Pediatric ID News

Over the last decade, there have been several updates to pneumococcal vaccinations in adolescents and adults, often leading to confusion among health care providers.

Lower vaccination rates led to a surge in cases of one type of vaccine-derived polio last year, according to a report published Thursday in MMWR.

Pediatric asthma diagnoses decreased by more than 50% during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to findings published in Respiratory Research.

The medical world has to overcome the perception that children are not susceptible to long COVID, physicians said during a U.S. News and World Report webinar on the topic.

There has been a rebound in cases of tuberculosis in the United States, according to the CDC, with the largest increase occurring among children aged 4 years or younger.

Two phase 3 trials found that lebrikizumab was effective against moderate-to-severe atopic dermatitis in adolescents and adults, researchers reported in The New England Journal of Medicine.

My journey in infectious diseases started out with an intense hatred and utter confusion.

Researchers estimated that more than half of children aged 9 to 13 in the U.S. Virgin Islands have been previously infected with dengue virus, making them eligible for vaccination, according to findings published in MMWR.

A decades-long study that enrolled participants in the 1940s found that contracting a lower respiratory tract infection in early childhood was associated with a higher risk for premature death from respiratory disease in adulthood.

The FDA said children aged 6 months to 4 years who completed a three-dose series of Pfizer-BioNTech’s monovalent COVID-19 vaccine can now receive the company’s bivalent booster under an expanded emergency use authorization.