Practice Management News

A longer interval between doses of COVID-19 vaccine in children aged 5 to 11 years was associated with higher effectiveness against symptomatic infection, according to a real-world study published in Pediatrics.

Though evidence for long COVID treatments is lacking, patients have been voicing a need for more understanding and better communication about their situation, according to an expert.

Nearly half of patients who received a diagnosis code of “unspecified mycosis” had positive laboratory test results for a specific fungal disease, with the most common being invasive candidiasis, researchers found.

A pediatric infectious disease expert made the case that the world needs a better pertussis vaccine.

An infectious disease consultation within 3 1/2 days of a diagnosis of Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia was shown in a study to increase adherence to quality care indicators and decrease hospital stays compared with a later consultation.

An FDA advisory committee recommend the approval of two respiratory syncytial virus vaccines for older people, who are among the most susceptible to severe disease, hospitalization and death from the infection.

Researchers reviewed a decade of maternal and congenital syphilis cases at a Brooklyn hospital and identified two variables associated with infection: racial identities other than Black or white and low socioeconomic status.

Financial incentive did not improve uptake of outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy among physicians, though uptake was already high before introduction of the incentive, suggesting that there was little room for improvement to start.

A WHO official speaking at the St. Jude/PIDS Pediatric Infectious Diseases Research Conference encouraged health care communities to “reach the children being left behind.”

The Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023, enacted on Dec. 29, 2022, includes the Secure 2.0 Act of 2022, which contains many provisions designed to expand retirement coverage, increase retirement savings and clarify retirement rules.