Practice Management News

NEW YORK — The United States has hit a 10-year high in drug shortages, according to a presenter at the Infectious Diseases in Children Symposium.

NEW YORK — In this video from the Infectious Diseases in Children Symposium, Ashley N. Gyura, DNP, CPNP-PC, APRN, discusses the important role pediatricians and nurses play in answering families’ questions about travel medicine.

NEW YORK — In this video, Matthew Might, PhD, discusses his keynote address at the Infectious Diseases in Children Symposium on how artificial intelligence could “shift” practice in pediatric infectious diseases.

NEW YORK — In this video from the Infectious Diseases in Children Symposium, Red Book editor David W. Kimberlin, MD, talks about updates coming to the 2024 edition of the AAP’s guide for pediatric infectious diseases.

NEW YORK — In this video from the Infectious Diseases in Children Symposium, Tina Q. Tan, MD, FAAP, FIDSA, FPIDS, discusses the importance of pediatricians adopting new pneumococcal vaccines into practice to optimize patient coverage.

NEW YORK — An expert encouraged providers to “double our efforts” to prevent congenital syphilis.

NEW YORK — The CDC this week announced the release of more than 77,000 additional doses of nirsevimab to address an ongoing shortage of the monoclonal antibody in the United States.

Each year from Nov. 18 to Nov. 24, WHO observes World AMR Awareness Week, a global campaign to raise awareness and understanding of antimicrobial resistance and promote best practices among One Health stakeholders.

In-house PCR testing on admission for the detection Candida auris enabled researchers to identify more cases on admission and lowered rates of hospital-onset C. auris, a recent study showed.

Older veterans were slightly more likely to be hospitalized and more than twice as likely to die in the 3 days after testing for norovirus compared with those who testing negative, according to study results.