Pediatric ID News

The risk for food allergy, asthma and allergic rhinitis was elevated among children who received antibiotics in early childhood, and risk was greater with five-plus courses, according to data published in The Journal of Infectious Diseases.

ORLANDO — Patient education and more effective communication can help doctors from feeling forced to prescribe antibiotics for patients who do not need them, SHEA Spring attendees heard at a session during the conference’s first day.

HONOLULU — The results of a large observational study provided more evidence that receiving antibiotics in the first 2 years of life can increase a child’s risk for obesity, researchers reported.

HONOLULU — New study findings provided more promising data for primary care-based telehealth.

Amid cuts to and cancellation of U.S. public health programs aimed at treating and preventing malaria infection, officials are scrambling to secure funds in order to prevent millions of cases and tens of thousands of deaths.

Partnering with dental clinics to offer HPV vaccines to eligible children and adolescents improved vaccination rates by more than 8 percentage points in 1 year, according to a study published in Pediatrics.

VIENNA — Interleukin-6 could help physicians diagnose sepsis early in children and pregnant women, according to a real-world study presented at the ESCMID Global meeting 2025.

VIENNA — A point-of-care lung ultrasound system connected to a smartphone combined with a suite of deep learning models outperformed human analyses as well as WHO requirements for non-sputum tuberculosis tests.

VIENNA — More than 3 million children died from antimicrobial resistance-associated complications in 2022 across the globe, most of whom lived in Southeast Asia and Africa, according to findings presented at ESCMID Global 2025.