Pediatric ID News

I actually knew I wanted to study infectious diseases even before embarking on a career in medicine.

An FDA advisory committee on Thursday voted in favor of a respiratory syncytial virus vaccine that would be administered to pregnant people to protect their infants.

Children are falling far behind adults when it comes to testing and treatment for HIV, according to a new study published in Pediatrics.

A study of more than 14,000 febrile infants found that UTIs, bacteremia and bacterial meningitis were less common among those who tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 than those who did not, according to findings published in JAMA Network Open.

The public health and national emergencies declared by the United States in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic expire at the end of the day on May 11.

Cases of salmonellosis continue to cause significant morbidity in infants, according to an analysis of surveillance data published in Pediatrics.

An outbreak of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli in Tennessee was caused by raw milk consumption among members of a cow-share, according to a study.

WHO recently ended the COVID-19 global public health emergency — and the United States will soon lift its own emergency declarations — but questions about vaccination, especially for children, persist.

Most children diagnosed with Lyme disease recover within 6 months of receiving antibiotic treatment, regardless of their clinical presentation, according to findings from a study published in Pediatric Research.

WASHINGTON — Vaccine adherence was increasing among children in the United States in the years before the COVID-19 pandemic, but rates differed by socioeconomic status, researchers reported at the Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting.