Gastrointestinal Conditions News

Combining seasonal vaccination and chemoprevention reduces the incidence of malaria by around two-thirds compared with either prevention method by itself, updated study results confirmed.

There has been an alarming increase in extensively drug-resistant Shigella infections reported through national surveillance systems.

The introduction of eight WHO-recommended vaccines into national immunization schedules slowed during the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers reported in MMWR.

Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center was ranked No. 1 on the U.S. News & World Report’s list of best children’s hospitals for the first time.

Stool culture “performed worse than would be expected” in diagnosing cholera during a period of waning cases in Haiti compared with PCR testing, according to the results of a small study.

The FDA has approved Linzess, the first therapy for pediatric functional constipation in patients aged 6 to 17 years, according to an agency release.

Roughly 40% of foodborne illness outbreaks in the United States are caused by a sick or infectious food worker despite most food establishments having policies against employees coming to work when ill, data show.

Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance forecasted that the global supply of oral cholera vaccine is likely to remain limited through 2025 if current outbreak trends continue.

A large study found that routine use of probiotics in neonatal ICUs reduced necrotizing enterocolitis but not mortality or sepsis in very-low-birth-weight infants, and the benefit was smaller than demonstrated by other studies.

CHICAGO — A diet rich in sweetened candy or drinks, exposure to antibiotics during early childhood and urban living were among risk factors for developing pediatric inflammatory bowel disease, according to data at Digestive Disease Week.