engage the scientific and public community, develop the careers of translational researchers, and share ideas and knowledge. [Extracted from the article]

The second review by Dr Gupta and colleagues of the Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research, West Bengal, India relates to the rarer occurrence of herpes simplex encephalitis in the post-acute COVID-19 infection period. Does anti-viral treatment in acute COVID infection decrease the risk of developing the Long-COVID Syndrome? It was W.B. Yeats, Nobel Laureate and renowned poet who once wrote: Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire As the academic home for Translational Medicine, the Association seeks to promote and sustain this lighting of that fire of scientific curiosity. [Extracted from the article]