Pediatric ID News

U.S. officials on Tuesday disclosed a plan to extend the nation’s supply of monkeypox vaccine by allowing providers to deliver it in fractional doses, and to open up monkeypox vaccination to children.

Healio spoke with Alanna E. Levine, MD, a spokesperson for the AAP and pediatrician in Rockland County, about the measures being taken locally to address the threat of polio and what providers can do to protect their patients.

Long COVID increases children’s risk for several serious conditions, although the conditions remain rare, according to findings reported in MMWR.

Exposure to young children was associated with less severe COVID-19 illness among adults, according to a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.

Early recognition and prompt administration of antibiotics are important factors in managing neutropenic enterocolitis, a common and potentially life-threatening condition that can befall pediatric patients with cancer, a review found.

We spoke with Kristina Bryant, MD, hospital epidemiologist at Norton Children’s Hospital and professor of pediatrics in the division of pediatric infectious diseases at the University of Louisville, regarding symptoms, misconceptions and ways to protect children against monkeypox.

Nearly 6% of children who tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 after seeking care at an emergency department reported lasting effects from their infection, according to the results of a large study of pediatric long COVID published Friday.

I’ve wanted to be a doctor, to help people, since I was 5 years old.

Around 18 months after the first adults began receiving COVID-19 vaccines in the United States, the FDA authorized and the CDC recommended vaccines for children as young as age 6 months.

The CDC recently issued a health advisory alerting clinicians that parechovirus, a common childhood pathogen, is circulating in the United States.