Pediatric ID News

Outreach efforts in the form of text messages and phone calls succeeded in increasing COVID-19 vaccination among children with sickle cell disease, according to a study published in Pediatrics.

Roughly one-third of men globally have at least one type of genital HPV and one in five are infected with at least one high-risk HPV type, according to the results of a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Data from a new study suggested a new standard cutoff for determining urinary tract infections in febrile children undergoing bladder catheterization, according to results published in Pediatrics.

The CDC on Tuesday recommended the updated monovalent COVID-19 vaccines for people aged older than 6 months.

The FDA on Monday approved and authorized updated COVID-19 vaccines from Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech that target omicron XBB subvariants of SARS-CoV-2.

A pediatric health care system totaled more than $250,000 in antibiotic waste over the course of 2 years — most of it on discarded antibiotics, according to a study published in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology.

A study of 10-year follow-up data showed no cases of high-grade intraepithelial neoplasia and few cases of HPV infection among almost 1,300 boys and girls who received the 9-valent HPV vaccine, according to results published in Pediatrics.

I think it was in 1965 — so, a long time ago — that I finished my internship in the U.K. and wanted to do something a little bit more interesting than staying on the usual rotation through jobs.

For the latest story in our “Life during COVID” series, we asked experts to describe the impact the pandemic has had on patient health and the practice of medicine in the United States.

For the first time, many Americans will enter the fall with multiple options to protect themselves against respiratory syncytial virus, even young children.